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By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
If you don’t know who the sucker is . . . Plus: Cubs Continue To Go Back In Time; Worst White Sox Trade Ever?; Bulls And Blackhawks Have A Lot In Common; Arlington’s Amber Alert; Red Stars Get The Gist; and The State Of Basketball.
Posted on February 26, 2021
By Thomas Chambers
There’s a really tired old hook about something dying from a thousand cuts.
It would be easy to beat that rug after Churchill Downs Incorporated’s announcement that it has put the land underneath Arlington Park up for sale.
But this is the result of at least 21 years of torturous murder sadistically carried out by executioners Richard L. Duchossois and the muscle of a faceless corporation that thrives and cackles on doing just this kind of thing. Corporations always get away with murder of all types in America. Don’t kid yourself.
Posted on February 26, 2021
By Roger Wallenstein
The year was 1960, the first time I attended a minor-league baseball game, featuring the Duluth Dukes hosting the Eau Claire Braves at Wade Stadium in Duluth, Minn. “The Wade,” as the locals call it, is a concrete fortress whose aluminum planks in the cheap seats can be downright frosty even in summer if the wind is blowing in an unfriendly direction off Lake Superior.
Our summer camp was 30 miles away, and a field trip to see the Dukes of the Northern League more than 60 years ago was a delicious treat.
Posted on February 22, 2021
By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
The biggest sports news in the city is the Bears not having a quarterback. When they get one, that will be the biggest news too. Plus: The White Sox Padres/Cubs/Cleveland Report; Too Soon, Cubs?; Banged-Up Bulls; Beautiful Blackhawks; and Basketball State.
Posted on February 19, 2021
By Special Olympics International
The Local Organizing Committee for the Special Olympics World Winter Games Kazan 2022 unveiled the global event’s logo during a ceremony at the Kazan Kremlin, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The logo carries rich symbolism and was developed in part with a competition for designers across Russia. The visual identity is based on winner Artemy Lebedev’s concept: Zilant – a mythical dragon creature and symbol of the city of Kazan – hugs a stylized tulip native to the Tatarstan region and serves as a representation of the Volga River. The depiction of Zilant hugging the logo is emblematic of friendship, hospitality, and joy.
Posted on February 18, 2021
By Jim Coffman
First of all, congratulations to Ryan Pace for not yet having made a lopsided trade for Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz or whichever other veteran signal-caller he might overpay for (with players and picks in a trade) and overpay (salary) in the current offseason.
I have a much better idea and will get to it shortly.
Posted on February 17, 2021
By David Rutter
The world of Lutheran angst and outrage is aflame this month with news that Valparaiso University’s sports mascot has been expunged and excommunicated.
The forces of cultural sensitivity arrived. The Crusader had to go because it violates political correctness norms, and that makes people on both sides itch as if they have hives or shingles.
But I arrive to tell my Missouri Synod friends that they are misguided in their outrage on the merits of the case.
Missouri Synod Lutherans often are oddly and angrily wrong, and who better to lecture them on their theological errancy than Lapsed Catholics?
Posted on February 16, 2021
By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
Super Bowl recap. Plus: Bears QB Epiphany; Bill Pecota’s Predictions; Building Blackhawks Better; Zach’s Lack; and State Of Basketball.
Posted on February 12, 2021
By Jim Coffman
Sports karma is a bitch.
And in this year’s Super Bowl, Boston fans received their second heaping helping of the last year-plus. This would be karma as it is experienced by people in their current lifetime, by the way. We are not getting into reincarnation.
Posted on February 8, 2021
By Natasha Julius
Whelp, aside from a glaringly obvious set list and some predictably unfortunate dancing, The Weeknd defied expectations. No covers, no scantily-clad dancers, and he did the one thing Brandon explicitly predicted he wouldn’t do – played tracks from the mixtapes.
He also found some clever and entertaining ways to get around the fact that half the audience was made out of cardboard.
Posted on February 8, 2021
