Sports Columns
-
Mooney the lone bright spot at wide receiver, but draft and free agency provide hopeFeb 18, 2022 12:00 am - The Chicago Bears entered the 2021 season believing that if nothing else they had gone above and beyond all necessary efforts to fix their offensive woes by rebuilding t...
-
Arkush: There's only one way to go for Bears quarterback Justin FieldsFeb 16, 2022 12:00 am - Last season was supposed to be the year the Bears fixed a decades-old problem at quarterback. They signed veteran Andy Dalton in free agency and traded up in the draft t...
-
Blackhawks' Fleury understands he could be shipped out before trade deadlineFeb 16, 2022 12:00 am - It's trade rumor season again in the NHL. Normally a whisper here and there creates a few small ripples that basically go unnoticed. But when a possible Marc-Andre Fleur...
-
O'Donnell: Super Bowl ... Super Blah - was there any doubt a dramatic ending was in the flags?Feb 16, 2022 12:00 am - AS THE SOPHISTICATION of the National Football League has grown, a conspiracy theorist can do one of two things when watching a Super Bowl: • Suspend all reasonable susp...
-
A look at Blackhawks GM candidates and their odds for landing the gigFeb 15, 2022 12:00 am - When Stan Bowman stepped down Oct. 26 as the Blackhawks' president of hockey operations and general manager, the team handed the reins to a former intern on an interim b...
-
Gonzales: Hope springs eternal for baseball season to get startedFeb 14, 2022 12:00 am - Mike Kiley had to be talked into keeping his Cubs regular season tickets for the 31st consecutive year by a team executive, but the thought of missing spring training ga...
-
O'Donnell: Read some about it - an insouciant's incomplete guide to Super Bowl 56Feb 12, 2022 8:05 am - THE SUPER BOWL IS GREATER than most Hallmark holidays but not yet an official national day of rest and innovative outdoor grilling. This weekend, it will be contested on...
-
Retiring Streamwood coach Rosner made 'Beautiful Noise" for 40-plus yearsFeb 12, 2022 12:00 am - If you've ever been to a Streamwood girls basketball game, then you know that Sabres' coach George Rosner is a big fan of iconic musician Neil Diamond. Rosner blares Dia...
-
The 1972 Major League Baseball strike: When ballplayers struck out on their ownFeb 12, 2022 12:00 am - Don Kessinger belted a two-run homer to lead the Cubs to a 7-3 win over Cleveland in an exhibition game in New Orleans on March 31, 1972. But an exhibition of a differen...
-
Arkush: Rams and Bengals took two very different paths to Super BowlFeb 12, 2022 12:00 am - The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals will arrive at kickoff of Super Bowl 56 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Sunday from opposite ends of the NFL's developmenta...