The talk of Chicago is the excerpt of the upcoming book “Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton,” written by Jeff Pearlman, in the current edition of Sports Illustrated. The late running back has been almost deified around here; tough, playful, hard-working, everything a football player should be. What is causing all of the ink […]

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The big story for the end of the 2011 baseball season in Chicago is that Mike Quade wasn’t’ the first manager fired, although it’s coming. Ozzie Guillen, manager of the only World Series Championship for either team in a combined 190 seasons, was let go by the team yesterday, but it was coming. Not because […]

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The NBA will be postponing the start of training camp and the league will begin cancelling preseason games as the lockout of the players continues. All summer, there has been no real sense of urgency, but now that games are effected, perhaps the sides will begin to get serious. However, it doesn’t look good for […]

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The Toronto Film Festival is over and I’m back with you. This year’s film festival recap is progressing; I hope to have it by the end of this week. In the interim, a few thoughts…. • Isn’t it hypocritical for the hyper-conservative Chicago Tribune to sensor last week’s Doonesbury cartoons? I went online and saw […]

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It seems like every year, there are hockey tragedies. Hockey players are renowned partiers, so fatal automobile accidents (often involving alcohol) seem to occur all the time. Even ex-hockey players are not immune, as we in Chicago know with the death of Keith Magneson in an automobile accident several years ago. This season, the tragedy […]

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With the NFL season approaching (it starts tonight with the Saints vs. the Packers), all questions were on how well, or poorly, the Chicago Bears would do. Despite winning the NFC North Division, the Bears had huge question marks on the offensive line, with Quarterback Jay Cutler; at wide receiver, and on the defensive line […]

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It has been an interesting weekend for the Chicago White Sox. A last ditch chance to make a run at the American League Central lead evaporated by getting swept by the division leading Detroit Tigers over the weekend. The true death knell was when the White Sox blew an 8-1 lead only to lose to […]

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