Daily Dose: Going once, going twice…

I have a number of reasons to dislike Rick Neuheisel. Most of them revolve around his chronic inability to beat Nebraska when he was at Colorado. But there are others. He was the quarterback at UCLA when the 1983 Illinois Big Ten Champs got whumped in the Rose Bowl....

Daily Dose: Morons from Ballmer to Paris

Let’s get this straight, some dumbass Orioles fan ran onto the field last night, got on his knees and threw pieces of cork at Sammy? Then, it took like three minutes for any security to show up and get rid of the lunkhead? This is what happens when the Baltimore...

After Further Review: Cubs Report — Team Turmoil

Either this current Cubs team is built of sterner stuff (not sterno stuff–though at times the defense has appeared flammable), or maybe the distractions just haven’t been as bad as we thought. It’s not like their best player has been hit in the head...

Daily Dose: Are crabs contagious?

Cubs shortstop Alex Gonzalez says that he likes going to Baltimore to play the Orioles because the Cubs are staying in the same hotel the Blue Jays stayed in when they went there every year. He said, “It’s on the water and you can just walk right down to a...

After Further Review: Never in doubt, Cubs get the Meat Loaf

The scene was set for more Cubs-Yankees drama. A national TV audience, a rare Sunday night game at Wrigley, big stars like John Cusack and…OK, Jim Belushi doesn’t count, and above all, the Cubs had a shot to make my “homer” two of three...

After Further Review: Better game, better result

It was supposed to be a coronation. It was supposed to be a national TV showcase for Roger Clemens to win his 300th game, he was supposed to strike out nine Cubs and get his 4,000th and it was the second to last best chance to flog the Sammy Sosa story to death....