Ted Cox
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Here's a baseball guidebook with more than predictionsMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Not only does "Baseball Prospectus" remain my annual guidebook of choice, but it should get the title by acclimation after predicting the White Sox' 72-90 finish dead-on...
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'Miss Guided' finds its sense of direction -- if little elseMar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - TV isn't normally a director's medium, but it does tend to be a medium that favors comedy, and comedy is timing, so sometimes a director is key, even on TV. That turns o...
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The Adams Family: HBO does John, Abigail and founding fathers proudMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - The founding fathers, so forbidding as historical figures, come to life in all their contradictory complexity, their courageousness, self-sacrifice and mortal dread, in ...
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ESPN casts a lovely spell with 'Black Magic' documentaryMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Between Black History Month and the start of the NCAA Tournament, ESPN presents a new miniseries called "Black Magic," and it's all the more powerful for not trying to e...
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'Lil' Bush' big on infantile political humorMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - It's a bad week for television. First the best show on TV, "The Wire," ends its run on HBO, and now the worst show on TV makes an unwelcome comeback. That's right, belie...
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'Gilmore' creator returns to sitcom roots with 'Jezebel James'Mar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Oy with the sitcoms already. Your Friendly Neighborhood TV Critic gets as irked as anyone over the prevalent sameness of television. That's why when a show that breaks t...
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Breaking the 'Law'Mar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - From "House" to "Shark," unsympathetic characters are all the rage on TV these days, and they've expanded to women, at least on cable, with the likes of Holly Hunter's "...
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HBO stamps '30' on one of TV's finest dramasMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - One of the best shows in TV history comes to an end this weekend, but it's not getting the ballyhooed send-off of "The Sopranos" finale or the last "Seinfeld" or "Frasie...
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Score's best-laid game plan gets tossed around by StoneMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - WSCR 670-AM had plans to make today's White Sox exhibition game special, and it will be, but the Score's plans have nothing to do with it. Originally, today's game was s...
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Steve Stone replaces Singleton on White Sox radio broadcastsMar 04, 2008 10:00 pm - Barring a blockbuster trade involving Joe Crede, the White Sox pulled off what's likely to be their best deal of the spring when they announced Tuesday they were swappin...