I have not seen anything more than headlines, but apparently Walter Payton College Prep School’s baseball team will be playing Far South Side Gwendolyn Brooks High School this Saturday night. I don’t know if the school was shamed into playing, or the Chichago Public Schools PR decided that they needed to diffuse the situation, but […]

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As you may know, I have been bored by basketball, especially the NBA version for over a decade, so other than the superstars, I don’t really know a lot of the players. As a result, I don’t know a lot about Jason Collins, but the Washington Wizards forward has taken the step we knew would […]

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There is a big story evolving in Chicago from over the weekend, Walter Payton College Preparatory High School is a magnet school, ironically built in the neighborhood where the old Cabrini-Green Housing Projects once stood. Saturday night, Payton was supposed to play another magnet school: Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy, but one which is located […]

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Sport truly is a barometer of humanity. There are winners; there are losers. Individual sports – team sports; there are spectator sports, and those that don’t lend themselves to attention. Sports gives us something to do, something to think about, something to argue over. It is part of us as human beings. It shows the […]

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Pat Summerall died this afternoon at the age of 82. He came to prominence as an end and a kicker for the NFL New York Giants, but he is best known as a Hall of Fame announcer. His easy going style lent an air of class to any game. He called a record 16 Super […]

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In the words of Dickens, last Sunday could be called “the best of times, the worst of times” for the Chicago Cubs. I happened to channel surf into the end of the Cub game against the defending World Series Champion San Francisco Giants, and it was about as ugly as you can imagine. The Cubs […]

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One of the most positive aspects of today’s society is the growing and long overdue movement to give equal rights to Gay and Lesbian people and couples. Even in sports, greater tolerance is being shown; in the ubër-macho NFL, players are supporting gay rights and marriage, and it is rumored that four or more gay […]

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