in Alfonso Soriano, Ben Wallace, Boxing, Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Pistons, Tank Johnson | View this letter only | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) as an excuse? Look, the Cubs lost every one-run game before Hancock’s tragic accident, so what’s the excuse there? The lame get lamer.
How many times does 6 go into 3? Answer: The Cubs outfield. So, now you know why Lou Piniella doesn’t like all the questions that come all the time, and I’m thinking, get an outfield that looks big league instead of a big mistake and we’ll stop.
how to find happiness: Lower expectations, and if your steak isn’t done right, then throw it back. the Bears draft players from colleges, the Lake County court system drafts a Bear. Just hope Tank Johnson doesn’t have DuPage, LaSalle and McHenry on his road schedule.
of what passes for feel-good stories in the NFL these days. Monday also saw the re-emergence of the rap song by University of Miami players, the one that uses all the naughty words and despicable acts that demean women, the one featuring a certain rapper known as “G-Reg” who moonlights as Greg Olsen, the Bears No. Jerry Angelo must be so proud that he can brag about Olsen as not just a player for Virginia McCaskey’s team, but also as a person to represent Virginia McCaskey’s team.
From the wonderful people who brought you Christian Peter … Josh Beekman’s dad was a guard at a juvenile detention center. Makes you wonder if the Bears drafted a replacement for Roberto Garza or a roommate for Tank Johnson. for particular reasons.
Gilbert Arenas, for instance, wears 0 because he was told that’s how many minutes he’d play at Arizona. Jimmy Rollins jokes that he wears 11 because the vertical strokes make him look taller. And then there’s the story of Mitch Williams’ wearing No.
28 with the Cubs and wanting to keep it when he joined the Phillies, so he bought to number from John Kruk for two cases of beer. Mavericks coach Avery Johnson is sick of Dirk Nowitzki’s whining about not getting a lot of looks and having his confidence shaken in getting pushed toward elimination and humiliation by Golden State. Hey, if Johnson wants, he can go back to hearing Dwyane Wade talk about how the Mavericks have no chance as long as the heartless Nowitzki is the alleged leader.
Maybe the Mavs need The Warriors have captured the famous face of “Almost Famous” Kate Hudson and co-“Wedding Crasher” Owen Wilson, backing Golden State guard Baron Davis. “They’re all Baron’s friends,” Warriors guard Stephen Jackson said. “He’s really Hollywood, don’t you know.
” Want to ditch jury duty? Go fishing with the “Big Tuna.” the “Steinbrenner backs Torre” -- the kind of headline that is written in grease pencil.
the stories about the drug-selling Mets clubhouse guy just see if anyone names names. Jeez, where the grand jury leak when you need it? With 50 Lost Home Runs.
” It’s The Onion, so it’s both not true and quite funny. Rick Majerus has kept the St. Louis job for close to five days.
That ties his last job. But the real story is how Majerus looks like he was hired by his twin brother. tells Victoria’s Secret to take this peignoir and shove it.
in Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Cubs, Greg Olsen, Lou Piniella, Tank Johnson | View this letter only | Comments (11) | TrackBack (0) Bulls-Heat Game 4, and I'm thinking, is this all Miami has? In an elimination game? But I guess that was the story of this series.
Imagine how bad the Heat would have been if they hadn't had the motivation of Kirk Hinrich's remarks? Best part was, the Bulls celebrated like they'd been there before, or better yet, like they expect to be there again. Luol Deng was the best player in the series.
Ben Gordon was next. You know, I'm not sure Miami had a best player. just like the bad old days, except this time the toughest guy in the room is playing for the Bulls: You couldn't have written it up no better than this.
a tight end from Miami and the scouting report is that he has good hands. Most of the tight ends from Miami indeed have good hands. Best part is, this Greg Olsen kid has a degree in criminology.
So, the team that endorses Tank Johnson deviated from their usual draft philosophy and took the best locker-room lawyer available. Rex Grossman is thrilled about his new target and can't wait to overthrow him. about this Dan Bazuin guy the Bears drafted in the second round, but I did know that he's a left defensive end from Central Michigan who had just as big an effect on the Super Bowl as Adewale Ogunleye did.
more about this Bazuin guy, starting with the brother that committed suicide. Sounds like the Bears drafted somebody with a work ethic in his past instead of a work-release program in his future. defensive tackle is the biggest problem.
Tommie Harris is coming back from surgery and Dusty Dvoracek is coming back from injury, so neither is a gimme. Tank Johnson will go from Cook County Jail to Roger Goodell jail. Maybe Anthony Adams is right for this system, maybe not.
I'm thinking that Mark Anderson's supernova development put Alex Brown in the middle a lot this year. I love the concept of itty-bitty Garrett Wolfe as a change-of-pace back, but everybody ought to be concerned whether Cedric Benson can keep up a healthy pace. We'll see if Michael Okwo can play weak side linebacker the way the Bears want, but this guy's from Stanford, and with Hunter Hillenmeyer from Vanderbilt on the other side, the Bears at least will contend for the NFL Jeopardy title.
the Trib's Fred Mitchell that I have to be a man about this. Guess I missed the class where they taught that being a man included refusing to honor agreements. a draft until three years later (except for the Redskins, who get a D this year and already have a D for next year), but we in the media do it immediately because it's what we in the media do in this microwave-slash-Internet-slash-TiVo world.
So I know why Don Pierson wrote this report card. Better to use this as a chance to see how the other three divisions in the NFC have nearly caught the North as the worst. I mean, who do you really fear?
Fewer teams than last season, I'm betting. Few Super Bowl losers get back to the playoffs -- heck, the Super Bowl-winning Steelers didn't even make it -- but the expected incompetence of the NFC makes the Bears a big favorite for one of the top two seeds. and the Bears don't take a quarterback?
If you don't draft one, I guess, you can't be accused of not knowing what to look for. Brady Quinn beating anyone who's better than him, and that trends apparently includes the draft. from Greg Witham: I guess Cleveland took Brady Quinn with the 22nd pick in the NFL draft just in case Army, Navy and Michigan State are on the schedule next year.
'' , the NFL's vice-president in charge of protecting wide receivers, opened the second day of the draft by saying the Los Angeles Raiders are on the clock. This will be the best organization that Randy Moss has ever embarrassed. Naturally, the spineless Moss told the New England media that the media is the source of his problems and he's never been selfish.
This, from the guy who famously said, I play when I want to play and walked out on his team while a game was still going on. Good to see he's in midseason embarrassment. Don't tell me the Sox without Jim Thome are going to be the Cubs without Derrek Lee.
Hard to figure who has it worse: Brian Anderson, who won't continue to embarrass himself in the majors for now, or good friend Brandon McCarthy, who apparently will. The former Sox pitcher walked three batters and hit another -- in the first inning -- and the jumpy young man saw his ERA jump to 9.90 and apparently is chasing the Dow Jones.
McCarthy says he's rushing himself and needs to work on slowing down: If I have to walk slower, if I have to pick my nose in between pitches, if I have to become the biggest rain delay in the league. There are times I think the Sox wanted him to take Ritalin or Adderall or some kind of focusing drug and he refused and they knew they had to deal him. of built-in barbecue doesn't Bob Howry understand?
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