Just as we sports fans were digesting the possibility of cheating among NBA referees, the London Sunday Times reported yesterday that eight matches at Wimbledon, which starts today, have been reported to the tennis authorities on suspicion that the results have been fixed by professional gambling syndicates. The matches have reportedly been named in a […]

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It’s one thing for the Chicago White Sox to lose a series to the dreaded, hated Cubs, but they got swept this past weekend and only the first game was close. After losing 4-3 on Friday, Jose (Up and Down) Contreras gave the North Siders a nine-run fourth inning, which was too much for the […]

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Interleague play in baseball has been a mixed bag: often, two teams play each other that have no geographic or historical rivalry, and if those teams are also playing poorly, this means lackluster baseball at its finest. However, where there are natural rivalries, like Chicago and New York, each with two teams, it can bring […]

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If you hadn’t guessed, my primary job is in the banking business, and as such, I have a wealth of stories (especially in this economic environment) about loans that have gone bad, good ideas that have gone bust, and people the banks are suing or trying to find. One of the basic paradigms of banking […]

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Just two days after pulling out one of the most exciting, stirring wins in golf history at this year’s U.S. Open, Tiger Woods announced that he was soon undergo the third knee surgery on his left knee and would also allowing himself to heal from a double stress fracture of the same leg. As a […]

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It’s sad when an athlete falls on hard times. It’s sometimes sadder to see a former athlete trade on his fame as a former player, build a business and then either see it fail, or worse, do something criminal to pad his wallet. Such is the case with former Chicago Bear fullback Roland Harper, best […]

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I wasn‘t surprised that the Celtics finished the job and defeated the Lakers in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, but when I awoke this morning, I was surprised at the final score: 131-98. It was a trouncing. As a former hater of the Celtics, I am at peace with this. For one thing, I’m […]

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