With training camps, the entire exhibition season, and the first two weeks of the regular season already cancelled, the NHL owners rolled out a 50/50 split of hockey revenue proposal to the players’ association. While it appears that the deal won’t end the lockout, it is the first significant movement by the league. What is […]

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I had the honor to know Bill Jauss, retired Chicago Tribune sportswriter and panelist on “The Sportswriters on TV.” Jauss died today at the age of 81, joining Joe Mooshill, AP writer and “back-up” TV sportswriter, who died a couple of weeks ago. In many ways, it was Jauss who got me involved with that […]

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When one is a supporter of Northwestern football, hope is fleeting and disappointment never far away. We always get off to a good start (in past years, we played a number of “soft” non-conference game), but this year, we defeated three BCS level opponents in Syracuse, Boston College and Vanderbilt, before facing a “smaller” school […]

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Unlike many writing sports, following sports, I’m old enough to remember when Carl Yastrzemski won AL Triple Crown in 1967. My father, in one of his few bonding attempts took me to old Comiskey Park to see the White Sox and the Red Sox. (To be honest, I don’t think he took any time in […]

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• It was a very disappointing season for Chicago baseball, and it’s good that it’s over. My White Sox choked in the stretch, allowing the highly touted Tigers to catch up and then run away from the Pale Hose. On the North Side, the Cubs posted their first 100+ loss season since 1966. • It’s […]

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I mean us as the United States; isn’t it only Third World and former Eastern Bloc countries who engaged in outright cheating? It was reported today that short-track speed-skater Simon Cho said that acting on orders from national team head coach Jae Su Chun tampered with the skates of a Canadian athlete at the 2011 […]

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With the 2012 election getting closer and closer, a whole bunch of famous people are coming forth with their opinions, which is their right, but some people’s endorsements come with a definite grain of salt. Creed lead singer Scott Stapp stopped by “Fox & Friends” (of course) to announce that he will not be voting […]

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