Women’s tackle football: Is it worth it?
The Chicago Force started the season 7-0. Two weeks and two losses later their season was suddenly finished — and they had a long, lonely trip home after losing in...
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She never threw in the towel
Last Saturday in the humid Kansas City twilight, Chicago Force quarterback Samantha Grisafe slouched on the bench, her long blond hair a sweaty tangle, red rings around her eyes, blood...
Force behind the Force
For the Chicago Force, Linda Bache serves as co-owner, general manager, head of marketing and public relations, chief financial officer, high priestess and hard-driving field boss. And until two years...
No fear of commitment
A football coach doesn't have much time to think about his feelings. It doesn't matter whether you're Bears coach Lovie Smith making millions or Chicago Force coach John Konecki making...
‘I know it won’t stop me from doing anything’
Katie Romano is new to the Force but has played with the D.C. Divas. This is an edited e-mail interview . What's your day job? Looking for job ... applying...
Hard hitters hit it off
Before their road game against the Wisconsin Warriors, whom they'd blown out 42-0 in their home opener, the players and coaches of the 2-0 Chicago Force insisted that weren't looking...
Women pay price to follow football dreams
This is supposed to be the season. After heartbreaking playoff losses the last two years, the 8-year-old Chicago Force is among the favorites to win the Independent Women's Football League...
Game Boy
Tom Chambers is a young graduate of Harvard who recently scrapped his job as an actuary to make a living playing online poker. But a new law threatens his livelihood....
Winter golf: Watch where you step
On a February morning in Chicago, there's just nothing like a round of golf. That's how some hardy Chicagoans feel. Writer David Murray has played almost every week this winter;...
My dad, a willing hostage of words
The poet W.H. Auden was once asked, "Are words all we have?" Of course not, he replied: "Words aren't all we have, but they're all we have to work with."...