Jordan, Inc.

I grew up in a house where Chicago sports were on the television often. Baseball was the first religion, north side only. But second to the Cubs were probably the Bulls. Sure, the Bears were good. We certainly owned a copy of the original Super Bowl Shuffle on VHS. But the Bulls were on the [...]

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Rush’s Rams: Hope for Failure

What’s the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?
One’s a flaming Nazi gasbag, the other’s a dirigible.
Comes now the news that the currently-sorry St. Louis Rams might be up for sale and Rush might be in the market to buy. Yes, Rush and Dave Checketts are looking to buy a team. Checketts, a Mormon [...]

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Dante Stallworth: No Justice

There are all sorts of injustice.
There is the “Michael Jordan pushing off against Byron Russell” variety. This can be seen in any variety of sporting events, whether talking about the Miami Heat getting all the calls in the finals or the NCAA having it out for the University of Alabama. This is a fairly minor [...]

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UK (h)oops

I am fairly up front about my sporting loyalties. I like the Cubbies, of course, along with a variety of NBA teams. My NFL fandom trends towards The Bears (like the Cubs, a product of my Dad’s upbringing in the Chicago area). At the “amateur” level (and yes, I use that term lightly), I root [...]

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Happy Super Bowl Weekend

The majesty. The pagentry. The chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
I could care less about the Cardinals and/or the Steelers (although I did learn that a hero of mine is the D-Line coach [and assistant head coach] for Pittsburgh), but the fact of the matter is that your Sunday Super Bowl party plans involve the eating of foods [...]

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Crimson and Green: Tidal Economics

Sometimes the biggest news is the outrage that isn’t.
Frankly, I expected something of a maddened screeching from the Crimson Tide nation about the recent Buzz Bissinger piece in the New York Times about Alabama football. Bissinger, lately something of an Internet celebrity for his idiotic anti-blog tirade on HBO, is most famous for writing a [...]

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Just to Feel Good

I know I shouldn’t post this and push Kate’s good post further down the page, but I am watching the sports channels continue to talk about the bizarre play that happened recently involving A.J. Pierzynski of the Chicago White Sox in a game against Tampa Bay. I, like most people, hate Pierzynski. I would rank [...]

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Ode to Ken Griffey Jr.

Sometimes I wonder if we as sports fans don’t want to be happy. Now, sure, maybe this is just me, as a Cubs fan, rationalizing my relationship to my favorite team. But when I think about the lack of fanfare surrounding Ken Griffey Jr., I wonder if we aren’t simply in a new era in [...]

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First Fan

So it’s opening night. And the President is on, seeming dumb as hell. With Joe Morgan and John Miller. They’ve given him a real grilling. He didn’t seem too sharp (still, smarter than Frank McCourt and 50% less vegetative than Grady Little). He’s made the following stunning admissions:
1. “We host T-ball on the lawn at [...]

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Boycott the Beijing Olympics

From the bastion of free media otherwise known as the People’s Republic of China comes the news that everything is fine in Tibet. Nothing to see here, international community! Everyone move along, consume your surprisingly cheap goods, continue to send us your e-waste, and join us for the happy parade of drug-free nationalism otherwise known [...]

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