Underappreciated Player Too Expensive For Dysfunctional Franchise
Unlike Derrick Rose, Luol Deng is a leader and great humanitarian – and a player the Bulls didn’t care to keep.
1. The Silent Star by Dunkman827.
Posted on January 8, 2014
Exclusive: Inside Jay Cutler’s Contract
Another Beachwood Special Report
So it turns out Jay Cutler’s monstrous 7-year, 126.7 million contract is really just a middling 3-year, $54 million contract with club options thereafter.
The Beachwood, as it is wont to do, has obtained further exclusive details about the deal:
* Three bonus pouts per game.
* Nine bonus shrugs per press conference.
* Working Ventra card.
* Urlacher’s old parking space once Urlacher finally moves his RV out of there.
* Private locker next to the training room.
* Obamacare Gold Insurance Plan.
* Doesn’t have to play against Green Bay.
Posted on January 7, 2014
SportsMonday: Don’t Buy What Cubs Are Selling
By Jim Coffman
Well into his third off-season at the helm of the Cubs, we know one thing about chairman Tom Ricketts: He is more concerned with making money than he is with winning. The evidence is overwhelming.
After football seasons crash and burn, the longstanding tradition of fans brushing themselves off and saying something like “six weeks ’til pitchers and catchers report!” kicks in. And oh by the way, there are (a little less than!) six weeks until Cubs pitchers and catchers report to good ol’ Mesa for spring training.
So on a brutally cold day in Chicago, we turn our attention to baseball and we dream of sunny skies in temperate Arizona. Before we know it, it will be February 13 and the opening of baseball’s extended preseason will occur.
Posted on January 6, 2014
The College Football Report: Jimmy Kimmel, Pistol Pete & The Discover Card
By Mike Luce
The past few days have been an orgy of college football, with the weekend – the prime-rib station of the bowl season buffet – still ahead. Following the Sugar Bowl on Thursday night, 30 games are in the books. Some observations on the results so far:
- Favorites have delivered as expected, going 17-13 straight up.
- To our unending amazement, the point spreads were dead-on: favorites have “covered” exactly half of the 30 games after Alabama failed to beat the 1- point spread against Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl on Thursday night.
- The “chalk” has performed better in low-scoring games, with favorites covering nearly all the low scoring games: 12 of the 15 covers came in games with point totals under the Vegas Over/Under line for total points.
- Overall, offensive output has trended downward, somewhat contrary to the huge point totals posted throughout the regular season. The under has fared well, with 19 of 30 games finishing below the total, including most (9 of 12) of the games expected to finish with 60 total points or more.
Posted on January 3, 2014