Long time readers know that I am a Northwestern alum and football season ticket holder for nearly 20 years. I am very happy when they win, disappointed when they lose. However, despite a dismal collapse that took my Wildcats from Top 25 ranked to out of the bowl picture entirely, I’m still really proud of […]

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Even hearty Chicagoans are grumbling about this very cold, snowier than usual winter, but there are probably no more discontented people in Chicago than Cub fans. After suffering 197 losses in the past two seasons, Head of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein fired Manager Dale Sveum, but was unable to lure Yankees manager, former Cub and […]

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One of the biggest stories of baseball’s hot stove offseason has been the wooing of Japanese pitching sensation Masahiro Tanaka. With the success of Texas’ Yu Harnish, Japanese pitchers have made the transition to Major League Baseball very effectively, and Tanaka mowed through the Japanese league. If he was nearly as successful as he was […]

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To many sports fans, player agents are the lowest form of human life: pimps/con men/lawyers who use any means necessary/available to negotiate huge contracts for their clients and get 10-15% of the big contracts. (Of course, to most fans, the owners of sports teams are perhaps slightly higher on the evolutionary scale as the agents.) […]

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I admit that I am old fashioned when it comes to sports rules. Sometimes I take a wait-and-see approach as I did with the elimination of the two-line pass in hockey (which is more exciting with the possibility of long passes and breakaways); sometimes, I’m just against it. This week, I had both reactions. I […]

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As I wrote here a few days ago, Alex Rodriguez made no friends among his fellow players when he sued both Major League Baseball and the Players Association as a result of the arbitrator’s decision to uphold a major portion of Rodriguez’s suspension for alleged PED use in the Biogenesys affair. Rodriguez claims that the […]

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I know that he is a very successful football coach (he could join the only two coaches to win a national championship in college football and win a Super Bowl – barry Switzer and Jimmy Johnson), but Seattle Head Coach Pete Carroll is sleazy. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Potash this morning was almost genuflecting to […]

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