Bernie Lincicome
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Lincicome: Can Nagy's drive-through prowess help in the red zone?Sep 24, 2021 1:00 am - As founder and only member of the Matt's OK Society (MOKS) it falls to me to defend the regularly maligned and mistrusted coach of the Bears, an obligation I take on g...
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Lincicome: For starters, Fields does just enough to save the daySep 20, 2021 1:00 am - Ladies and gentlemen, keep your tweets. The moment you have been waiting for has arrived. Mark it down. At 13:48 of the second quarter of the second game of the Bears' s...
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Lincicome: There's no longer public indifference when it's Ryder Cup timeSep 17, 2021 1:00 am - I see by the old calendar on the laptop that it is time once again for that most useless of jingoistic taffy pulls, the Ryder Cup. Just up the road, in fact, on a golf c...
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Lincicome: When sports are played so close to the ashes of terrorSep 10, 2021 1:00 am - The New York Yankees were the home team of 9/11, some several weeks later and in another World Series, fourth in a row. Maybe it was the only time anyone outside New Yor...
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One thing's for certain - the Bears won't be 8-8 againSep 03, 2021 1:00 am - Pick one. The Bears are (a) rebuilding (b) rearranging (c) repeating. A case can be made for all three, I guess, but common sense and history lean toward (c). The Bears ...
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Lincicome: Are the White Sox ready to go from side dish to main course?Aug 27, 2021 1:00 am - What's that sound? Is that the rattle of a bandwagon? Hard to tell because it belongs to the White Sox. Softly. Softly. It seems the White Sox are ready to give us a Se...
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Welcome to baseball and gambling ... with apologies to Charlie HustleAug 20, 2021 1:00 am - Where to start? I guess apologies to Pete Rose is as good a place as any. To old Cub manager Leo Durocher, as well. Willie Mays. Mickey Mantle. Maybe Michael Jordan, too...
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Lincicome: Tim Anderson's walk-off homer wasn't exactly Hollywood on the farmAug 13, 2021 1:00 am - Baseball is not a movie but it wishes it was. That's why the White Sox and Yankees were playing in a pretend cornfield (the field, not the corn) the other night, trying ...
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Final curtain can't come soon enough for Tokyo GamesAug 06, 2021 1:00 am - Testing one of the truisms of sports - that it is not over until the fat lady sings - I assume Tokyo 2020 will close with a 400-pound sumo wrestler belting out "Thanks f...
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Lincicome: The Cubs are right back where they belongJul 30, 2021 1:00 am - Characterizing the dissolution of the Cubs as the “end of an era” is generous and laced with irony. One World Series victory is a highlight, not an era, and playoff fail...