Bernie Lincicome
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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...
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Lincicome: A little of this, a little of that, a little of something elseMar 01, 2025 10:00 am - Some things you suspect, some things you guess and some things you just know. Spring training baseball teams and housebroken dogs look great on paper. Baseball in summer ...
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Lincicome: Do politicians really have to bring their fights to hockey again?Feb 22, 2025 10:00 am - Geopolitics has apparently invaded the world of sports again, usually the domain of the Olympics and of soccer but recently stirred by ice hockey, where anthems were booe...
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These all-star events are all fun and games — or notFeb 15, 2025 10:49 am - It has been widely implied that the NBA All-Star Game has been improved and should be taken seriously. Just kidding.