One of the great things about sports in general, and baseball in particular is that the teams that are supposed to win; often don’t. Otherwise, the Yankees would have 50 World Series Championships; the Red Sox 50; and the Mets would at least win the National League every year, because these are the teams with […]

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Next week begins the year’s second tennis major, the French Open (and, to me, it has been so long since the Australian, it feels like it is the first Major of the year), and it appears that the field is wide open for both the men and women. With last week’s retirement of Justine Henin, […]

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This was a bad week for women in sport. First, best female golfer in the world, Annika Sorenstam announced that this would be her last year on the tour. And it is understandable: she is engaged, and at 37 would like to start a family. She has over 70 tour wins, including last week. She […]

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Sam Zell is many things, but stupid is not among them. The owner of the Tribune Company and the Chicago Cubs rejected an offer for the Illinois Sports Stadium Authority to use public funds to purchase Wrigley Field. This was a dumb idea on all points. First, should taxpayers from all over the State of […]

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Considering the history of futility of Chicago sports teams, often, once the playoffs start, fans choose to do one of three things if there is no Chicago representative: choose a team to root for; pick out the teams that you don’t want to win and root against them; or ignore the playoffs completely. I usually […]

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I reported just after opening this site that baseball’s Players’ Association was going to investigate why no team had made an offer to Barry Bonds, and I gave a few suggestions. Well, ESPN.com reported today that the MLBPA has opened an investigation into the free-agent market, not only for Bonds, but for other players like […]

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Ever since “Dollar” Bill Wirtz shuffled off this mortal coil at the beginning of the season, son Rocky Wirtz has been making steps to improve the club and hear the fractured relationship between the team and it’s fans. The old man wasn’t even buried before Wirtz moved long time impediment to progress Bob Pulford out […]

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