Despite Federer’s loss, discussion continues over who is the best men’s tennis player of all time (Greatest Of All Time – GOAT). Many use the barometer of Grand Slam titles, since you truly have to have a complete game to win a Grand slam: hard courts in Australia in January; clay in Paris in May; […]

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The world of the very rich and famous is far weirder than the normal world in which you, Gentle Reader, and I reside. Case in point: the apparently finished marriage of Alex Rodriguez and wife Cynthia. With long road trips, baseball players are notorious for their infidelities with groupies on the road, but it looks […]

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Once again, there are numerous reports swirling around that Brett Favre is reaching out to his former team, the Green Bay Packers to come out his mere 4-month long retirement. These stories have been floating around for weeks, and the success of Favre and the Packers in 2007 shows that he still has a lot […]

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It is rare for a sports franchise these days to be operating on all cylinders, making moves that help the team, moves that the fans agree with along with being considered smart moves by the press and sport insiders. This is particularly unusual here in Chicago, where my friends and I used to say that […]

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I met John Pont a couple of times while at Northwestern, and I thought he was a decent guy. I also thought that he was a terrible football coach. John Pont died yesterday at the age of 80. Pont came from Miami of Ohio’s “Cradle of Coaches,” like Bo Schembechler, Woody Hayes, Randy Walker, and […]

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In every championship season, you can look back on a game or games that turned the tide of the season. We White Sox fans hope that we saw one last night. After being stymied for 9 innings by Cleveland left-hander Cliff Lee and the bullpen, all looked bad for the Sox in the 10th inning. […]

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Those of us who watch sports questioned Indiana University’s decision to hire basketball coach Kelvin Sampson in 2006 because he was under NCAA recruiting restrictions from his tenure at Oklahoma. As it turns out, the university’s president agrees. Michael McRobbie on June 14th told the NCAA infractions committee that the hiring of Sampson was “a […]

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