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Monday meanderings: The Chicago Bulls reportedly have agreed to a two-year deal with free-agent guard Kirk Hinrich. He was the Bulls first-round pick out of Kansas in 2003 before being traded two the Washington Wizards in the summer of 2010 to clear salary space. This is general manager Gar Forman’s initial move in 2012 free […]
The Chicago baseball team’s most recent acquisition who is appearing in the everyday lineup has been something special. Is there any question that first baseman Anthony Rizzo has demonstrated superior skills in such a short time (11 games)? No. After all, Rizzo is batting .386 (17-for-44) with four home runs and nine runs batted in. […]
New York vs. Chicago always is a special sports matchup. Mainly because folks in Chicago find it a way to invalidate any New York state of mind that smacks of superiority. That’s the way the Cubs-Giants baseball battles played out back in the day when the North Siders were winning National League pennants with regularity […]
OK, so the Chicago White Sox’ “Take Jake” campaign fell short of sending pitcher Jake Peavy to Kansas City, Mo., for baseball’s All-Star Game on July 10. You can’t say the Sox didn’t try. They even enlisted second baseman Gordon Beckham to impersonate Peavy. If Beckham was as good on the field as he was […]
Baseball’s All-Star Game generally is considered the halfway point in the season. It is — if you’re really bad at math. Because teams play a 162-game schedule, the halfway point should be — wait a minute while the advanced arithmetic department at elliottharris.com does some calculating — 81 games. The All-Star game is set for […]
Every year about this time, the Fourth of July occurs. Generally between the third and the fifth, if memory serves. Like clockwork. Or calendarwork. It is a time for family and friends to gather, stuff their faces with food and drink, set off illegal fireworks reflect on life as we know it in America and […]
Random thoughts while hoping Chicago White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski’s fragile ego (not to mention Sox fans who generally are defensiveb about their team’s rightful place in the world) will be able to survive joining the long list of ballplayers who were snubbed throughout history for the All-Star Game: * Speaking of the Midsummer’s Classic […]
Monday meanderings: If baseball’s All-Star Game determines homefield advantage for the World Series and fan voting is part of the process, why don’t fans get to decide what teams are in the World Series — or at least in the postseason? Does that sound stupid? Probably because it is — just as is having either […]
Comcast SportsNet is stepping up to the plate with a game show that is to debut Sunday (July 1) at 5 p.m. Chicago time. The CSN effort is far from a trivial pursuit — even if the idea behind “The Batter’s Box” involves trivia. The baseball-themed show will feature eight Cubs and eight White Sox […]
You can kiss Erin Andrews goodbye as an ESPN employee. Which is about as close as any of us reading (or writing) this will get to kissing the sideline reporter who also was a contestant on ABC’S “Dancing With the Stars” in 2010. “Erin Andrews is leaving ESPN,” an ESPN spokesperson said Friday (June 29). […]