Bernie Lincicome
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Losing made Bears the subject of the summer for ‘Hard Knocks’Jun 01, 2024 12:20 pm - Being a stranger to “Hard Knocks” is not a boast, nor is it a confession; it is just a fact. I blame the reluctance of the Bears to join in the summer cable show where, a...
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If the season is summer, we might feel compelled to move, but just a littleMay 25, 2024 2:00 pm - I see by my smartwatch that summer is nearly here. I could just look out the window to confirm it, but that is so analog. Or I could rely on the usual summer signposts, t...
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Lincicome: It’s up to Clark, WNBA to make the most of her popularityMay 18, 2024 3:07 pm - Curiosity has a short shelf life, so by the time basketball novelty Caitlin Clark arrives hereabouts we shall know what we already suspect, that being just another player...
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Whenever a game is in need of change, we’re ready with ideasMay 11, 2024 2:47 pm - As our favorite Nobel laureate reminds us, the times they are a changin,’ not to mention a shrinkin.’ Not to pick on Pickleball again. I am instead inspired by the new, c...
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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?