With Jay Cutler just good enough, Bears are stuck in mediocrity
Let's call it the Jometer. That would be shorthand for the Jay-o-meter. It is possible that the Jometer will peg again this week or even the next, making it three...
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Baseball’s staged celebrations are starting to lose their fizz
Joy deserves its moments, however misplaced in the larger picture. So seeing the Cubs squirting champagne on each other after achieving the bare minimum of success can be taken in...
Spotlight on Patrick Kane probe shows, again, that winning is everything
The need to have an opinion about Patrick Kane weighs heavily on those of us who have none. If Kane were a Columbus Blue Jacket instead of a Chicago Blackhawk,...
It’s a new era on PGA Tour, and Tiger Woods doesn’t seem to be missed
A smiling Tiger Woods adorns my press credential, holding what looks to be an umbrella stand, the trophy that goes to the winner of the BMW Championship, and there is...
The Bears’ best weapon is the other team’s overconfidence
Nevertheless, the National Football League glides on, none the worse for an offseason of air-ball absurdity, concussion discussion and assorted arrests. The game returns so that grown men can bash...
Current fixation on Cubs likely, as always, much ado about nothing
The Cubs are coated with schmaltz, inevitably, full of mist and mush when things go well, and even when they don't. The Cubs are baseball's make-a-wish team. Oh, the longing,...
Michael Jordan’s image not as sacred as he wants all to believe
The town was Weimar, part of the old East Germany, the town of Liszt and Goethe and, to my great surprise, Michael Jordan too. I turned a corner and there...
Pretense of student-athletes just part of the college game
Labor is not what it used to be, or even where it used to be, and to find it among the Northwestern football team is like finding a crowbar in...
Need more useless baseball metrics — stat
Modern baseball statistics are much like gluten or sleep numbers. You know, crap someone made up for no good reason. In fact, I think CRAP is one of the new...
Tom Brady and the Court of Public Opinion
Oyez, oyez, oyez. The Court of Public Opinion will come to order. Judge Nibby Nosepoker presiding. "Your honor, my client, Mr. Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr., stands before you today...