Monthly Archives: August 2012

Photo courtesy of Illinois Loyalty.

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) I’m not sure if Mayor Daley has a sense of irony – maybe he leased it to a private company – but if Chicago’s old boss does, its meter should have been running at a premium last week. That was when Daley, during an interview with Comcast SportsNet, […]

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Back on July 12, after Chicago Simeon hoops superstar Jabari Parker omitted the University of Illinois from his “Final 10” list of potential college destinations, I wrote that Parker had done the Illini a favor. I wrote how it was a blessing that Jabari wasn’t stringing Illinois along, […]

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) — Curious about the way that people in different parts of the country stereotype one another, venture capitalist and blogger Renee DiResta recently conducted an informal survey using Google’s quirky autocomplete function. State by state, DiResta started typing, “Why is [state] so,” into her Google search bar, and […]

This weekend’s Wisch List newspaper column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … By Dave Wischnowsky The WISCH LIST After a decade between the berms at Olivet Nazarene, Chicago Bears Training Camp isn’t quite the experience that it used to be. The NFL’s new collective bargaining agreement bans teams from […]

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Major League Baseball has a problem. Check that, Major League Baseball still has a problem. And Bud Selig & Co. needs to do all they can to actually nip it in the… well, in the bud before the problem’s latest incarnation can sprout into a weed that infests […]

LeBane, your reckoning is coming …

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) He can be a knucklehead on the basepaths, his glove isn’t exactly a golden one and he’s never met a pitch that he didn’t like. OK, love. But, despite the chinks in his armor, Starlin Castro’s impending seven-year, $60 million contract extension not only makes a lot of […]

Talked a little Cubs, a little White Sox, a little Bears and a little Illini football on Monday evening with my guys Lon Tay and Jeremy Werner on the “Tay and Jay Show” in Champaign. You can listen to the Connect-FM 93.5/95.3 podcast here.

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Down in Bourbonnais, Training Camp isn’t quite what it used to be. But I’m still glad that the Chicago Bears are down there amongst their fans, rather than hidden away from the masses on their Halas Hall compound. And here’s to hoping that things stay that way for […]