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Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant apparently suffered a torn Achilles tendon during a victory vs. the Golden State Warriors on Friday (April 12). The future hall of famer plans to come back next season. The injury — plus surgery — generally takes about eight months to recover from. Meaning Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose will be back playing well before Bryant. Or maybe merely: well, before Bryant.
Loop Rock Girl Shannon Ihrke always is welcome around here.
* OK, so one night after ending the New York Knicks’ 13-game winning streak, the Bulls lose to the Toronto Raptors 97-88 Friday for the second time in four days. On the bright side, the Bulls will not face the Raptors or any sub-.500 teams in the playoffs. The Bulls (43-36) are 16-14 vs. teams with losing records. Meaning they are 27-22 vs. everyone else. Something says after Sunday’s game vs. the Heat in Miami, the Bulls will be 27-23 vs. everyone else.
* The Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in a shootout at the United Center. The victory gave the Hawks a sweep of their four-game season series. It’s the Hawks’ first sweep of the Wings since 1976-77. The victory also gave the Hawks the Central Division title. And it gave the editorial staff at elliottharris.com an excuse to run a photo of Loop Rock Girl Shannon Ihrke. As if there needs to be justification for running a picture of her whenever we feel like it.
* San Diego Padres outfielder Carlos Quentin, the former White Sox slugger, was suspended eight games for his role in a brawl Thursday in which Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Zack Greinke suffered a broken collarbone. Greinke will be out about eight weeks. Something says fewer batters would charge the mound after being hit if they were to miss as much time as the pitchers they injure. Of course, something says fewer pitchers would hit batters if they were to miss as much time as the batters they hit.
* Former Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Cabral, a member of the 1985 team that won the franchise’s only Super Bowl championship, will be signing autographs Saturday from 3-5 p.m. at Sports City Memorabilia, 9241 Skokie Blvd Skokie, Ill. Autographs will be $15 for any item. Inscriptions are $5, as are certificates of authenticity. The store also will be offering a one-day sale of 20 percent off entire store (signed and unsigned memorabilia) and 50 percent off all racing memorabilia.
Jonathan Winters died Friday. He was 87. He also was one of the great comedic geniuses to have inhabited the planet. Sometimes you might have wondered exactly what planet he inhabited or what planet he might have come from, but there was no question regarding his creativity or his ability to be funny.
Some — possibly most — in the audience here may be too young to remember Winters’ wild, whacky, wonderful humor. He was Robin Williams before there was a Robin Williams. That might be as close as anyone ever came to Jonathan Winters.
So what is a mention of Winters’ death doing here? Well, he was an interview guest on “Sports & Torts” co-hosted by David Spada and Elliott Harris on Talkzone.com. It was one of the most delightful interviews that program has enjoyed. You can judge for yourself:
And here is Jonathan Winters in one of his classic routines that involves sports:
As long as we’re going to provide some video, we might as well offer up a daily dose of the non-gratuitous variety (deemed so by the editorial and video departments at elliottharris.com on the basis of a very liberal definition of “gratuitous”):
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