Bernie Lincicome
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Lincicome: And the winner of the award for summing up 2025 is ...Dec 27, 2025 10:00 am - Time once again for the annual “Bernies,” awards designed to sum up just what kind of year it was in sports. Drum roll, please. The What’s He Taking Off if the Bears ...
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Lincicome: Confused about the NFL playoffs? Here’s a guide to helpDec 20, 2025 12:00 pm - Bracing for the NFL playoffs without Taylor Swift brings sighs and no anticipation at all, requiring attention be paid to the dull hows and whys of things, the way it was when football cluttered Christmas and beyond.
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Lincicome: There are many ways to have a ball, when you think about itDec 13, 2025 10:00 am - Beware of any argument that includes the phrase “when you think about it,” because it assumes that one of you is an idiot, not to slight the deep thinker who has noticed that football is not soccer.
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Lincicome: Just Sayin, the Heisman winner must stay above the Mendoza lineDec 06, 2025 10:00 am - The best part of the Heisman Trophy race is the way schools market their contending players, writes columnist Bernie Lincicome.
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Lincicome: The best award an NFL coach can win is keeping his jobNov 29, 2025 4:28 pm - Surviving the Eagles has undoubtedly made Ben Johnson the front runner for NFL Coach of the Year, and to him sympathy is offered, this coming from someone who remembers Matt Nagy, and fewer and fewer of us are willing to admit that.
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Lincicome: About an American Pope and his White Sox hatNov 22, 2025 10:00 am - The dumbing down of America is best represented by the baseball cap, once worn as a practical sun shield but now resting on the noggins of presidents and pizza deliverers...
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Lincicome: Bears taking more steps forward than backwardNov 15, 2025 4:17 pm - Seats remain on the Bears bandwagon, lately a bit more littered with disciples than with skeptics while words like “first place” and “playoffs” lurk louder than the usual...
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Lincicome: Of all the halls, baseball’s is the most famousNov 08, 2025 10:00 am - Former Major League Baseball players Don Mattingly and Dale Murphy should go into the Baseball Hall of Fame, writes columnist Bernie Lincicome.
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Lincicome: Accepting Williams’ ups and downs as Bears quarterbackNov 01, 2025 10:00 am - Learning to live with Captain YoYo, the Bears quarterback, is no less frustrating than ever, inconsistency being the one consistent thing before this quarterback and whomever the next one might be, writes columnist Bernie Lincicome.
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Lincicome: Where there’s sports, there’s a good chance you’ll find gamblingOct 25, 2025 10:00 am - As long as gambling is legal and pro sports leagues are making money off it, it’s hard to expect that athletes won’t participate in it, writes columnist Bernie Lincicome. And sometimes athletes might cross the line the law has drawn.