For several weeks, it has been rumored that several of host China’s gymnasts are too young to participate in the Games. The three gymnasts: Jiang Yuyuan, Yang Yilin and especially He Kexin, had been backed all the way by Chinese officials, but a report in The New York Times on July 27th showed online documents […]

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Maybe I’m cynical (yes!), but it always strikes me funny when a company, sport, etc. conducts an investigation; proudly announces that there is no evidence of wrongdoing but the person at the center of the investigation is fired anyway. For ages, I have been contemptuous of Big Ten officials, especially football referees. I think that […]

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So, the ugly battle between Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers finally ended yesterday with the future Hall of Famer heading off to play for the New York Jets. Apparently, the Jets’ interest in the quarterback heated up as tempers increased in Wisconsin. It’s a no-brainer deal for the Jets – Chad Pennington has […]

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This story has more sequels that Star Wars, with the same level of bad acting and dialogue. The Brett Favre vs. Green Bay Packers story was supposed to have ended Sunday, right? Favre was back in camp; he could compete for the starting job; and the only person PO’d was Aaron Rodgers. End of story: […]

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I generally don’t watch the Cubs, but I admit that last week, while in Pittsburgh, I did see the end of the Cubs game against Milwaukee on ESPN that night, and did notice that ESPN’s dugout reporter, a young woman named Erin Andrews, was wearing a very risqué dress and was hanging on the players […]

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To Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s chagrin, somehow I think that this may be the Olympiad in which the “Olympic Flame” dies. Politics, cheating and apathy seem to be the main stories we are getting ready to cover in Beijing starting Friday. This Olympics has been plagued by the start: Darfur, Tibet, totalitarianism has caused protests […]

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Unless your name happens to be Aaron Rodgers. It appears that the Brett Favre saga is ended, but not without more twists and turns. Last week, Packer President Mark Murphy (and former NU Athletic Director) went to Mississippi to talk with Favre (wish you had stayed in Evanston, Mark??). The story came out that the […]

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