Judging by the size of the crowd at the Las Vegas Sin-Chicago Bliss Lingerie Football League game on Sept. 2, 2011, not all area fans made it to Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Ill. Possibly something to do with the Labor Day Weekend. Possibly something to do with the unseasonably warm weather (hey, if I wanted […]
Well, the Chicago Cubs have taken their first step toward 2012. A new manager perhaps? A vacancy would seem looming, even if Mike Quade’s team doesn’t lose another game the rest of this season. Nope. A new general manager perhaps? To replace the recently departed Jim Hendry so that someone is in place to deal […]
The Lingerie Football League’s Chicago Bliss opened its season Friday night at Toyota Park in Bridgeview. The team that had been undefeated in its previous venue, the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, played its first home game in the great outdoors. And it wasn’t so great for the Bliss. It lost. To the expansion Las […]
The Chicago Bears are looking for a safety who will last. They think they might have found one in Brandon Meriweather. He is good enough to be a two-time Pro Bowl player with the New England Patriots. He was not good enough to avoid being cut by the Patriots on Saturday. Which led to the […]
At last Elliott Harris is master of his domain. Thankfully, not Web master. Elliott worked at the Chicago Sun-Times from March 1979-August 2011 when the paper decided it could do without him and his Quick Hits column that he had written since its inception in 1998. Before that, he was a sports copy editor, high […]