For the first time since 1970, there will be no Canadian teams in this year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs. On top of the devaluation of the Canadian dollar against the U.S. dollar due to the huge decline in oil prices, none of the seven teams that call the great white north home will be playing any […]

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Expectations are high on Chicago’s North Side – Cub Nation thinks that this is the year that the 107-year World Series Championship draught will be over. This is Opening Day, so there’s this one main sticking point in all of the blinding optimism – the 162 games that the Cubs have to play this season. […]

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At first, when I heard that tennis star Maria Sharapova was having an “important” press conference today, I thought the 28-year-old top 10 player was announcing her retirement. It would not have been too surprising considering that players often burn out of the grind at Ms. Sharapova’s age (Bjorn Borg walked away at 27 for […]

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You may remember that, upset that Northwesten Head Coach Pat Fitzgerald retained all of the assistant coaches including the incompetent (in my opinion) Offensive Coordinator Mick McCall, I posted here, wrote on Facebook, and even called Fitzgerald’s office to complain. After he commented about the faceless complainers, I decided to use snail mail to make […]

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Derrick Rose is from Chicago. He grew up less than a mile from where I grew up. If you grow up in Chicago, you know that for all of the capital markets and Magnificent Mile, and North Shore suburbs, Chicago has a blue collar, lunch-bucket, work hard mentality. Especially in their sports, Chicago fans revere […]

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Many of you know that I have called for Northwestern Football Offensive Coordinator Mick McCall to be fired for at least two years. I have posted here, and I even called Head Coach Pat Fitzgerald’s office after National Signing Day to complain when he brought back every coach on both sides of the ball and […]

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Seldom do you see an official, referee, umpire, etc. face real punishment for his/her actions. Fortunately, the players and coaches have respect for the game and the officials. However, things do seem to be escalating. Last month, Calgary Flame defenseman Dennis Wideman cross-checked linesman Don Henderson in a game against Nashville on January 27th. Wideman […]

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