This weekend’s Wisch List newspaper column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky Having combined for a record-setting 195 losses, the Cubs and White Sox didn’t exactly make 2013 the best year ever for their fans. Thankfully, 2014 is off to a better start. […]
Monthly Archives: January 2014
A Brave In The Hall, But Is Maddux A Cub At Heart?
Friday’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Come July, Greg Maddux will enter the Hall of Fame with an Atlanta Braves cap emblazoned on his plaque. And that’s absolutely as it should be. But are you absolutely sure that’s also his preference? I’m not. In fact, it’s long been my suspicion that if truly given […]
Blowout Gives Illini Something To Forget – And Remember
My Jan. 8 column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Buckle up, Illini fans. And, well, Bucky up, too. Because, remember, this isn’t going to be a smooth ride. Did you think that it was? “You have to have amnesia,” Illinois basketball coach John Groce said late Wednesday night after his squad was humbled defensively, offensively […]
Chicago Fans Deserve Thomas-Maddux HOF Induction
My Jan. 7 column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) I grew up in Bourbonnais, which at 55 miles is far enough away from Chicago to not really be considered suburbia, yet close enough to the city’s southern border that you might think that it was White Sox Country. It wasn’t. No, just like most of […]
To become high-speed hub, Union Station needs cash
From the Saturday, Jan. 4, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky If Wrigley Field is Chicago’s Friendly Confines, then Union Station has to be the city’s unfriendly one. But just like Wrigley, changes are being discussed for Chicago’s aging transportation center as […]
NFL Is Already Dumb For Its Cold-Weather Super Bowl
My Jan. 3 column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) “Bear Weather” is bull. And if anyone says that they truly love attending football games played in bitterly cold temps, well, I’d say that’s a bunch of hogwash, too. You might tolerate such weather. You may even embrace it (for a quarter). But to say that […]
5 Things You Didn’t Know About The Rose Bowl
My Jan. 1, 2014, column from CBS Chicago … As the Granddaddy of Them All, it’s always a big game. But, fact is, the Rose Bowl hasn’t been much of a B1G game for years. In fact, since the 2000 season, the Big Ten has gone just 1-9 vs. the Pac-12 on New Year’s Day […]
Maddux Should Be A Unanimous HOFer
My Dec. 31, 2013, column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Come next week, Greg Maddux will make the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. But he almost certainly won’t make it in the way he should. And, no, I’m not talking him sporting a Cubs cap on his plaque. (Although that would certainly be nice.) Rather, […]