At this time of year, the NFL kicks into high gear; the league season starts, which means that free agents can be signed, and this year, there have been numerous surprise trades, like former St. Louis Ram Sam Bradford to the Eagles for Nick Foles. Bradford being traded is no surprise, he has been injury […]

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Baseball’s spring training has begun; games are starting to be played, and throughout the sport, hope springs eternal. Every team is a contender; every player is working toward a career year; the fans are excited, if for nothing else than warmer weather after this brutal winter that has pounded the Midwest and East Coast. For […]

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My beloved Chicago Blackhawks have been in the news more even than a team with two Stanley cup Championships in five years should be. Of course, last week, the team lost Patrick Kane for 12 weeks to a clavicle fracture suffered in the game against Florida. GM Stan Bowman started working; unfortunately, the rumor mill […]

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It was just over one month ago that Chicago and the baseball world lost one if its foremost ambassadors – Ernie Banks, and yesterday, it was the White Sox turn to lose its first black player, also an icon and cultural ambassador, Minnie Minoso who died at the age of 90. Both were crucial parts […]

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It is almost incomprehensible when someone younger than you dies. Its not supposed to happen, especially to an athlete unless it is a suicide or accident. No less tragic, but easier to grasp. Athletes aren’t supposed to have their bodies give out on them early in life – in old age, understandable, but as still […]

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How big a dope does Alex Rodriguez believe we fans are? With the start of spring training on Friday, A-Rod star issued a formal apology on Twitter to the fans for everything about the Biogenesis situation. In the handwritten letter, Rodriguez expresses remorse and regret for what happened: “I take full responsibility for the mistakes […]

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There are local Chicago sportswriters that I read religiously (Rick Telander, and a few others come to mind); there are some that I generally avoid like the plague (Rick Morrissey is on that list) and there are those who I occasionally read, but aren’t on either of the extreme lists. Of the three catagories, David […]

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