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One of the joys of spring training is being able to focus on the good and ignore the bad that happens to your team. Magnify the positives and minimize the negatives. * Kris Bryant hit a home run in his first exhibition at-bat for the Cubs. His seventh-inning blast came in a 15-3 loss to […]
Goodbye, Columbus. OK, so there isn’t a hello, Columbus, to go with that sentiment. The Arnold Sports Festival has begun in Columbus, Ohio. Unlike the last few years, your humble correspondent will not be attending. Yes, wait till next year is a theme that some of us are familiar with. In this case, there is […]
Thursday thoughts (or as close as it comes to things like that around here): It’s not entirely clear whether the possibility that Arizona might lose the right to host Super Bowl XLIX (that’s the 2015 game) was the key reason that a proposed discriminatory (meaning anti-gay) bill was squashed. The NBA’s Phoenix Suns and WNBA’s […]
Midweek musings: With a 107-103 victory over the host Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday, the Chicago Bulls improved their record to 30-26. In the Eastern Conference, that means they are good enough (or the East is bad enough) for the No. 4 seed. Well, if the season ended today. Which might not be the worst idea […]
Harold Ramis went to the same hair salon that Sue Harris (aka “The Wife”) did. Or maybe it was the other way around. Harold Ramis was a classmate of my sister Helene at Washington University in St. Louis. Or maybe it was the other way around. Harold Ramis once was one of the participants at […]
Monday meanderings: Reserve center Jason Collins played 11 scoreless minutes for the Brooklyn Nets in a 108-102 victory Sunday against the Lakers in Los Angeles. It was his first game of the season after signing a 10-day contract Sunday. The only statistic of significance for Collins was the number 1. As in he became the […]
Sunday smorgasbord: Well, the U.S. men’s hockey team certainly found a way not to be embarrassed by having to receive the bronze medal at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The Americans lost 5-0 to Finland in Saturday’s bronze-medal game. You could call it an amateurish effort on the Americans’ part — except that would […]
Some people — mainly in the United States — are upset that Canada defeated the United States in Olympic hockey? In part because the winner advanced to the gold-medal game against Sweden at the Games in Sochi, Russia. In part because somehow losing diminishes a country or those who root for that team/country. Really? * […]
The Chicago Bears have called an audible on Shea McClellin, their 2012 first-round NFL draft pick. Speaking to the media in Indianapolis where the league’s talent-evaluation combine is being held, general manager Phil Emery said the former Boise State star will shift to linebacker from defensive end. In college, McClellin played linebacker. “I think he’s […]
Thursday thoughts (or as close as we come to them around here) while wondering whether the Chicago Cubs are going to build a comedy club in Wrigleyville and have chairman Tom Ricketts as the headliner. He met the media Wednesday in Mesa, Ariz., and offered up statements that seem laughable, if not downright delusional. * […]