As I wrote some time ago, the 2016 NHL Playoffs are without a Canadian team for the first time since 1970. None of the seven franchises from north of the border are playing right now, and the league’s worst fears are being realized. Ratings for the playoffs are down 61% from last year according to […]

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Everyone, all 7 billion people on this Earth, and entitled to their own opinion, no matter how stupid, backwards, racist or just plain ludicrous they are. (However, people are not entitled to their own facts as the late New York Senator Daniel Patrick Monaghan correctly stated.) However, when you’re a celebrity, your comments carry much […]

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I have long thought that former sports superstars would not make good coaches. In almost every major sport, superstars have thought that their knowledge of the game and the players’ perspective would make them great coaches and front office members. In football, former Super Bowl Champions Bart Starr, Forrest Gregg, among many others have tried […]

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Records are made to be broken – no question about it, but I must admit that I never thought I would see any team surpass the 72-10 regular season record amassed by the 1996 Michael Jordan led, Chicago Bulls. It was ridiculous – the Bulls winning became so common place that you almost didn’t watch […]

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In the next step toward making their league completely irrelevant, NBA owners are reportedly about to vote to put ads on jerseys for the 2017-18 season. The reportedly lucrative deal would place a 2.5-by-2.5-inch patch on the left shoulder. The initial proposal to owners that was floated at a meeting held at the time of […]

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Spring is in the air (sort of) and while warmth brings positive thoughts and longings for warm weather, this really is the best time of the sports year. Baseball is starting and here in Chicago both the Cubs and White Sox have gotten off to very strong starts; the only negative being the season ending […]

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I used to work at Wrigley Field and old Comiskey Park back in the 1970s and the 1980s, and my last baseball season as a “full time” worker was in 1985, when I worked 160 out of a possible 162 home games for the Cubs and White Sox. That season, I was co-chief usher for […]

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