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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We who have played sports, even on a playground know that sport teaches you teamwork, determination, and (hopefully) good sportsmanship. These are all life skills that kids need to learn and ones that you use for a lifetime. Unfortunately, organized sports all too often teach our kids a lesson in the real world: hypocrisy, rules […]

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Lots of work and lots more snow shoveling has kept me away from the blog the last couple of days, but I have four NFL stories that need to be discussed: The Super Bowl was everything a football fan would want – exciting, down to the last seconds dramatic. The commercials were mostly lame. The […]

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One of the results of a win at all costs mentality is that one is more then willing to bend, if not break the rules. The upside is that you win; you get all of the rewards, money, fame, glamour of the winner. The only downside (in the short term) is if you get caught. […]

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