‘W’ is letter of the day for QBs
Jay Cutler and Aaron Rodgers will tell you they are not competing head-to-head against one another Sunday night. It's the sort of thing athletes say that pretty much no one...
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His parting shots sealed with a hiss
Goodness. Who knew his tank was filled with this much highly flammable fuel? When Michael Jordan was done Friday night, it's a wonder anybody had eyebrows left, such was the...
MJ induction now makes Hall complete
It's not as if there has been a lot of suspense leading up to this moment. Michael Jordan hasn't chewed his fingernails down to the cuticles wondering whether this, at...
Chapter 8: Birmingham
So there Birmingham sat, minding its own business, content with what it was -- a major banking center, the rapid heartbeat of the state's obsession with University of Alabama football...
Chapter 1: Brooklyn
This is a landmark that whispers. The man who reshaped the sports world's topography to look suspiciously like the patterned bottom of a basketball shoe was born here, in the...
Longtime Birmingham Barons fan: ‘He was part of the family’
HOOVER, Ala. -- It's 83 degrees on an August night, which is nothing compared with the night before, when the Birmingham Barons played the Mobile BayBears in sweltering conditions and...
Chapter 11: Washington
It wasn't supposed to end like this. Everyone involved seems to agree on at least that much. Michael Jordan doesn't do bad endings. He might do corny, impossible, save-the-day endings,...
Longtime Birmingham Barons fan: ‘He was part of the family’
It's 83 degrees on an August night, which is nothing compared with the night before, when the Birmingham Barons played the Mobile BayBears in sweltering conditions and spectators were futilely...
Curb your enthusiasm
Sports Illustrated has the Bears going to the Super Bowl this season, raising the obvious question: Where does Lovie Smith find the time to coach an NFL team and write...
It could be a great divide
Stray thoughts from a tangled mind: *Though they probably don't know it, our friends at the Sun-Times have come up with the perfect solution to solving the mess known as...