I was at the Northwestern – Illinois game on Saturday, so I didn’t see the Ohio State – Michigan battle, but there’s been a lot said and written about it. It was a thrilling classic – 2 overtimes with Ohio State winning by 3 points. We all believed it would be a great game and […]

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I have hardly ever seen a professional football team go from disaster, to glimmer of hope, back to disaster in just three weeks counting a bye week, but then again, there has been few teams like the 2016 Chicago Bears. I think that expectations were low for the Bears this season, and the team lived […]

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Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany has had a very successful tenure, if the only measure is in making lots of money for the member universities. The Big Ten Network has been a big success, generating more money for the schools than Notre Dame earns from its NBC deal. The conference has expanded to the East, […]

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Well, the entire world knows that the 108 year championship draught suffered by the Chicago Cubs is a memory. The city partied as in no other championship, which for Chicago is a lot when you think about it. After the Blackhawks won in 1962 and the Bears won in 1963, there was a long period […]

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With the Cubs in the World Series, fans have been writing on the outfield walls with chalk sending messages to dead family members who never got to see the Cubs in a World Series, much less win one, (Personally, I kept waiting for someone to write “Clapton Is God!”) But it is hard not to […]

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Well, tonight is game 1 of the 2016 World Series and the big story, especially around where I live, is the first WS appearance of the Chicago Cubs in 71 years, the longest streak in history. Which of course, is nothing compared with the 108 year championship draught that the Cubs are trying to end […]

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If there is a silver lining to the Donald Trump campaign for President, it’s that women’s rights issues and sexual and spousal abuse are coming to the forefront much more now. Of course, we have to hear the rudest, most vile comments imaginable along with hearing about incidents against women that make one’s blood boil. […]

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