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By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
Scott Foster Is The Emergency Backup Goalie We Need. Plus: Cubs Opener A Perfect Preview Of The Season To Come; White Sox Opener A Perfect Preview Of The Season To Come; and So You’re Saying Loyola Has A Chance?
Posted on March 30, 2018
By Roger Wallenstein
We interrupt this program – that being the euphoria up on Sheridan Road – to remind our readers that we have a baseball season returning on Thursday when The Rebuild continues for the White Sox, starting in Kansas City.
The past couple of months had been a wasteland as far as local sports were concerned until the unheralded Ramblers – the local papers hardly covered Loyola until it was clear they were going to the Tournament – awakened a city thirsty for something to cheer about.
Hope has turned into reality for the college hoops team in Rogers Park.
As far as the Sox are concerned, there is a tinge of hope, but it has yet to spring eternal. Yet most fans are more than willing to sit back, observe on television rather than at the ballpark, and wait.
We know this is working. At least we think it is.
Posted on March 26, 2018
By Jim Coffman
So what the heck are we supposed to do for the next five days?
Loyola makes the Final Four and everything is all “Woo-Hoo! What a Victory! Donte Ingram, Clayton Custer, Marques Townes, Ben Richardson, Cameron Krutwig, Aundre Jackson and Lucas Williamson are the best players ever and Porter Moser is the best coach ever!”
And then, “Now they don’t play again for a full week?”
Posted on March 26, 2018
By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
But don’t expect a campus windfall no matter what ill-informed journos tell you. Plus: Cubs Camp Breaking Badass; Gee Oh Lito!; Fox Spox; Don’t Even Think About It, Ryan Pace; and Schweinsteiger.
Posted on March 23, 2018
By Pregame TV
The Ramblers have been underrated all season.
The Wolfpack miss their point guard.
That’s the word from Steve Fezzik, who picked Loyola to get here in the first place. With Brad Powers, from Las Vegas.
Posted on March 22, 2018
By VladTV
“In this clip, Snoop Dogg talks about starting his youth football league and the impact that it has had over the last decade-and-a-half.
“Snoop also discussed the future of football, particularly due to the groundbreaking CTE research. He believes that teaching the game the ‘right way’ can help prevent many of the brain related injuries that come from football.
“Later on, Snoop revealed that many of the coaches for the Snoop Youth Football League are ex-gang bangers. Snoop talked about the impact that these men and their personal histories have on the youth that they coach on and off the field.”
Posted on March 21, 2018
By The Windy City Rollers
Join the Windy City Rollers (#25 in the world, #1 in Chicago) in our season opener on March 24 as we begin our road to championships!
Doors open at 5 p/m. At 6 p.m, Third Coast (Windy City Rollers – Chicago, IL) will clash with the South Shore Roller Girls (Hammond, Indiana). Then it’s WCR vs. WCR as the Windy City Rollers All-Stars/Second Wind team splits up and goes head-to-head.
Posted on March 20, 2018
By Jim Coffman
One sad result of the Sweet 16 run by that local team folks have been talking about is that, going forward, fewer locals will be stumped when asked to identify the only Chicago team to win an NCAA men’s basketball tournament. That trivia question has been almost as good as “What is the second-most popular participatory sport in the world?” The first is soccer, of course. The second is . . . badminton.
The answer to the first question was and is Loyola University. And not only did the Ramblers win it in 1963, they did so with the first title-winning team to feature African-American players. (A few years later, Texas Western (now Texas-El Paso) was the first squad with five black starters to win it all.)
If nothing else comes of the current Ramblers run, fans can celebrate a renewed focus on the program’s shining moment 55 years ago.
Posted on March 19, 2018
By Rick Eckstein/The Conversation
In a legendary South Park episode lampooning the NCAA, the character Eric Cartman asks a university president if he can purchase some of his “slaves” – er, “student-athletes” – who play men’s basketball.
“How do you get around not paying your slaves?” Cartman wonders.
The outraged university president kicks Cartman out of his office. But if the president were being honest, all he would have to do is utter one name: Walter Byers.
Posted on March 16, 2018
By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
Starring Jonah Hill as Bo Rambler. Plus: New Bears Free Agent Haul Replaces Old Bears Free Agent Haul; Score Card; Grimm Reaper; White Sox Boo-Boos; Fire Fail; Tick-Tock, Blackhawks Clock; and Diva Delle Donne.
Posted on March 16, 2018
