Monthly Archives: December 2012

… Illinois, meanwhile, does not.

This weekend’s Wisch List newspaper column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky Wish lists are for Christmas. But Wisch Lists? Well, they’re for New Year’s. And now that we’ve survived the Mayan Apocalypse without world’s end, I wanted to share with you my […]

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) There are more than 20,000 seats inside the United Center. But Saturday afternoon, when the 12th-ranked Fighting Illini basketball team tips off against the Auburn Tigers, only about 13,000 of them are expected to be filled. For an athletic department that has declared its designs on becoming “the […]

Thursday’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) When it comes to college football, the state of Illinois has an attendance deficit. Here in the Land of Lincoln, we have three FBS programs in Illinois, Northwestern and Northern Illinois. The school’s home venues – Memorial Stadium (cap. 60,600), Ryan Field (47,130) and Huskie Stadium (24,000) – […]

My latest piece on Wednesday for ChicagoSide … He’s never won a bowl game. His career record in the Big Ten is 26-30. And, this season, his Northwestern Wildcats, while compiling an impressive 9-3 record, were perhaps best known for squandering leads. Nevertheless, Pat Fitzgerald remains as popular in Evanston as the Purple Line, and […]

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Come this evening in front of a rabid crowd in St. Louis, Illinois will defend its border against Missouri during the two schools’ annual Braggin’ Rights game. Three weeks from today, Illinois will defend its border against Wisconsin. The following month, it will stage a border battle against […]

This weekend’s Wisch List newspaper column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST Dec. 22, 2012 This week, a friend out in California wished me a Merry Christmas and said that perhaps I’ll find a new Illinois football coach in my stocking. I told him I’d settle […]

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Perception can be a funny thing. Last week, for example, after a Twitter storm about free agent pitcher Anibal Sanchez’s supposed imminent signing with the Cubs failed to blow anything but rumors into the Windy City, Chicago Tribune beat writer Paul Sullivan offered his take on the saga […]

Tuesday’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I’m pretty sure that old Charles Dickens didn’t pen those words with Notre Dame in mind, but here in the waning days of 2012, he certainly could have. That’s because, on one hand, the Fighting Irish […]

This weekend’s Wisch List newspaper column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … By Dave Wischnowsky The WISCH LIST Before he left Yale to become president of the University of Chicago in 1890, William Rainey Harper was billed as the “busiest man in America.” And it was said his stamina […]