WILLIAMS SISTERS HAVE EACH OTHER, AND THAT’S ENOUGH
Courtesy is not fundamental to the Williams sisters, nor is modesty, not that either is essential in whacking a tennis ball for location and alacrity. Venus Williams, unlike sibling Serena,...
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`DAYS OF OUR BULLS’ SOAP OPERA WILL GO ON DESPITE JACKSON’S DEPARTURE
As entertainment, the Bulls just keep on giving. Spaced judiciously, the assorted goings, comings and stayings of the derelict dynasty can take us through the summer and well into autumn,...
THIS DEFEAT CHANGES EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
Who was it that said that the chief value of soccer in this country is in junior high gym classes as phys ed credit for kids who are free to...
WHEREVER THEY GO, THESE 3 WILL BE CHICAGO’S FOREVER
The Grant Park farewell will not be it. The three of them will see one another again, at reunions eventually, across the basketball floor sooner than that. They can wave...
INVINCIBLE
ANOTHER BRILLIANT MEMORY Invincible. Times six. A single tear leaked down Michael Jordan's face. Maybe it was only sweat. Jordan earned both. He deserved each. Maybe never more. The hugs,...
LET ‘EM SNICKER AT US; SOON THEY’LL UNDERSTAND
No one but us understands. The world is getting a good giggle today at our barricades aside and our confetti still tethered, at our mayor instructing his constituents not to...
ALL IT MEANS IS THE BULLS MUST CELEBRATE ELSEWHERE
Suddenly, the Bulls have this little problem. Drinking laws being as confounding as they are in Utah, the Bulls may well need to eat something with their victory champagne. This...
THE END OF A GREAT ADVENTURE IS AT HAND
What makes the night unlike any other in Chicago is the knowing, and it is the not knowing. It is the end of the Age of Jordan, or maybe not....
RODMAN DOES NOT DIGNIFY A NOBLE CAUSE
Dennis Rodman vindicated nothing by being the hero of Game 4 for the Bulls. His method is his and welcome to it, but do not try this at home. "There...
SO VERY, VERY HARD NOT TO LOVE THIS GAME
What a marvelous miniature of America are these NBA Finals, all those separate and assorted parts pulling together for the common and individual benefit of you, me and, more's the...