Along with brain injury/CTE, the NFL has a big image problem – players committing domestic abuse. It’s bad enough from the league’s standpoint that it happens, it’s worse when it’s filmed and in this day that smartphones and social media allows for every human event to be captured and shared with the world, this is […]

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I have always been a bit indifferent to announcer Bob Costas. He did a decent job covering everything for NBC from football to the Olympics, to, it seemed, dog shows. He was omnipresent but basically innocuous to me. I hardly ever watched “Later,” his interview program in part because it was on late, and mostly […]

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The ownership tenure of the Ricketts family has been full of ups and downs. Of course, they brought the team’s first championship in over a century to the North Side. They have also instituted needed renovation of Wrigley Field and are in the process of building a “Cub Mall” around the park where concessions and […]

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Call me a nonbeliever, but I don’t think that there is any way that yesterday’s Rose Bowl was Urban Meyer’s last game as a college football head coach. There’s just too much hypocrisy with the man. “I know this is relatively young, but I started young — 17 years as a head coach, 33 years […]

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After beating my beloved Northwestern Wildcats, but being unable to get into the College Football Playoff but securing a trip to the Rose Bowl, it would seem that Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer would be a lock to stay in his job, despite having been suspended for the first four weeks of the season […]

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I have a talent, it may be a gift, or it may be just a need to be like the title character in the forgettable Woody Allen film Zelig – I have gotten to meet a ton of famous people over the years. Most of it is being in the right places at the right […]

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Unless you’re Colin Kaepernick, players can do almost anything on or off the field and get away with it. It’s like Trump said during the campaign – I could shoot someone on the street and people would still vote for me (echoed in racists winning seats, most recently in Mississippi, Nazis and white supremacists running […]

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