Category Archives: General

My Sept. 9 Wisch List column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky Boasting popular breweries such as Goose Island, Revolution and Half Acre, Chicago is known far and wide for its beer offerings. But for its wine? Well, not so much. That, however, […]

My Sept. 1 Wisch List column from The Daily Journal (Kankakee) and The Times (Ottawa) … By Dave Wischnowsky The WISCH LIST The place hasn’t claimed as many managerial careers as that famed burial ground at Clark and Addison in Chicago, but down at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, things rarely end well for Fighting Illini […]

My CBS Chicago column from Aug. 31 … (CBS) His management of Illinois’ special teams was, well, special. His ability to keep track of the score wasn’t exactly something you could count on. And if he wasn’t making a bad clock-management decision, then the guy probably wasn’t making any decisions at all. Nevertheless, in spite […]

My piece for ChicagoSide on Aug. 31 … Ron Zook is in the CBS Sports Network studios. Bruce Weber is in Manhattan, Kansas. And Chief Illiniwek? He’s in absentia. Former AD Ron Guenther is in retirement. His successor’s competency is still in question. Meanwhile, the football program is in the hands of a coach we […]

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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 […]