Long time, nothing’s changed

There’s nothing better than those year end retrospectives. Ahh, nothing beats 365 days of sports action distilled into three minutes of Bon Jovi. Really, I’m getting misty just thinking about it. Fortunately, we’re not going to do that today. Nah,...

Dealing the wrong ace

Baseball rumors are fun, and for all we know, the Mark Prior and Rich Hill to the Orioles for Miguel Tejada and Eric Bedard talk is just that, “rumors.” Would the Cubs deal one of their 24-year-old pitching aces to the Orioles for a former MVP shortstop? I...

Daily Dose: Premature Jockulation

Allow me to paint a scene for you. I’d just finished watching “The Office” Christmas episode for the second time in two weeks. I had some ludicrous New Orleans Bowl between Arkansas State and Southern Miss–being played, I think in...

Daily Dose: Good boy, Rex

You knew it was a big game because of how long the day seemed to take on Sunday. Given the Bears lack of success in recent years, they don’t do prime time a lot, and it can really screw up your couch time on Sunday when you have to wait until three hours after...

Cubs yet to fill right field glory hole

Much to Juan Pierre’s delight the Cubs made him fly north in a snowstorm to spend five minutes chatting up Bruce Levine and Seabiscuit’s Jockey. They gave Pierre one of Gabor Bako’s old togs and a quick tour of the “quaint” Cubs’...

Daily Dose: Snow blown

It’s obvious now what needs to happen. In fact, rarely has anything been so obvious. It’s time for Rex Grossman to start playing some football again. Time for him to strap it up and get out there. The only question is, should he play wide receiver or...