Last Sunday, FoxSports.com reported that former Packer great Brett Favre called then Lions’ President Matt Millen the Sept. 14 Packer/Lion game and was said to have spent more than an hour giving coaches information on nuances of the offense he used to run. Despite denials via text message from Favre on Sunday and a formal […]

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While I was away, Denis Savard was fired as coach of the Blackhawks. As long time readers already know, I have been beating the proverbial drum for the Blackhawks over this offseason, and on the surface, it appears that this was the first sideways or backwards step that the team has made since Dollar Bill […]

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Jose Canseco, interviewed as part of the A&E Network’s one-hour documentary “Jose Canseco: The Last Shot” says that he is sorry he wrote his book “Juiced”, which focused attention on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball and led to congressional hearings on the subject. Conseco says that he “regrets mentioning players [as […]

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I have never been into this “extreme fighting.” I am a life-long fan of boxing, but The Indignant Wife doesn’t like boxing, so I don’t watch much and have lost touch with the sport for the most part. But while boxing has lost some of its luster; extreme fighting, which to me, is a televised […]

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The current venomous speech promulgated by talk radio is not limited to the Rush Limbaughs and Bill O’Reillys of this world. Now, two lunkheads are accusing NBA great Magic Johnson of faking AIDS. KTLK’s Chris Baker and Langdon Perry made the remarks during Baker’s conservative talk show last Wednesday. The context for the remarks wasn’t […]

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There is nothing sadder than an athlete who doesn’t know when his or her career is over. You feel for them as they struggle to do the things that came so easily in their youth. Any number of examples come to mind: Muhammad Ali against Trevor Burbick; Willie Mays in his last two years with […]

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Of course, everyone knows that the path to this year’s World Series Championship is not running through Chicago. On the North Side, fans are taking this year’s choke job in the playoffs worse than usual. (Also refer to “”Monumental Hubris” from a couple of days ago on this site.) A couple of Cub fans have […]

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