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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When the New York Jets drafted Gino Smith last week, the writing was on the wall for Tim Tebow. The Christian poster boy played very little last year after being picked up after the Denver Broncos signed Peyton Manning, and now Tebow is a man without a team, being released by the Jets this week. […]

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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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After a couple of years of jeers and loud guffaws, the Big Ten Conference announced that it was giving up on the division titles “Legends’ and “Leaders.” With Rutgers and Maryland joining the conference in 2014, the Big Ten will be divided into two divisions: “East” and “West.” On top of that, the conference will […]

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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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