Bernie Lincicome
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Lincicome: Will the new Pope take requests from hometown pro sports fans?May 10, 2025 10:00 am - A happy few days of nonsense welcomed Chicago’s Pope to his new job, usually a solemn time for pontiffs, but then baseball — and religion, too — needs all the nonsense it...
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Lincicome: Pardon me, but Pete Rose really doesn’t need oneMay 03, 2025 10:00 am - How it is that Pete Rose has found further humiliation may need the asterisk, if not handy parenthesis, to explain his time in baseball and beyond. His was a case at rest, as is Rose himself, revived on a Presidential whim, along with tariffs and insurrectionists.
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Lincicome: Bears putting jokes aside, but not necessarily leaving them thereApr 26, 2025 11:57 am - Allow me to figure out what is a joke and what is not a joke, having more experience with such things than Bears GM Ryan Poles. But I do agree, no one is laughing. Sighing, head scratching, scoffing, yes, all of those. Laughter comes later.
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Lincicome: When it comes to the Bears and the NFL draft, expectations are anything but greatApr 19, 2025 10:00 am - I see by the uninvited calendar on my desktop that another NFL draft is nigh, an annual ritual where teams replenish themselves by pointing and saying, “We’ll take one of those.”
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Lincicome: For the play-in-bound Bulls, there’s nowhere to go but up and downApr 12, 2025 10:00 am - So here we are again, the Bulls facing another “play-in tournament,” sort of the electoral college of sports, designed to offer hope to the hopeless, allowing losers to think more of themselves than they rate, a false bottom in truth, a footstool for foot wipes.
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Spring brings the annual fairyland of golf, and pimento sandwiches cheese tooApr 05, 2025 10:00 am - As long as there is a Masters, there will be pimento cheese. On white bread, of course. The signature sandwich, like the place, is comfort food, and never more necessary.
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Lincicome: Baseball by the alphabet is a lot more than your ABCsMar 29, 2025 10:15 am - Nothing to it, ma. Baseball season is as easy as ABC, and so on.
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Lincicome: It’s a mad, mad March and we’re stuck in itMar 22, 2025 10:00 am - Nothing deflates like a busted bracket and mine broke early. My team to win it all, Kansas, could not win even one game, losing immediately to a team named, in Ozark speak, Ar-Kansas, not to be confused with Yer-Kansas, and that’s that.
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Lincicome: Baseball and Japan both are capable of surprising youMar 15, 2025 10:00 am - This just in. The national anthem will be sung on Opening Day by Yoshiki, a local lad, not to be confused with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the starting pitcher. Further highlight...
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Lincicome: A Rizzo return to the Cubs would be theater, and a great show indeedMar 08, 2025 10:28 am - The nobility of Anthony Rizzo has never been an issue, but even with all the synthetic statistics of modern baseball there is no measurement for class. Thus does Rizzo fi...