Work finds me in Boston this week, and I thought that the Red Sox Nation would be more openly pleased on the day that George Steinbrenner died. The Yankee owner since 1973 died after suffering a massive heart attack in his Florida home today at the age of 80. Even though he hasn’t been formally […]

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I did not watch the LeBron James telethon last night; for one, I don’t see much in the evenings that doesn’t involve The Wonder Pets; and second, I knew it was going to be a travesty. I should have known (and would have avoided much earlier) that the “show” was going to be ridiculous because […]

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There was the inevitable backlash after LeBron James’ television show last night. Here in Chicago, the Bulls quietly moved on, with a nucleus of Derrick Rose and Joaquim Noah and turned to the rest of the available players. The Bulls will be good, I think. The Celtics resigned their aged, but still dangerous nucleus of […]

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I for one didn’t think the Miami Heat would resign Dwayne Wade, much less attract Chris Boch to the team, but Heat GM Pat Riley has pulled another miracle, his first perhaps since coaching the Showtime, Magic Johnson Lakers. Even though neither man knows the exact numbers on his deal, the question now goes to […]

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Now that “Dollar” Bill Wirtz has gone to the great “cheapskates” meeting in the sky and son Rocky showed what Chicago would be like with a Stanley Cup, it leaves only one franchise in sport as the worst run, most mismanaged in all of professional sport – the Los Angeles Clippers. Owner Donald Sterling has […]

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I’ve been covering sports for almost 20 years and following them for nearly 45, and yet, I’ve seen some things this week that I never thought I’d see: • A Wimbledon Men’s Singles Final without Roger Federer. We should have seen this coming with Federer’s difficulty in his first round match, being down 2-sets to […]

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The San Diego Chargers announced that its former coach, Don “Air” Coryell died at the age of 85. Coryell was one of the great offensive minds in the game, and was the architect of the Hall of Fame careers of Charlie Joiner, tight end Kellen Winslow, and especially quarterback Dan Fouts. He led the Chargers […]

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