World Series Game Six: The Best Worst Game Ever
The Cardinals win on an extra-innings walk-off home run by a St. Louis native, capping a game that will go down in World Series history as one of the best… and one of the worst.
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6 Things About Ozzie Guillen (and One About Sandy Alomar Jr.)
The first good profile of the erstwhile White Sock; Ozzie and his wife on WCIU’s “Beisbol ’86”; leadership advice on the importance of running your mouth; and more.
Bears-Packers Postmortem: A Mike Martz Team Without Great Receivers Is Not a Mike Martz Team
The Bears are 1-2 and not running the football… unlike last year, when they were 3-0 and not running the football. It’s not time to panic yet, but I wouldn’t get too excited either.
The Eternal Tension of Amateur and Professional Sports
Blockbuster articles in The Atlantic and Sports Illustrated have people calling for the professionalization of amateur sports. It’s a debate that’s gone on as long as the two have uneasily co-existed in America.
Adam Dunn Rises to the Top of Another Dubious Leaderboard
Adam Dunn has had the worst season by any player in the past two decades, and the ninth-worst in the past 50 years. But he has provided us with some interesting statistics to enliven an otherwise-boring baseball season.
The Next Cubs GM: Why Not Kim Ng?
Starting as a White Sox intern out of the University of Chicago, Kim Ng became the youngest assistant GM in baseball history, and most recently spent nine years with the Los Angeles Dodgers before moving to the commissioner’s office. Her name regularly comes up when a GM job opens. Could she be a good fit for the Cubs?
Jim Hendry Out as Cubs GM
The Cubs’ embattled general manager gets cut, just a few days after reports that his job with the team was safe. Did his inaction at the trade deadline do him in? And is Sam Zell to blame? [Update: Hendry knew for almost a month before today.]
The Cubs: A Bad Baseball Team, a Good Franchise
No matter how bad they are, the Cubs always outdraw most teams in baseball. But during previous failed seasons, there was something interesting about the team. Could this year be the one that they’re both bad and boring enough to give the franchise some incentives?
So Long, Olin: A Kreutz, Er, Sayonara
The Bears’ veteran center is a surprise off-season departure, given the mere half-million-dollar gap between the two parties, and the Chicago football world is shocked. But something on the Bears’ O-line has to change.