I know that the Mets have been one of the disappointing teams in baseball for the past couple of years. Last season, the team suffered through a 1969-Cub-like collapse, leading the NL East by 7 games with 17 games left to play, but were tied with Philadelphia with three games left and lost on the […]

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By now, most people that follow baseball closely, as a fan or member of the media knows that outfielder Milton Bradley “has some issues.” He slammed a plastic bottle at a fan in the right-field bleachers at Dodger Stadium in 2004 after someone threw the bottle on the field. This got him a five game […]

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I admit that I do not believe in the “lone gunman” theory of the John Kennedy assassination, so I guess I’m not at all surprised that former NBA referee Tim Donaghy, already facing jail for taking money from gamblers and gambling on games, has made allegations that the league is corrupt. He wrote a letter […]

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It has been funny over the past few months watching as the previously friendly rivalry between the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times increased in intensity. The Trib made sure to highlight former Sun-Times parent company CEO Conrad Black’s conviction for embezzlement. The Sun-Times has been all over the Tribune Company since its sale to financier […]

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1. The Bulls offered the head coaching position to Vinny Del Negro, a decent shooting guard with San Antonio and now (possibly) former assistant GM for that team. Of course, Del Negro has no coaching experience, which does not bode well for a young team. It appears a desperate and cheap move from a franchise […]

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I have a very close friend who lost his job last week and I wondered, would he like to coach the Bulls? Last week, it looked like the search was over and the Bulls were going to bring back Doug Collins to the bench, but indecision by the Bulls, especially managing partner Jerry Reinsdorf led […]

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The late Warren Oates was one of the true bright spots of a small 1982 action film called Blue Thunder. In it, Roy Scheider played a Vietnam vet on the Los Angeles Police force’s helicopter squad as a rogue military group tried to introduce a military helicopter into use for the 1984 Olympics and were […]

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