Despite my advancing age, I don’t think about death too frequently. It’s going to happen to us all, and yes, I am seeing more celebrities who I looked up to or admired passing away. Some, I’ve met (Stan Lee for example), most I have not. However, it is rare for two sports/broadcasting people who I […]

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Eye of the Tiger I thought that Tiger Woods would never win another major championship. Disasters in his personal life, severe back and leg injuries, and the never-ending tide of age made it almost a certainty that Woods would not approach Jack Nicklaus’ 18 titles. After all, it had been 11 years since he’d won […]

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I’ve been very busy which took me away from the column, but here are just a few briefs to follow: • Joel Quenneville gets big money to go to Florida – a young team with some talent and plenty of salary cap room. I’m happy for him – he was the scapegoat for GM Stan […]

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Right now, Chicago fans are relatively happy with the front offices of their professional teams. The Bears are on an upswing; the Cubs still deserve credit for winning after 108 years; the Blackhawks have been inconsistent, but shown signs of life and a new younger core; the White Sox failed to land Manny Machado, but […]

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Long time readers know that I am no fan of Big Ten officials. Over the past many years, I have taken out my ire on the football officials who I believe are the worst in the nation. You also know that on this issue, I’m not a “homer;” I am critical of horrible calls that […]

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Sometimes, I think that people are stupid or oblivious, or just don’t get it. Instead of celebrating the start of Spring Training! the Chicago Cubs have been deflecting bad publicity. The fallout from last year’s Addison Russell wife beating incident, MLB suspension, but continued support from the team is bad enough. Then, racist emails to […]

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Along with brain injury/CTE, the NFL has a big image problem – players committing domestic abuse. It’s bad enough from the league’s standpoint that it happens, it’s worse when it’s filmed and in this day that smartphones and social media allows for every human event to be captured and shared with the world, this is […]

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