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Sunday smorgasbord: One institution of higher learning with an outstanding journalism school scored an impressive victory on Saturday. But enough about the University of Missouri. Northwestern University won, too — although beating Illinois is slightly less impressive for the Wildcats than beatingquarterback Johnny Manziel and Texas A&M was for the Tigers. * A 37-34 victory […]
It is the day after the day after Thanksgiving. And some of us — more specifically your humble correspondent — still are feeling the after-effects or tryptophan or too much pumpkin pie (as if there is such a thing as too much pumpkin pie) or whatever. So begging your indulgence, we will dispense with any […]
You want to know the worst part about stores being open on Thanksgiving and into early morning the day after? All those people shopping. Purely for scientific purposes, I wandered into a couple of those stores on Thursday night. Instant analysis: too many folks shopping, too few of the advertised items that the early birds […]
Thanksgiving is family. Thanksgiving is food. Thanksgiving is football. Not necessarily in that order of importance for everyone. Oh, and a reminder for those who dread getting together with relatives: As dysfunctional as your family may be, rest assured (or not so assured) that the world is filled with dysfunctional families. Non-dysfunctional families? I imagine […]
Midweek musings: With the Chicago Cubs and White Sox having no chance for postseason success in 2013 (among so many other years), they do have a chance for some offseason success. As in the possibility of Greg Maddux and Frank Thomas being voted into the Hall of Fame. They are two of the 19 first-timers […]
Random thoughts while wondering whether the headline for today’s effort shouldn’t really be: “Slice of Life: Surgery Ends Season for Bulls, Rose”: * The Chicago Bulls lost to the Utah Jazz 89-83 in overtime Monday in Salt Lake City. The Jazz entered the game with a 1-14 record, worst in the NBA. The loss occurred […]
Monday meanderings: As if Sunday wasn’t painful enough for some Chicago sports fans. Some of us viewed the the Bulls game on Comcast SportsNet as we waited for the Bears postgame show. I felt fairly defenseless. Which pretty much would describe the Bulls and Bears efforts. * Well, the afternoon wasn’t totally defenseless. the Bulls […]
Sunday smorgasbord: The news Saturday regarding Derrick Rose was the Chicago Bulls star has a torn meniscus in his right knee that will require surgery. The bad news: He may miss the rest of the season. The good (?) news: He has run out of knees to injure. * OK, so Rose’s resurrected left knee […]
With Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose injuring his right knee (not to be confused with his left knee, which is the one that he had surgery on in 2012 and was the reason he sat out of the 2012-13 season) in Friday’s game at Portland, you have to wonder whether the team’s hopes for any […]
“In the civilized world, it was a day of mourning. In the National Football League, it was the 11th Sunday of the business year, a quarter-million dollar day at Yankee Stadium.” Those were the words of legendary sports scribe Red Smith, then of the New York Herald Tribune. He was speaking of a football game […]