Trade deadline special

Before you bunch your undies and scream to the heavens that Jim Hendry could have waited a week and gotten Aaron Boone for one good minor league pitcher, consider that a) it’s not true, b) how did your undies get bunched? Yikes. Boone to the Yankees. Ventura to...

Daily Dose: They’re sucking us in again

It really doesn’t matter what you tell yourself. You can hide behind a blanket of skepticism and try and convince yourself that just like every other year since 1945 the Cubs aren’t going anywhere. Then you settle in and watch their fourth best starter...

Hard Knocks (sort of): Notre Dame 2003

ESPN has announced that they will be following the 2003 edition of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in a weekly series, every Tuesday night called “The Season.” It might not exactly rival “The Season: Oakland Raiderettes” but it should come darn...

Daily Dose: Who wouldn’t pay for the insight of David Huh?

As you know, this site has had its moments with ChicagoSports.com over the years. They don’t like us, and we think they’re wasting some pretty cool resources. Honestly, if you had access to the Chicago Tribune’s sports columnists and sports stories,...

Daily Dose: Big Z to the rescue

Unlike some sites on the ‘net, we’re rational Cubs fans here. (If there is such a beast.) You and I both know that the odds of seeing October baseball with this current bunch are right up there with Lyle Lovett marrying Julia Roberts. OK, bad example....