Former Cub throws serious Twitter heat in retirement
Soft-tossing former Cubs pitcher Dan Haren may only be able to throw a baseball 88 mph, nowhere near the fastest in the majors, but on Monday morning Haren brought some...
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With top cop out, time for Mayor Emanuel to step down
Chicago is broken, and it's becoming increasingly clear that Rahm Emanuel is not the right person to fix our beloved city. On Tuesday morning, Mayor Emanuel dismissed Chicago Police Superintendent...
The boozy ‘Blackout Wednesday’ is a wake-up call
It's not quite New Year's Eve, but the Wednesday before Thanksgiving has earned the nicknames "Black Wednesday" and "Blackout Wednesday" with good reason. With people looking to let their hair...
Delle Donne’s winter survival advice: ‘Don’t be soft’ (and run outside)
Wind chills below zero, ice and other winter regularities can be jarring even for Elena Delle Donne, who grew up in a place where snow isn't a foreign object. "They're...
Our responses to Paris terror attacks shouldn’t stop at Twitter, Facebook
The world can be a horrible, horrible place sometimes. It's an inescapable reality that everyone is well aware of, and one that the vast majority of us actively repress in...
Listen, #ConcernedStudent1950, if you don’t want to make headlines, don’t make a public spectacle
The setting was different this time, but the images told a similar story. Protestors from the #ConcernedStudent1950 movement at the University of Missouri were trying to intimidate journalists on public...
Royals fans in Chicago say it’s the Cubs’ turn
A group of fans tortured by decades of bad baseball congregated at a bar half a mile away from Wrigley Field, three outs from watching their beloved team end its...
I went to an Air Sex show
A grown man writhes in pleasure on a brightly lit stage in an otherwise dimly lit room in Uptown as "Go Cubs Go" plays over the stereo system. He's pantomiming...well,...
Cubs hype is real, and it’s spectacular
The North Side of Chicago was silent Wednesday night as fans streamed out of the bars and into the streets to head home, a dream Cubs season dashed with an...
The 7 stages of Cubs fandom
As fans streamed toward the exits following the Cubs' loss Tuesday to the Mets and into a cold, rainy night that matched the ballpark's mood for much of that night,...