For the past few months, it was considered a fait accompli that the NFL would renew the contract of Commissioner Roger Goodell. He has brought untold billions of dollars to the league, which is the main job criteria of any commissioner to his bosses, the owners. But the Ray Rice incident, Deflategate, the Ezekiel Elliott […]

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I admit that I don’t watch much baseball anymore. Too much to do; don’t want to waste a summer day inside watching television or stream. Plus, the White Sox weren’t very good (although they are certainly improving), and watching Chicagoans got crazy over the Cubs isn’t my idea of fun. The playoffs have been exciting […]

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One of the worst things about sports is the constant recycling of managers and head coaches. Every sport rehabs coaches, some successful, many, not nearly as successful. This of course, helps perpetuate the overwhelming number of white men who get coaching jobs. With three MLB playoff teams jettisoning their managers, along with teams like the […]

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For the past couple of years, there has been speculation that New England should trade their backup QB Jimmy Garoppolo. Despite having only played in a handful of games, Garoppolo has been tempting to every team needing a quarterback, the Bears included. With Tom Brady hitting 40, but showing no signs of deterioration, Garopollo became […]

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The 800 pound gorilla in the room of golf remains Tiger Woods. The best golfer of his generation has been known more for off the course bad behavior and health problems than winning golf over the past few years. In the meantime, many other golfers have taken his place at the top of the golf […]

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Before the season started, I wrote here that I was having a problem getting geared up for the NFL in part because no team has signed quarterback Colin Kaepernick as a result of his national anthem protest last season. Every available quarterback from every league has gotten an opportunity before Kaepernick. As usual, the old, […]

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Mike Ditka is revered in Chicago, first as the tough pass catching tight end and then the coach of the Super Bowl Champion 1985 Chicago Bears. Here, he is an icon, a marketing star, at least in this area. He had been an NFL analyst, okay as a personality, but increasingly out of step with […]

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