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*** Ernie Banks is dead. That’s a sentence I never thought that I — or anyone — ever would write. An unquestionable baseball immortal, “Mr. Cub” had a quality that made folks believe he would be around forever. A true immortal. Or at least until the Cubs had won their first World Series crown in […]
The most surprising part of the Chicago Bulls’ 104-81 victory Thursday against visiting San Antonio was the number of minutes played by the starters. If you didn’t know better, you’d think Gregg Popovich of the Spurs was coaching both teams. * Jimmy Butler (17 points) didn’t lead the Bulls in minutes played; he had 28. […]
Thursday thoughts (or something close to them): Michael Jordan was on the verge of tears. Understandably so. After all, it’s not every day that the Charlotte Business Journal honors you. In the former Chicago Bulls star’s case, it was Wednesday. * Speaking of Jordan, he received the award as the publication’s Business Person of the […]
Midweek musings: To those who contended that any allegation of the New England Patriots’ underinflating the footballs in Sunday’s AFC championship game was a lot of hot air, take a deep breath. The NFL reportedly has determined that was not the case. Nor was it it a lot of cold air. Seems that the Pats […]
Random thoughts (or a reasonable facsimile of such things) while wondering which Chicago team will have more victories in October — the Bears, the Cubs or the White Sox: * Speaking of the Bears, they introduced new coach John Fox to the media on Monday at Halas Hall. Among his remarks: “I’ve always been of […]
Monday meanderings: The Green Bay Packers’ season ended ingloriously Sunday in the NFC championship game. And so Chicago Bears fans can take some sense of satisfaction at seeing their biggest rival suffer a devastating defeat 28-22 in overtime against the host Seattle Seahawks. Well, some sense of satisfaction until the aforementioned fans realize that chances […]
Sunday smorgasbord: The Chicago Bulls sent a message to the Eastern Conference-leading Atlanta Hawks in their game Saturday night at the United Center. And the message was something like this: We’re a better team with Joakim Noah and Mike Dunleavy in the lineup. Yeah, not exactly the message any Bulls-affiliated folks were hoping to send. […]
John Fox is the Chicago Bears’ new coach. Let the excitement begin. Which it generally does with the coronation in Bears nation whenever such vacancies are filled. Something says Bears fans will be thrilled if Fox can do for the Bears what he did with the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos: Be the losing coach […]
Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo has spoken: “It’s [winning the National League Central] going to happen this year. It’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to play and we’re going to win the NL Central, you can quote me on that. We should be the team, with all due respect to every other […]
Derrick Rose had a good game Wednesday night. The Washington Wizards had a better one. So despite Rose’s game-high 32 points, the Bulls lost 105-99 at the United Center. * If it’s any consolation to Bulls fans (and the guess here is that it might be to some), Rose’s point total was a season high. […]