Cubs Report: Spring Training Preview

Look outside and depending on where you are you might see some interesting things: 1) If you live in the Midwest you’ll see some snow on the ground. 2) If you live on the east coast you’ll see a lot of snow. 3) If you live where I do you’ll see Karry...

Green Street Journal: The College Days Come Back To Haunt Me

Hey, it?s time for my semi-weekly (Occasionally you will get more, occasionally you will get less, and you?ll like it!) column to start here on Desipio. First, in case you don?t know, Green Street is a major street in the campus area of Champaign-Urbana. So, that is...

Daily Dose: Let it rain!

It’s probably safe to say that every year there is more film footage wasted in shooting trite, horrible romantic comedies than any other kind of movie. For chrissakes this is the genre that expected us to believe that Meg Ryan would sleep with Billy Crystal, and...

Daily Dose: OK Greggie, time to pick

The Cubs Convention is over, and so is the Inaugural Desipio Cubs Convention (which was also a huge success–at least once we came up with enough bail money for Domingo Ramos and Barry Foote). There’s less than a month before spring training and despite...

Rock’s Newest Hero

Enervated by an attack of unrelived nostalgia (which, as Abbie Hoffman so acutely noted, is a mild form of depression); life can be a daunting thing. When all you’ve ever asked from life has already happened, struck and sparked and burped and faded, some 27...