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Midweek musings: First of all, can someone explain how we already are at Wednesday? It is? Really? Really. Here’s how some of us figured that out: The Chicago Bears ended their season Sunday with a 26-24 victory at Detroit. They fired coach Lovie Smith on Monday. They held a press conference with general manager Phil […]
The firing Monday (Dec. 31) of Lovie Smith as Chicago Bears coach is not the end of the world. Certainly not for Smith, who has one year remaining on his contract and even could land another head-coaching position this offseason. He was among seven coaches sent packing the day after the regular season ended, so […]
Pride factors into the Chicago Bears-Detroit Lions game Sunday (Dec. 30). It has to do with more than the Bears needing a victory at Ford Field — plus a Minnesota Vikings loss to Green Bay — to reach the postseason. It has to do with the Detroit Pride. As in the unofficial cheerleaders of the […]
In the never-ending quest for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (or whatever they might award out here in cyberspace), this site will continue to chronicle the efforts of the newly formed Chicago Crave. That’s the Bikini Basketball Association franchise scheduled to debut in summer 2013. Owner/CEO Korie Kellogg held the team’s first tryouts on […]
Cubs Convention weekend will have a fashionable and fashionably early start on the day before the annual winter homage to the baseball team begins. A fashion show fund-raiser to benefit the David DeJesus Family Foundation — “Strike a Pose” — will be held Jan. 17 at the River East Arts Center, 435 E. Illinois St. […]
Parting is such sweet sorrow. Such is the case with the Chicago White Sox and catcher A.J. Pierzynski. Or maybe the sorrow is the Sox not willing to pay the money to bring him back. Or Pierzynski wanting as much money as he could find. He signed a one-year, $7.5 million deal Wednesday with the […]
It wasn’t quite clear why the Houston Rockets-Chicago Bulls game would be an attraction fit for a national audience on Christmas night. And that was before the game even began. Earlier national TV matchups on Christmas 2012 were Boston-Brooklyn, New York-Los Angeles Lakers and OKlahoma City-Miami. A casual observer of the NBA could understand why […]
Christmas means different things to different people. For some, it’s going to church and celebrating the birth of a Jewish guy who — the story goes — is the son of God. And this was in an age when there was no child tax credit on your income tax. Which probably is just as well. […]
Back by popular demand (as always, the demand is to do this only once a year), it’s the 13th annual version of Holiday Tunes. The first 11 editions came as part of the Chicago Sun-Times Quick Hits column that I once wrote. For those who prefer, feel free to think of this as the second […]
Some Hollywood celebrities have banded together to produce a video for demandaplan.org, a group seeking to end gun violence. Or at least diminish it. The video is part of a campaign by Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The group’s web site can be accessed by clicking