Category Archives: General

My June 27 column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Sitting 15 games out of first place, the Chicago Cubs couldn’t be much further from a world championship right now if they were, well, living on a different planet. But some day – if we’re to believe Tom “We will win a World Series for our […]

The #Cubs have designated Carlos Marmol for assignment. I wonder if he can walk himself to Iowa. — Dave Wischnowsky (@wischlist) June 25, 2013

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) If I was a decade younger – heck, half a decade younger – I might still be out on Clark Street this morning. Hopefully, not lying in a gutter. But while my 37-year-old self didn’t crowd surf on any metal barricades, fire off any fireworks or tick off […]

From the Saturday, June 22, editions of the The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky The 1980s were good to many in America. But they weren’t very good to pinball. After the introduction of microprocessors elevated pinball into the wildly popular realm of electronic gaming […]

Saturday’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Over the years, Chicago has seen a lot of bad baseball. (Have you noticed?) But it’s been a long time since the city has seen baseball as bad as this on both sides of town. Heading into Friday’s games, both the Cubs and the White Sox were mired […]

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) He arrived in Miami predicting “Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven” NBA championships, which leaves us to assume that LeBron James bolted Cleveland for South Beach to win eight crowns with the Heat. And if King James ever truly expects […]

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Since midway through Ron Zook’s final season, the University of Illinois football team has enjoyed about as much good news as it’s enjoyed victories. In other words, next to none. But on Monday, the moribund Illini program got its biggest win in quite some time when rocket-armed Oklahoma […]

Last Saturday’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Chicago is No. 1. Again. Remarkably, for the third year in a row, the Windy City is home to the No. 1 high school basketball player in America, with rising Whitney Young senior Jahlil Okafor following in the large footsteps of prior Public League phenoms Jabari Parker […]

This weekend’s Wisch List newspaper column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky During wintertime, Chicago is undoubtedly a Bears town. During summertime, it’s always been a baseball town. And during Jordan’s time, it was a Bulls town. But during this current time in […]

Today’s column from CBS Chicago … There are shapes now moving, Two Ghosts that drift and glide, And which of them to tackle Each rival must decide. They shift with spectral swiftness Across the swarded range, And one of them’s a shadow, And one of them is Grange – Grantland Rice (CBS) The Ghost hasn’t […]