You want to love Chicago baseball, but it won’t be easy
Your 2015 MLB preview edition is here, but we can't do that just yet. First, we have to acknowledge DePaul's latest coaching hire. A move that absolutely reeks of, let's...
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Loyola hoops closing in on bragging rights
Hold the phone, I was too hard on Illinois college basketball. Thanks to a 63-48 win over Seattle on Wednesday, your 1963 NCAA champion Loyola Ramblers have moved to the...
Illinois’ March sadness and other silly things
Oh baby, you're ready. You've got your brackets filled out, your money laid down, you're taking Friday afternoon off work, and you're all set to watch NCAA basketball through Sunday...
Warning: College hoops in Chicago still hard to stomach
March is here, the weather is warming up. That means it's tournament time here in Chicago. That also means it's time for our annual check-in of how our local college...
Coach Thibodeau must be so lonely at practice
Here's my imitation of Tom Thibodeau at Bulls practice. "Hello? (fading echo) ... hello ... hello." "Anybody here? Here ... here ... here." It's a good question. Derrick Rose, out....
No use denying it: The D-Rose we knew is gone
Your attention, please. I'm on vacation right now, living it up at a Motel 6 just outside Daytona Beach. Tonight I'll be helping myself to some HBO and perhaps head...
Dear Bears: Commit to fixing the defense
Commitments, commitments, commitments. Or in this case, noncommitments. It's been kind of fun watching John Fox and Ryan Pace emerge from the cocoon and appear at the scouting combine. Now...
Take youth sports off the pedestal already
Somewhere, Jackie Robinson himself is turning over in his grave. And somewhere else, maybe Bill Belichick is smiling. Everybody loses on this one. Jackie Robinson West, a team so lovable...
We might have to watch skiing now … or golf
And now we enter ... the dead zone. It's a dark period. Not easily managed. Essentially it's that time between the end of football and the reporting of pitchers and...
Chicago could use a little more Ernie Banks
We're going to say a proper goodbye to Ernie Banks. And we're going to do it by honoring his integrity and, more importantly, his best trait. Something that has vanished...