Daily Dose: Three more years!

On Friday the Cubs signed Kerry Wood to a three year deal, and then on Saturday they did the same with Derrek Lee. In both cases, the players took a “pay cut” in 2004 and will get that money back (and then some) in 2005 and 2006. This gives the 2004 Cubs a...

Daily Dose: Grasping at straws?

If there’s one thought that causes me to wake up in the middle of the night and worry, it’s this. “What if the raccoon who lives on the roof falls through the attic and lands on me?” No, wait, that’s not the one. Though, it’s a...

Baseball Movies — The rebuttal

In Tuesday’s Tribune, Seabiscuit’s Jockey, the diminuitive Paul Sullivan penned a column in which he gave his personal highs and lows in the history of sports movies. He didn’t do a terrible job. But then again, it wasn’t that great, either....

Daily Dose: Fine, everybody’s on steroids. Happy now?

There are times when sports radio comes in handy. Like for instance when you are depressed and think you’re the dumbest person in the world. You just fire up WSCR-AM or ESPN Radio 1000 and within five minutes you have the safe feeling that no, indeed, there are...

Bubble Squads and Broads

Florida State (17-9), Oklahoma (16-7), Seton Hall (16-7), and Florida (15-8) look as if they’ll all fall short of the 20-win milestone…but despite what you may hear, they have nothing to worry about and don’t qualify as true “bubble”...

Daily Dose: Harbinger of a Konerko deal?

Longtime intrepid reader TJ Brown sent this along today from Robert Feder’s column in the Sun Times. Dialing: Swieca quits Score *Chicago’s leading sports-talk radio station has lost its only female host. Julie Swieca resigned Monday after 10 years at...