NBA Playoff Time – 2 and 2 in the 2nd Round

There’s nothing like the 2nd round of the NBA Playoffs. There’s at least a game a day, usually more. And because none of the weakling teams that were just making up the numbers in the first round are there anymore, the attraction of 8 high quality...

Daily Dose: Ow, my arm! I think it’s broken!

The world officially ended at about 9:42 Central time last night. That’s when WGN came back from commercial and Glendon Rusch’s fat ass was standing on the mound pitching for the Cubs in the bottom of the third inning. Preliminary reports were that Kerry...

Jim Hendry, supergenius?

When E-ramis Ramirez launched a Shawn Chacon meatball onto Waveland to tie up Sunday’s game it just proved for the 1,000th time that finding a good third baseman isn’t rocket science. You just find one on a team who can’t afford him and you hold them...

Daily Dose: This has to be stopped

Somewhere, Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon have to be shaking their bald heads. This is their fault, you know. OK, fault is probably too harsh of a word, but if not for them, this might not have happened. At least not as swiftly as it has. Last night on Fox Sports...

Daily Dose: Ex-Cub factor

On Friday it was the tag-team combo of Shawn Estes and Turk Wendell. Yesterday it was Jeff Fassero. You know, sometimes ex-Cubs come in handy. And when they do it’s nice to harken back to the best days they ever had as Cubs. The days they packed their stuff up...

Green Street Journal: Final(s) Concern for the Weekend

It?s Saturday, and instead of sleeping off my hangover like 95 percent of my fellow students here in Chambana, I?m writing this article, studying for my remaining two finals next week, and getting ready to watch the Cubs take on Colorado. It?s multi-tasking, and it...