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You figured a Chicago sports team would be in for a physical battle Thursday (April 19). Who knew it would be the Bulls rather than the Blackhawks receiving the most cheap shots? * The Miami Heat beating the visiting Bulls means little — other than the Bulls still are yet to clinch the best record […]
Here is what can happen Thursday (April 19) that affects the NBA playoffs — not that Chicago Bulls fans necessarily need be concerned with whether their heroes prevail in Miami against the Heat (after all, the Bulls had homecourt throughtout the postseason last year and it didn’t seem to halt the Heat from reaching the […]
Thursday thoughts: Without reigning NBA Most Valuable Player Derrick Rose and all-star Luol Deng, the Chicago Bulls defeated the Charlotte Bobcats 100-68 Wednesday (April 18). Bring on the playoffs. Well, as long as teams the caliber of the Bobcats are the opposition. * The National Hockey League has suspended Raffi Torres of the Phoenix Coyotes […]
Midweek musings: Chicago Blackhawks fans — not to mention coach Joel Quenneville and the Hawks players — are upset that Marian Hossa was recipient of what sure looked like a cheap shot by Phoenix’s Raffi Torres in their first-round playoff series Tuesday night (April 17) at the United Center. After a 3-2 overtime loss, Quenneville […]
OK, so now we know why Derrick Rose has been spending so much time in street clothes. He is a magazine cover model. OK, maybe that’s not the reason, but the Chicago Bulls guard and reigning NBA Most Valuable Player is on the cover of the May issue of GQ magazine that is out April […]
Random thoughts while wondering whether guard Derrick Rose’s fragility is to the Chicago Bulls what pitcher Jake Peavy’s has been to the White Sox: * The Bulls lost 87-84 to the Washington Wizards on Monday night (April 16) at the United Center. The Bulls were without Rose and fellow all-star Luol Deng. And without much […]
It has been one of those days. Woke up early — because of a phone call that led to nothing. Couldn’t get back to sleep, so tried to do some work. Which, of course, caused sleep mode to kick in. Thankfully, the excitement of the draft was enough to brng about revitilization. Yes, there’s nothing […]
Monday meanderings: IRS could stand for something besides Internal Revenue Service. How about: Irritated Rose Speaks. Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose, who took a shot to the top of his nose that drew blood in Sunday’s game at Detroit, let it be known after the game he isn’t happy about the hard fouls he has […]
Once upon a time (OK, actually many years ago because this is indeed fact rather than fairytale), I wrote a letter to Jackie Robinson to ask for his autograph. He was retired from baseball and working as an executive for Chock Full o’Nuts in New York. The first African-American player to break the color line […]
So there they were: several Luvabulls videos from the Miami Heat-Chicago Bulls game Thursday (April 12). And the task was to figure a way to use them, so they would seem to fit in nicely with today’s posting (which, had there been a greater sense of urgency would have been one of yesterday’s postings). Ah, […]