TODAY’S QUESTIONS
1. Race to any Super Bowl: Lions or Bears?
Greenfield: Lions. The flight from Detroit to Super Bowl XXXIX site Jacksonville is slightly shorter.
Thompson: At full strength, the Bears have a better running game and defense. Look at the Ravens.
Ebersole: Detroit’s got all the mojo lately, but Joey Harrington is a (very) poor man’s Peyton Manning. Bears.
Whizzer: The Lions have more big plays in them than the Shakespeare Festival. I like their youth.
Bag Boy: Lions win back-to-back titles before Bears smell the playoffs.
TODAY’S QUESTIONS
2. Sammy Sosa’s future in Chicago?
Greenfield: Forget when he leaves, which will be after the 2005 season, his legacy is in danger. Nobody likes a quitter.
Thompson: Leave early. Show up late. He’s got a future as a CTA driver.
Ebersole: In the visitors’ dugout when the Dodgers come to town. OK, not really. He’s staying.
Whizzer: I think he hits No. 600 at Wrigley . . . as a Devil Ray.
Bag Boy: He’ll never win a World Series here.
TODAY’S QUESTIONS
3. How unimportant is the NHL lockout?
Greenfield: So unimportant that many of you just said out loud, “There’s an NHL lockout?”
Thompson: Very important. What will the circus do for clowns now when it comes to the UC?
Ebersole: The what lockout?
Whizzer: It teaches young hockey players the value of a buck.
Bag Boy: Very important to my marriage.
TODAY’S QUESTIONS
4. Who plays for the BCS title game?
Greenfield: College football is a tiresome exhibition season, and the BCS “title” game settles nothing. I’ll go with McNeese State and Richmond.
Thompson: You can’t spell BCS without “Cubs.” But you can spell “title.”
Ebersole: USC and Georgia–no, Louisville and Princeton in a matchup of unbeatens.
Whizzer: I like USC to win out for the next decade. This year, Miami pays.
Bag Boy: The next Bears backup quarterback.
TODAY’S QUESTIONS
5. Your wedding gift for Tiger and Elin is …
Greenfield: $100. No, wait. I hear he’s not doing very well. $125.
Thompson: A prenup.
Ebersole: A short game. Yeah, I said it …
Whizzer: My adoption papers.
Bag Boy: My 2004 Bears season tickets.
