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It has been such a long time since I last sat down at the computer and typed words for this site. Almost a year ago. I can rationalize any inactivity because of the death of daughter Rachel. Exactly a year ago. April 1, 2015. I will remember that date for as long as I live […]
Sunday smorgasbord: This is the day everyone with a keen sense of Chicago sports — as well as elsewhere — has been waiting for. Yes, it’s the opening game. Of the WNBA Finals. Oh, and the opening game of the Bears season, too. * Thanks to the wonder of trans-global communication (OK, otherwise known as […]
Thursday thoughts (or as close as we generally get to such things around here): The Chicago Cubs lost a victory Wednesday. And then they went out and played a game against the San Francisco Giants. Which they also lost. * On the bright side, the Cubs still have a chance to win Tuesday’s game. The […]
Weekend wondering: The Chicago Bears — who play the Green Bay Packers on Sunday at Soldier Field to determine the winner of the NFC North and which team goes to the postseason and which team goes home — made news Friday with the announcement they had signed kicker Robbie Gould to a four-year contract extension. […]
Monday meanderings: The Chicago Bears against the Green Bay Packers on Monday Night Football means Sunday was a great day to take advantage of that extra hour of sleep provided by switching to Daylight Saving Time — although there are some of us here in cyberspace who like to think those leaves we should be […]
Midweek musings: Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw has an incredible 1.72 earned-run average. He aso has a 13-8 record — with the latest loss coming Tuesday against the Chicago Cubs 3-2 at Dodger Stadium. For those who contend Kershaw should win he National League Cy Young Award, doesn’t a loss to the Cubs automatically […]
A beautiful day for softball. An enthusiastic capacity crowd at your home ballpark. An opportunity to win a championship. You couldn’t have asked for much more than that Saturday (Aug. 24), if you were the Chicago Bandits or a fan of the National Pro Fastpitch team. Well, other than a victory. The Bandits, who entered […]
Looking for an upside to the Chicago Bears season that ended with a thud Sunday (Dec. 30)? Well, waiting till next year will be a lot shorter than it is for any other Chicago sports team that has seen its season end without a championship (and that would be most of them this century and […]
Life goes on. Not for the 20 school children killed Friday (Dec. 14) by bullets from a gun-wielding perpetrator in Newtown, Conn., but for all those touched — directly and otherwise — by such a tragedy. A death is a death, of course. And one child’s life is no less tragic, no less important, than […]
It’s not every day that this site devotes much space to mixed martial arts. Then again, it’s not every day that Loop Rock Girl Shannon will be in the ring. OK, she won’t be fighting — although she does have MMA skills. She will be a round-card girl for the Bellator 84 event Friday (Dec.14) […]