ESPN: The Worldwide Leader in hot-take bloviating
In all the vociferous hoo-hah over old friend Jay Cutler crossing over to the dark side last week, the departure of a wise old hand from the media world jovial...
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Yankees’ series in Chicago often provide a sense of significance
I remember walking into Wrigley Field late in the morning June 6, 2003, and seeing Derek Jeter and Jason Giambi playing catch in foul territory near the visitors' dugout. Pretty...
For former Marshall coach, basketball helps reassemble a shattered life
Shawn Harrington and Patrick Beverley have a West Side upbringing and Marshall High School basketball in common, along with a belief that ferocity trumps finesse in the game they love....
Cubs should beware decline and fall of Blackhawks’ and Giants’ empires
Old habits being what they are, I find myself checking on the baseball Giants and the basketball Warriors from time to time, having spent time tethered to those teams while...
Arthur Agee headlines benefit basketball game at Marshall High School
The Marshall High School basketball family will step up for one of its own on Friday by staging a charity doubleheader at Marshall. Proceeds will benefit the family of Courtney...
Can the 2017 Cubs do what the 1986 Bears could not?
Javier Baez is 24, with slightly more than a season's worth of major-league at-bats behind him and a street named for him in Chicago's Humboldt Park community. Illinois' state-sanctioned network...
Amazing how much in Chicago sports has changed since 2009
The byline on the story you're reading last appeared in these pages in October 2009, before the Yankees-Phillies World Series. The odds of it ever appearing here again weren't good...
Tiger always an honored guest
Not that Chicago is a Bears town or anything, but as the greatest athlete in the world -- all right, the most dominant -- wrapped up a typically wondrous four-day...
NU 2-minute drill
Getting offensive: Junior Stephen Simmons had 196 all-purpose yards, a career high. Simmons ran for 73 yards on 13 carries, a 5.6 average, and scored two touchdowns. He brought five...
Chapter 3: Chapel Hill
A poster-sized reproduction of Sports Illustrated's cover for its 1981-82 college basketball preview issue hangs above the replica playing floor at the Carolina Basketball Museum, which is a site to...