I take guitar lessons on Saturday afternoons at the Old Town School of Folk Music. The school is 6 miles from my home in Skokie. I have a great time, until it was dashed last weekend. To get to class, I drive through Lincolnwood, Illinois, a suburb that rests between Skokie and Chicago. It is […]

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It was reported this week that college football conferences will get approximately $170 million from this year’s Bowl Championship Series games, which is a record. Some $24.7 million has been paid to the five conferences that don’t get automatic bids to the BCS bowls., also a record. BCS officials say the huge dollars were fueled […]

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Other than playing football, Herschel Walker has never really known what to do with himself. He played in the USFL, the NFL, has been an Olympic bobsledder, and he is currently engaged in mixed martial arts. My friends at Northwestern used to laugh uproariously when Walker announced that when his playing days were over, he […]

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Despite the fact that this year’s Chicago Bear team was winning on luck and fumes, there are a lot of Bear fans who are pissed this week after losing to the Packers, and the Southwest Side and Southwestern suburbs are among the bluest collar, most devout Chicago sports fans. It’s their attitude and speech that […]

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Currently on Amazon.com’s best seller lists is “My Father At 100” by his son Ron. There are at least two other books that have been released in the past few weeks to commemorate the 40th president and of course, the conservatives are once again trying to engage in rewriting history to make the man a […]

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• I hate to say this about a black man, but former Cubs outfielder Milton Bradley is nuts. I said so when the cubs signed him; all the time he played here; and after he left for Seattle. Well, Bradley is in trouble again, this time with the law. Earlier this week, he was arrested […]

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• Auburn’s Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Cam Newton announced that he would forego his senior season and enter this April’s NFL Draft No s#$%! I’m surprised he didn’t make the announcement at midfield right after the ball went through the uprights in Auburn’s 22-19 win in the National championship game. • By the way, will […]

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