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Midweek musings: President Barack Obama has selected his Final Four for the NCAA basketball tournament: Kentucky, Ohio State, Missouri and North Carolina. Wondering whether Republican presidential aspirant Mitt Romney will go for the schools in states with the most electoral votes. * Funnyman Vince LiFonti, who happens to be one of the Chicago Bulls’ Matadors, […]
Fired as Illinois’ basketball coach, Bruce Weber said Friday he leaves with no regrets. Left unsaid is he also departs with $3.9 million as a contract buyout. So while it is easy to empathize with Weber on an emotional level, it is not quite so easy on a financial one — unless you have received […]
The Chicago Bulls’ 99-96 loss to the Orlando Magic on Thursday was a textbook example of how it is not advisable to give up 37 first-quarter points and expect to win. Speaking of books (oh, isn’t that a clever segue?), the Bulls are teaming with Rush University Medical Center for a children’s book drive on […]
Thursday thoughts: If Peyton Manning had been healthy for the 2011 season, chances are he would be returning to the Indianapolis Colts for the 2012 season — in no small part because the Colts wouldn’t have had a rotten record that would have allowed them to select Stanford QB Andrew Luck. But Manning wasn’t, so […]
Midweek musings: The Indianapolis Colts are severing ties with future Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning. The Chicago Bears are doing likewise with backup Caleb Hanie. It’s the end of an era in Indy and an end of an error in Chicago. * Speaking of quarterbacks, Tim Tebow of the Denver Broncos supposedly was asked […]
The problem with interviewing people at the Arnold Sports Festival is there are sooooo many people to interview. OK, that’s not really a problem — especially here in cyberspace where there generally is more space for such endeavors than there is in a printed publication. OK, the real problem with interviewing people at the Arnold […]
And so the 2012 Arnold Sports Festival and Expo ended Sunday (March 4). It was fun. It was work (sometimes it can be extremely difficult to tell the difference). And it certainly was exhausting. But it definitely was an eventful day. The only bad part was the drive back to Chicago from Columbus, Ohio. Actually […]
There is nothing quite like the Arnold Sports Festival. You almost have to be there to understand that observation. Thousands and thousands of men, women and children amass in Columbus, Ohio, for a variety of events and reasons. Named for Arnold Schwarzenegger (whose American bodybuilding career began in Columbus), the festival has activities from A […]
The Chicago Bears have placed the franchise tag on running back Matt Forte. Meaning he will earn $7.7 million for the 2012 season (well, unless both sides reach agreement on a new, long-term deal). And there are some folks out there who are decrying the deal that doesn’t reward Forte enough. To which some of […]
Brevity being the soul of wit, the editorial staff at elliottharris.com has decided to be witty today. Or soulful. Or something. Because we go to great lengths to provide pictures of pulchritude around here, we went a great