Up to now, I think many tennis fans, myself included, found it hard to root for Roger Federer. He was so good; so much better than the rest of the men; called the best ever by so many intelligent tennis pundits, and off-the-court, he was so bland and seemingly uninteresting, we took him for granted. […]

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I feel for Eddie Curry. I feel for a lot of professional athletes who, too often, think with their penises than with their brains. If you live outside of Chicago, you may not have heard this story. Curry, former number one draft pick now a benchwarmer for the New York Knicks, has a 3-year-old boy […]

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I was talking with a neighbor who owns a couple of bars over the weekend, and I told him that it’s a good thing Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band were playing at halftime of the Super Bowl, because it will give people something to watch. By then, the game should be over. Pittsburgh is […]

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Now that “Dollar” Bill Wirtz has gone off to the great mansion in the sky and the team has made great strides both on and off the ice, Cardinals’ owner Bill Bidwell takes over as the worst owner in professional sport. The bow-tie wearing dandy moved the Cardinals across the country, mismanaging the team at […]

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I am always averse to calling for someone to lose their job – there is loss of self-esteem, prestige, and most of all, money to provide for one’s family. Especially now, with jobs being lost at almost every company; people losing their houses in foreclosure; a financial tidal wave sweeping the world – it is […]

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Both Chicago newspapers are reporting that Sam Zell and his Tribune Company have decided on a buyer for the Cubs: Tom Ricketts and the Ricketts family will pony up $900 million. On the one hand, the Ricketts are local, and reportedly, the new owner met his wife in the Bleachers. The bigger question of course […]

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One thing that can be said about the Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2009: the Writers voted in two Black men who are about as prickly as you can get. Both Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice were in the “second wave,” if you will, of Black athletes – gifted men who played the game, […]

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