It is a common joke that sports teams will employ anyone who can help them win. Michael Vick returned to the NFL after being convicted of running a dog fighting operation and killing dogs on a regular basis. Do you have any doubt that some team will take a chance on Ray Rice now that […]

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For the first time in memory, I really don’t have a problem with the members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, the body that votes on enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame. As expected, two first time eligible pitchers were elected, Randy “The Big Unit” Johnson and Pedro Martinez. While deserving, I was […]

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I took some time off this holiday season and spent a lot of it chasing the Indignant Children and watching movies, both in theaters and at home on video. A lot of stuff happened, so let’s go over it: • The well deserved Chicago Bear house cleaning by George McCaskey didn’t go far enough. Ted […]

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In every newspaper, on every television news broadcast, all over sports radio here in Chicago, the big story is the collapse of the Chicago Bears. Not even great starts by the Blackhawks and Bulls can knock the Bears off the front pages of the sports sections. Partly it is because the Bears are the one […]

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Yes, I felt like John McEnroe as I typed that. For whatever reason, I have been using the Albert Einstein quote about insanity a lot lately: insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” Perhaps Northwestern Head Football Coach Pat Fitzgerald should take this quote to heart. After two […]

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Someone contacted me and asked why I never wrote about Major League Umpire Dale Scott came out as a gay man, and there’s a simple reason – it wasn’t news. True equality is when it is no longer news that someone is gay. Only the fundamentalists cant deal with a changing world. Love who you […]

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I was the last Jay Cutler supporter; the key word here is “was.” I still marvel at the arm strength; the near impossible throws that he has been able to make; he is tough, taking a pounding behind weak offensive lines. All he needed was help, I thought, but for one, the Bears’ stepped up […]

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