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Super Bowl XLVI made for a memorable event. And the football game was pretty good, too — for those who pay attention to such things. Quarterback Eli Manning and coach Tom Coughlin came closer to cementing their place someday in the pro football hall of fame, as the New York Giants ralled Sunday (Feb. 5) […]
The great thing about waking up late on Super Bowl Sunday is knowing you haven’t missed much — if anything at all — as far as the countless hours of pregame programming go. And do they go. On and on. For those wondering how to spend some time not watching pregame programming, here are some […]
One of the great spectacles of sport is the Super Bowl. Even more entertaining can be the night before the Super Bowl with parties attracting the rich and famous and those who have enough room on their credit cards to hang with (or at least in some proximity) them. So it would seem only natural […]
And so here we are. One day before the Super Bowl. Or, as I like to think of it, one night before the Super Bowl. You can have Super Bowl XLVI betwen the New England Patriots and the New York Giants in Indianapolis. Yours truly will take Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. Or, as I […]
Looks like somebody is about to cash in on the popularity of losing weight. Fitness maven Andrea Metcalf is set to debut her “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is” reality television series. The hour-long show, which will award contestants $10 for every pound they lose, is to debut Saturday (Feb. 4) at 1 p.m. […]
Thursday thoughts: Former Chicago Cubs general manager Jim Hendry lands a job with the New York Yankees as a special assistant to general manager Brian Cashman. Cubs fans — and White Sox fans, too, come to think of it — can only hope Hendry can do for the Yanks what he did for the Cubs. […]
Opening Super Bowl media day to the public Tuesday in Indianapolis was one way for the NFL to increase revenue (with more than 7,000 folks shelling out $50 apiece, that’s revenue)– and decrease the media’s sense of being special. OK, some media members will maintain their elevated estimation of their importance, undeserved as it may […]
The Chicago Bears introduced their new general manager to the world — or at least to the media — Monday at Halas Hall in Lake Forest, Ill. The event created a certain sense of dejay vu. Or at least deja who? Because if you closed your eyes and listened or if you merely read the […]
Monday meanderings: Is there a better all-star game than the NFL’s Pro Bowl? Uh, why yes. Every other one, in fact — although the NHL does its best to be the worst of the lot. Unless a 12-9 outcome (some of us won’t even bother listing the names because 1. too tough to spell; 2. […]
As part of SoxFest 2012, commissioner Bud Selig was in Chicago on Friday. He presented the 2011 Commissioner’s Award for Philanthropic Excellence to Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf at SoxFest at the Palmer House Hilton. Selig praised the Sox for “making Chicago a better place to live.” With the possible exception being last season for their […]