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Retired players Stan Mikita, from left, Denis Savard and Bobby Hull share a laugh during the opening ceremonies of the Blackhawks Convention at the Hilton Chicago in 2013.

Blackhawks legend Stan Mikita was a lesson in greatness

May 31, 2019 at 4:36 p.m.

A legend died Tuesday. Stan Mikita suffered from dementia for several years, so his death at 78 was not unexpected, just delayed. But the imprint the wondrously talented Blackhawks center...

Here’s the best news about Mitch Trubisky this week

May 31, 2019 at 4:27 p.m.

The best news this week isn’t that Mitch Trubisky didn’t throw an interception in practice Monday for the first time in 11 full-speed team training-camp sessions. The best news this...

I think we’re looking at Joe Maddon’s best regular-season managing job

May 31, 2019 at 4:12 p.m.

Joe Maddon lost his former MVP. In fact, he has lost Kris Bryant twice, and the Cubs manager will be without the most potent bat on the roster for a...

Brian Urlacher warms up on the field before Super Bowl XLI against the Colts on Feb. 4, 2007 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.

The Hall of Fame decision that says so much about Brian Urlacher

January 12, 2020 at 6:02 p.m.

Get your popcorn ready for “Raiders of the Lost Snark’’: It is a measure of Brian Urlacher’s humility that he selected former Bears linebackers coach Bob Babich to present him...

Great news for the Cubs: Cole Hamels wasn’t Yu Darvish or Tyler Chatwood

May 31, 2019 at 4:13 p.m.

The first hour of Cubs-Pirates on Wednesday night, maybe the first hour-and-a-half, I don’t know, it was all so mind-numbing, but I think they had played two innings. Mommy, make...

Yu Darvish walks between fields during Cubs spring training on Feb. 19, 2019, in Mesa, Ariz.

Is this latest Yu Darvish firestorm a bad time to bring up what Jake Arrieta has done?

May 31, 2019 at 4:15 p.m.

A nice day for a walk in the snark: Is this a bad time to bring up that the Cubs have been trying to smother Alex Rodriguez’s incendiary comments about...

When it comes to Yu Darvish, why would anyone believe Alex Rodriguez?

May 31, 2019 at 4:14 p.m.

The problem with Alex Rodriguez’s offering alleged inside clubhouse information of the injured and rehabbing Yu Darvish the way he did during Sunday night’s Cubs-Cardinals on ESPN is that it’s...

Linebacker Roquan Smith watches practice on Aug. 9, 2022 during the Bears Family Fest training camp at Soldier Field.

Roquan Smith’s contract demand could cause a lot of trouble

May 31, 2019 at 4:31 p.m.

The Bears’ first-round draft pick who immediately lost his new iPad playbook has continued to lose his way to the practice field by refusing to come to a contract agreement....

Fun with Cole Hamels: Newest Cub doesn’t like 6-man rotations Joe Maddon talked about

May 31, 2019 at 4:12 p.m.

As I’ve said for years, it’s always “Snark Week’’ around here: Are the Cubs getting the 2008 Cole Hamels who drilled Joe Maddon’s Rays in the World Series? Because that’s...

James Shields is bad at the end, and this had better be the end of his White Sox career

May 31, 2019 at 4:40 p.m.

Bad at the end. Aggravating right to the stinking end. Or what we hope is the end of James Shields’ time with the White Sox. While you were sleeping Wednesday,...

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