Bernie Lincicome
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Through the generations, each athlete takes his rightful placeMay 05, 2024 6:00 am - Admitting to being generational myself, I am disturbed that I might have missed a few worthies along the way who managed to arrive without modern prepackaging, not to further pick on the Bulls for reluctantly choosing Michael Jordan third in the NBA draft.
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May they one day be making movies about Williams, set in a great new stadiumApr 28, 2024 6:00 am - Whenever I see artistic renderings of wonderful new stadiums or see overpraised new Bears quarterbacks, I think of the troop inspection scene from “The Dirty Dozen” when ...
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For the White Sox, less is more, especially when it comes to winningApr 21, 2024 6:00 am - The White Sox can only ruin it from here. Winning streaks, even little ones, will ruin everything. Victory is the enemy.
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O.J. Simpson, the story that keeps having to be toldApr 14, 2024 6:00 am - By rough count, I suppose I have written more than 10,000 words on O.J. Simpson, most of them when he was a football player, one of the best, when twice a season he played for the team that played the team where I once worked.
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Women’s basketball has joined the general silliness of March MadnessApr 07, 2024 6:00 am - The decision that allowed women to be Mad in March is marked as progress and happily coincidental with Caitlin Clark, who plays basketball. In fact, Clark managed to become the face of March Madness, much like, for entirely different and absurd reasons, Taylor Swift became the face of the Super Bowl.
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The ABCs of the baseball seasonMar 31, 2024 6:00 am - With baseball season so fresh you can still smell the hot dog mustard, duty demands baseball predictions. Anybody can do that. But can they do it in alphabetical order?
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Of March and Madness and all the other pairsMar 24, 2024 6:15 am - Madness and March have been with us ever since the hare stuffed the dormouse into the teapot, so there is no disputing its existence. How it came to have anything to do w...
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Whatever happened with Fields, Bears would regret itMar 16, 2024 9:20 pm - Curiously, the sympathy for noted wallflower and orphan quarterback Justin Fields grew daily as the human highlight film awaited his fate, not all that bad really. Fields...
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Pearls of wisdom, or are they gems?Mar 10, 2024 6:00 am - Sharing a little sports wisdom, courtesy of your local columnist.
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Will Williams be the next Chicago sports immortal?Mar 03, 2024 6:15 am - A bright shiny new thing awaits the Bears and all they need to do is point. His name is Caleb Williams and he is OK with it. Being a Bear, I mean. There was some buzz tha...