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The Chicago Bulls are expected to be without injured center Joakim Noah for Game 4 Sunday (May 6) vs. the 76ers in Philadelphia. The Bulls trail the first-round series 2-1. Which means the Bulls have one more playoff victory than the Dallas Mavericks, who were swept out of the postseason by the Oklahoma City Thunder. […]
The Chicago Bulls’ season is over. Well, unless it’s not. Common sense says after the way the Philadelphia 76ers handled them Friday (May 4) in taking Game 3 of their first-round series 79-74, the No. 8 seed is on the verge of scoring a major upset. Reigning NBA Most Valuable Player Derrick Rose, the Bulls’ […]
New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in his right knee Thursday (May 3) while he was shagging fly balls during batting practice before a game against the host Kansas City Royals. Thereby supplanting Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls as the most iconic athlete to suffer a […]
Ernie Banks is in the on-deck circle for the next installment of Comcast SportsNet’s “Inside Look.” He steps to the plate on Thursday (May 3) at 3 p.m. in part one of an interview with David Kaplan. Among the topics covered are the Hall of Famer playing his entire big-league career with the Chicago Cubs, […]
I went to a funeral on Tuesday (May 1). Actually, it might have been two funerals, although it’s difficult to say that today with any degree of certainty. There was the celebration of the life of Bill “Moose” Skowron in the morning; then, in the evening, there was the Chicago Bulls’ Game 2 against the […]
The sun came up the day after Derrick Rose suffered a season-ending injury. OK, moreso figuratively than literally. It’s spring in Chicago, so what did anyone really expect Sunday (April 29) to be like? Like it was. Mostly overcast, which is the way some folks felt after the NBA’s reigning Most Valuable Player tore the […]
Thursday thoughts: Is there anything more exciting than the NFL draft? For your sake, we can only hope there is. The prelude to draft day contains general managers and/orcoaches either obfuscating or speaking in banalities, generalities and/or cliches. To simplify life, media outlets should report succinctly: “[Fill in the name of the general manager and/or […]
Midweek musings: Former Chicago Bulls star and current Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan was at Wrigley Field for the Chicago Cubs-St. Louis Cardinals game on Tuesday night (April 24). Perhaps he was there to make himself feel good about his woeful franchise. After all you can measure Charlotte’s futility in decades as opposed to the […]
Random thoughts while wondering which of the Chicago Blackhawks has the earliest tee time now that the Phoenix Coyotes have eliminated them from the NHL’s postseason: * The electric atmosphere. The backs to the wall. The feeling that fan support is an element to success. How did all that work for the Blackhawks in Game […]
Metta World Peace used to go by the name of Ron Artest. The Chicago Bulls are among the NBA teams he used to play for. After the elbow he threw that landed on Oklahoma City’s James Harden’s head in Sunday’s game, the Los Angeles Lakers likely will be without World Peace for at least a […]