As you may know, I have Northwestern football season tickets and have since 1996, and it never fails to get me fired up than the fans from the other school. I don’t know what it is that makes me so angry – arrogance, acting as bad visitors. That’s the reason for my passionate hatred for […]

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It was a good weekend in Chicago for sports fans. As I noted above, NU won. The Blackhawks got one point in a shootout loss on Saturday night in Nashville (a step up from the zero points they had been registering in several losses), then got 2 points at home against Anaheim. The Bulls are […]

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I haven’t seen Auburn quarterback Cam Newton play. From what I hear, he is among the best players in the nation, and this week, is at the center of allegations of wrong doing. As always, there are different sides to any story. Background, Newton originally played behind Tim Tebow at the University of Florida. He […]

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It was quite a shock to learn that former Bulls guard Quintin Dailey died Monday in his Las Vegas home at the age of 49 from hypertensive cardiovascular disease (one year younger than your friend and humble narrator).. Then-Bulls general manager Rod Thorn selected Dailey from the University of San Francisco with the seventh pick […]

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When I attended Northwestern in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I think the football team won two games in my entire time there, and all too often, we would watch Iowa, or Michigan, or Ohio State beat us by such huge scores that it was like watching the score on a pinball machine rolling. […]

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I guess it is weird seeing 2 members of the 2005 White Sox World Series Championship team: Juan Uribe and Aaron Rowland, playing for the new champs – the 2010 San Francisco Giants, but I guess that shows that these guys are winners. Uribe lost the shortstop position to Alexi Ramirez, and Rowland was traded […]

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It didn’t take long for the Minnesota Vikings to evaluate their once-and-future wide Receiver Randy Moss. Four weeks after re-acquiring Moss, the Vikings waived Moss. Linebacker Ben Leber says coach Brad Childress informed the team that Moss had been let go during a team meeting Monday afternoon. One thing that you don’t do is criticize […]

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