10 national storylines to watch in college football to start this season
As the college football season gets ready for kickoff, here are some things to keep an eye on this fall. 1. Big Ten, big problems: One would think every Big...
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Bonded by blood, Northwestern’s Ben Skowronek and TJ Green hope to find home in the end zone
For a while, Ben Skowronek and TJ Green could have passed for twins. Born two months apart with light hair and thin builds, a football glued to their hands, a...
For one night, Urban Meyer needed to speak like a human being. He couldn’t do it.
For one night, Urban Meyer needed to speak like a human being — a human being with actual sympathy and regrets. He couldn’t do it. He fell back into his...
12 observations from Northwestern football practice: How does Clayton Thorson look? And who is the No. 2 QB?
12 opinions and observations from Northwestern football’s practice on Wednesday. 1. If you watched Clayton Thorson go through drills, you’d say: He had surgery? Seven and a half months after...
Laver Cup teams set for Chicago’s Bjorn Borg-John McEnroe extravaganza
Tennis legend Rod Laver knows how to celebrate. He won a record 200 career singles titles, 11 Grand Slam tournaments and five Davis Cups for Australia. The second annual event...
Urban Meyer may face suspension, but don’t expect him to lose his job at Ohio State
Picture this: It’s 1996 and Lou Holtz is hosting a golf media day. I arrive at the course in a walking cast, having broken my fibula playing softball. I’m a...
Series preview: Brewers at Cubs
BREWERS AT CUBS Both games on WSCR-AM 670. Tuesday: 1:20 p.m., NBCSCH. RH Jhoulys Chacin (11-4, 3.91) vs. LH Jose Quintana (10-8, 4.28). Wednesday: 1:20 p.m., WGN-9. RH Junior Guerra...
Joe Maddon offers thoughts on civility but shuts down talk of a future in politics
Joe Maddon thanked several people at the start of Monday’s third annual “Try Not to Suck” golf outing at Bryn Mawr Country Club. He saluted Cole Hamels and David Bote...
David Bote won’t change his approach after hitting an ‘ultimate grand slam’
There’s an actual term for what David Bote did Sunday night — the “ultimate grand slam.” It’s a walk-off, bases-full jack that erases a three-run deficit. It should really come...
3 things we learned from the Nationals-Cubs series
Three things we learned from the Nationals-Cubs series, which ended with the mother of all walk-offs: 1. The Cubs are one gritty bunch. Jason Heyward floored it down the line...