Today, my old friend from The Sportswriters, Rick Telander wrote an article about the upcoming Super Bowl and the fact that both the starters: Tom Brady of Tampa Bay and Patrick Mahomes of the Chiefs – maybe the old GOAT and the up-and-coming young GOAT could have been acquired by the Bears. No one needs […]

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Adding to the sheer malevolence that was 2020, it was all of the Baseball Hall of Famers that passed away. Six members of the august group died just in 2020 – Tom Seaver, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, Al Kaline, Whitey Ford, and Joe Morgan, the most since seven members died in 1972. While there has […]

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In this case, however, they sure can’t play a mean pinball… Again, catching up with stories that I never had a chance to opine on before. Right after the dispiriting loss in the playoff game in New Orleans, the Bears’ “Brain Trust” met with the media. Earlier in the season, mired in a six-game losing […]

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Maybe it was the way I was raised, but a man never touched a woman inappropriately, and certainly never showed a woman your “naughty bits” as Monty Python called the male genitalia. With technology, apparently men think it’s OK to send pictures of their penises to women. If the woman is okay with it, its […]

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Long time readers know that I am not above suggesting that major sports leagues shrink. Teams in cities that aren’t large enough to support a franchise; where the owners mismanage the team and/or anger the local government and fans; and places that refuse to submit to civic blackmail by building the team a new stadium […]

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It is very hard being a Chicago Bear fan, especially this season. After overpaying for journeyman QB Nick Foles to push Mitchell Trubisky, the team went 5-1 in their first six games, but all could see that this was a mirage. The defense has never returned to 2018 domination, and if a Lions running back […]

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You never see a team admit to tanking. Even if it’s obvious that this is the team’s strategy, you hardly ever see it blatantly, and never in the middle of a season or worse, a game. Of course, we saw the White Sox engage in the famous “white flag” trade, shredding the pitching staff in […]

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