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Midweek musings: Now that Marc Trestman is leaving the Canadian Football League’s Montreal Alouettes to become coach of the Chicago Bears, he will have to re-learn some things. One of them being “rouge” no longer refers to a scoring play but something that can be found in the cosmetic department of certain retail establishments. * […]
Random thoughts (or what passes for thinking around here) while waiting for Oprah Winfrey to announce during her Thursday televised interview of Lance Armstrong — which was taped Monday (Jan. 14) — that she will be competing this summer in the Tour de France: * The Chicago Bulls’ 97-58 victory over the visiting Atlanta Hawks […]
Monday meanderings: Any similarity between the Chicago Bears and the football played over the weekend in the NFL’s postseason is purely coincidental. Even if you didn’t have a rooting (and/or betting) interest in the Seattle Seahawks-Atlanta Falcons game or the Baltimore Ravens-Denver Broncos contest, you had to be entertained. * Defense wins championships. That’s what […]
It was a busy Saturday night (Jan. 12). The Chicago Bulls had a game at home against the lowly Phoenix Suns, the NFL playoffs were on television, and the Miss America pageant was on TV. In that it is difficult — some say impossible — to be in more than one place at a time, […]
Weekend wondering: With Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose having participated in pregame shootaround Friday before the team’s 108-101 victory over the Knicks in New York, wondering whether he will do so before their game Saturday at home against Phoenix. Or anytime at the United Center. * Wondering whether the media are as tired of covering […]
Former Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa, who this week received 12.5 percent of the votes in his first year of Hall of Fame eligibility, apparently won’t be waiting on pins and needles for future results. Probably because thinking someone tainted by performance-enhancing drugs (stronger than Flintstone vitamins) will be enshrined in Cooperstown is pointless. Speaking […]
Mathematics is one of the reasons that some of us ended up in journalism school (yes, it might come as a shock, but your humble correspondent actually did go to an accredited j-school that miraculously kept that accreditation after my graduation). So dealing with numbers might be something of a challenge. But that’s what we’re […]
Midweek musimgs: The Chicago Bears continue to lead the NFL in one curious category: coaches interviewed to fill a vacancy. Here’s hoping someone in authority reminds Bears general manager Phil Emery the idea is to land the best candidate, not the most. * Speaking of the Bears’ task to replace fired coach Lovie Smith, the […]
Random thoughts while wondering how happy Ohio State’s football team (or maybe merely Buckeyes fans) might be to still have an unbeaten record while being ineligible to participate in a bowl game against — oh, I don’t know — maybe Alabama: * In the words of the highly esteemed scribe Mike Downey that he posted […]
Monday meanderings: Notre Dame vs. Alabama for the college football championship of the galaxy. On a Monday night? Shouldn’t those student-athletes have been studying — something other than playbooks — rather than prepare for the Bowl Championship Series title game? One of these years the NCAA is going to have to admit it functions as […]