There has been a lot of press here in Chicago today about the arrest of Blackhawks star Patrick Kane for allegedly beating up a cab driver in a dispute over 20 cents. At first, it sounded like Kane and his cousin, James had viciously beaten the cab driver, Jan Radecki, but since then, the cabbie’s […]

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According to numerous accounts, the Arena Football League is on the brink of folding and declaring bankruptcy, bring to and end a 22-year-old sports league. As a fan, I won’t miss the league at all. I never attended a game; nor did I ever watch more than a few seconds of any televised broadcast of […]

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While the sale of the cubs is not final, it is obvious that The Tribune Company still owns the underachieving ballclub. Why else would the online Tribune report the following banal situation. A white flag with a blue “W,” flown when the Cubs win, and is a bone of hatred for White Sox fans, was […]

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We have all known people who were on the edge of being fired at any time. To some, it was their own fault – their personality or work habits were deficient. Others just rubbed a boss wrong, and that was always the hardest kind – a good person who does their job, but either coincidence […]

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I know the downside of sports memorabilia: much of it is fake; people use memorabilia as profit items instead of how they should be used: as a link to your favorite athletes, performers, musicians, etc. However, with all of the writing I’ve been doing lately on older players, especially in tennis, I felt it was […]

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Lance Armstrong, at the ripe age of 37 and after having taken three years away from the sport, stands in second place in the early going of this year’s Tour de France. Armstrong is nearly even with Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland and it seems like it is his race to win, long before the racers […]

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I think that everyone is shocked over the early death of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair, apparently murdered by his 20-year-old mistress who then committed suicide. It’s the age old scenario: a man married for a long time with lots of kids, is bored with his marriage, finds some young woman, and sets her up […]

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