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You can add another star to the galaxy of talented pro basketball players in Chicago. Someone who has been compared to LeBron James. That good. While Bulls fans can lament and/or criticize the absence of Derrick Rose this season, the Sky should be able to smile for quite a while about the addition of Elena […]
Marquis Teague played 14 minutes and Daequan Cook eight for the Chicago Bulls on Saturday (May 4) against the Nets in Brooklyn in the decisive Game 7 of their Eastern Conference opening-round series. Oh, wait. This is supposed to be about who didn’t play rather than who did, right? * Derrick Rose, who hasn’t played […]
The dismissal Thursday of Susannah Collins by Comcast SportsNet Chicago shows the fine line (OK, maybe not so fine) that exists when teams own cable television outlets. CSN said her departure had nothing to do with a remark Tuesday that the Blackhawks had a “tremendous amount of sex during the regular season.” She quickly corrected […]
The ills of a long NBA season seem to have caught up with the Chicago Bulls. Which has them in position for an exit from the postseason. With Kirk Hinrich hobbled by a calf injury that sidelined him and Luol Deng unable to play because of illness (and we won’t even bother to discuss the […]
Thursday thoughts: Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts threw out the possibility of the team departing Wrigley Field, if it can’t reach an agreement on improvements to the ballpark that include a sizable video board. “The fact is that if we don’t have the ability to generate revenue in our own outfield, we’ll have to take […]
Midweek musings: The Chicago Cubs are set to show the public the team’s plans for its Wrigley Field renovation that includes a large video board. The unveiling is to occur Wednesday (May 1). Can’t wait to see the footage on the big screen from the 1908 World Series that they won (their last). Will settle […]
Random thoughts while wondering when a big-name pro athlete in a major team sport (football, basketball, baseball, hockey) in the prime of his career will disclose he is gay: * For Jason Collins to come out as the first active, openly gay athlete in an American team sport is indeed a day to remember. He […]
It was a big weekend for a lot of football players. Which is natural because of the NFL draft. It also was a big weekend for Chicago Bears defensive end Israel Idonije. His excitement had little to do with football and a lot to do with C2E2 — Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo — held […]
He was Nate the Great — especially late. Even so, Nate the Great had to wait — for his team to know its fate. Reserve guard Nate Robinson had 23 fourth-quarter points to help the Chicago Bulls rally to send Game 4 of their NBA Eastern Conference first-round series into overtime against the Brooklyn Nets […]
Because the Chicago Bulls have a playoff game at 1 p.m. Saturday, the plan was to finish up this effort at creativity typing finished at a reasonable hour. This was going to be mostly about C2E2 — otherwise known at Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo — at McCormick Place, post some photos and video and […]