On top of a television cabinet in a Lakeview condominium sits a small jar filled with dirt. While the jar isn't important, the dirt is. The dirt is from the...
So Sammy Sosa used a corked bat. Once. So what? He's going to serve his suspension, and that should be that. More disturbing is a little-mentioned item that the Cubs'...
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: `It might have been! --John Greenleaf Whittier (1856) Those words were lamentably appropriate for the Chicago Cubs...
Kansas coach Glen Mason reached an agreement Friday with Minnesota to become the new head coach, according to a televised report in Minneapolis. Midwest Sports Channel quoted an anonymous source...
Showtime has added "very articulate and photogenic" (or so says executive producer Jay Larkin) Tommy Morrison as co-host for its pay-per-view telecast Saturday night of the Frank Bruno-Mike Tyson heavyweight...
Bradley, Northern Illinois and Valparaiso may get their day in the sun after all. WBBM-Ch. 2, the local CBS affiliate, announced Tuesday it had asked for and received permission to...
Chicago-area viewers will get to see the opening-round games of Indiana, Purdue, Michigan and Marquette. They won't get to see Northern Illinois, Bradley or Valparaiso. "It's an embarrassment of riches,"...
The NCAA men's basketball tournament selections always leave as many questions as answers. Even to the CBS announcers who covered Sunday's announcements. "For those who claim CBS really controls what...
Put in a call to Quinn Buckner the other day to talk about the upcoming NCAA men's basketball tournament. After all, that's what one of Buckner's jobs is these days--talking...
Bruce Wolf will become a lone wolf--sort of--as host of the WMVP-AM morning show starting Friday. General Manager Doug Sterne said Wednesday it was time for the all-sports station to...