The word fan is short for fanatic, which is what sports fans are – rooting on their teams with their entire being. They see calls through their passion; they cheer their teams; they boo the opposition. I know because anyone whose seen me at a Northwestern football game or Blackhawks game knows that I’m anything […]

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I know that I am dating myself here, but when I was growing up, at least in my house, when an African-American person was doing well in sports, we tended to root for them. Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Dick Allen, the late Norm Van Lier were some of the athletes that my family followed and […]

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Finally, we see the cry baby in billionaire Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts. Yes, Wrigley Field needs millions of dollars in improvements, and yes, he is hamstrung by the fact that historic Wrigley Field is a monument and requires permission before serious changes are made. He is also hamstrung by the politically connected owners of […]

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LeRoy Butler, retired safety of the Green Bay Packers, won’t be coming to a Wisconsin church anymore because he tweeted support for Jason Collins, the NBA player who came out as gay this week. “Congrats to Jason Collins,” Butler tweeted April 29, the day Collins came out in a Sports Illustrated cover story but a […]

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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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