Category Archives: General

My Friday, Oct. 25, column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) There may be plenty of fish in the sea, but when it comes to the pool of high school basketball recruits, there simply aren’t many 6-foot-8, 225-pound marlins out swimming around in the waters. Cliff Alexander, however, would fit that gill, er, bill. And beginning […]

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) The Bears look like toast. The Illini football team hasn’t won a Big Ten game in 16 straight tries. The Cubs and White Sox combined to lose 195 games, and it felt like 300. Oh, and the Cardinals and Red Sox are in the World Series. Yes, right […]

From the Saturday, Sept. 19, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … Look up in the Windy City, and there’s a good chance you’ll spot the flag of Chicago flapping above you. Featuring a clean design of two blue horizontal stripes on a field of white, it includes four […]

Saturday’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) There was a time when Wisconsin football was Illinois football. In fact, it was even worse. Heading into the 1990 season, the Badgers hadn’t posted a winning record since 1984, and had won a total of just seven Big Ten games over the previous five years. Back during […]

My Oct. 18 column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) It’s been rumored that USC is interested in him. In recent years, his name has been linked to open head coaching positions at both Penn State and Michigan. And last winter, as Notre Dame prepared for the National Championship Game, he was mentioned as a potentialreplacement […]

Tuesday’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Unless you were, I don’t know, wearing headphones all day, there was no missing the news on Monday that it was the 10th anniversary of the Chicago Cubs’ so-called “Bartman Game.” And to mark the occasion, the headline above Rick Morrissey’s column in the Sun-Times read, “Cubs changed […]

From the Saturday, Oct. 12, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky Back in August, I was out in Boston’s Back Bay. Early one morning, I went for a jog through the neighborhood along Boylston Street, following the same path that leads runners […]

Saturday’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Manny Acta. Rick Renteria. A.J. Hinch. A.J. Hinch? If the names of the rumored candidates for the Chicago Cubs’ managerial opening don’t excite you now that the glamour pick, Yankees skipper Joe Girardi, has opted to stay in NYC, well, you’re hardly alone. But are you really surprised? […]

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Well, Joe Girardi doesn’t want to come back to Wrigley Field. But, hey, Sammy Sosa does. No, not as manager. (I don’t think.) Although, with the dearth of big league talent that the Cubs currently have on their big league roster, Sosa could probably lose just as many […]

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) What’s in a name? Forget that. What’s in a job title? At Northwestern University, it’s $16 million bucks apparently. Last Friday, Crain’s Chicago Business columnist Danny Ecker reported that NU trustee Christopher Combe and his wife Courtney have plunked down a cool $16 mil as a gift to […]