My regular job places me in downtown Chicago, and short waves went through the whole downtown when there were reports of a shooting at one of the buildings in the Loop last Thursday. Last Thursday morning, Steven Lavoie, CEO of ArrowStream, a company that focused on technology for food service companies that shipped freight had […]

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As an afterward to my previous story, I have to include this story. There were reports that an experimental drug was being used on the two American medical workers who contracted the Ebola virus. The drug has reportedly worked very well on the two Americans, which is a good thing. My question is: what were […]

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There is hardly any sports fan that hasn’t seen the gruesome leg injury suffered by Indiana Pacers guard Paul George while playing for Team USA in preparation for the World Championships. It ranks right up there with Joe Theisman’s broken leg and Robin Ventura’s ankle break for severity and gross out from the television footage […]

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The NCAA announced that it has reached a settlement in the litigation that began when a dozen college athletes accused the NCAA of putting their health at risk by leaving concussion policies up to individual schools. The settlement is for $75 million, a drop in the bucket compared to the NFL’s $750 million settlement, but […]

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It looks like you don’t want to invite the Bash Brothers (Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco) to any party you may be planning (personally, I wouldn’t want to be in the same room with either of them, apart or together.) McGwire and Canseco were the most feared 1-2 home run hitting combos of the late […]

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Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was given a two-game suspension for a domestic violence incident in the offseason. Rice allegedly knocked his then-fiancée unconscious in an elevator in an Atlantic City casino last February. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is once again on the hot seat, since players who violate the league’s drug policy automatically […]

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The media is making a big thing out of the murder rate in Chicago, but yet again, oversimplify the problem. First, it should be noted that the murder rate in Chicago is half what it was in the early 1990s, and murder per capita is near where it was during the Johnson administration. However, the […]

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