Headlines for June, 2005

Bears Offseason Leads to Cautious Optimism

The Chicago Bears are coming off yet another disappointing season, a 5-11 campaign that was one of the ugliest in recent history. The artists formerly known as the Monsters of the Midway were nothing short of atrocious on offense and wrapped up 2004 in the NFC North cellar. Rookie head coach Lovie Smith knew he didn't have an offensive juggernaut on [read more...]

Book Excerpt: License to Deal

The following is an excerpt from the book, License to Deal: A Season on the Run with a Maverick Baseball Agent. Written by Jerry Crasnick. Arn Tellem, a devout fantasy baseball player who runs the basketball and baseball groups for SFX, was once described by Oakland general manager Billy Beane as having the intelligence of Alan Dershowitz coupled with the [read more...]

NBA Draft: The Would-Coulda-Shoulda Grades

Every NBA draft has its share of morning-after or season-after regrets, some more obvious than others. The grand champion of Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda is, and always will be, the Portland Trailblazers for taking Sam Bowie over MJ. More recently, you've got Detroit's selection of Darko Milicic over 'Melo and Flash-though the O'Brien Trophy has eased the pain of that one. But over the [read more...]

A Different Age Opinion

Spencer Haywood told the Associated Press, "Those people who say LeBron James is the best ever at 19, they never saw me play." And that's not even Haywood's most interesting opinion. Haywood also says raising the NBA age minimum is a good idea. This is news because Haywood is the same guy who sued the league in 1971 for the right to [read more...]

Thomas Nearly Twice The Man

With his second homer of the season Thursday night against the Rockies, Frank Thomas inched closer to the magic number. No, not 500. He's still at least two seasons away from that milestone. But with his 435-foot blast to dead center at Coors Field, he's only four home runs away from another noteworthy point: 442. When Thomas hits his 442nd home run, [read more...]

Sosa Who? Cubs have the MV-Lee

It was a mere 13 months ago when Cubs fans were questioning Jim Hendry's decision to bring Derrek Lee to Chicago in exchange for the team's first baseman of the future, Hee Sop Choi. Now, as Choi attempts to live up to his potential for the third different team in his young career, D-Lee has Cubs fans forgetting about another of [read more...]

The Trouble with Timo Perez

I never wanted to be this type of fan, but I turned into one Monday evening. With two outs, runners on second and third and the White Sox trailing the Angels 4-3, Timo Perez inside-outs a single to left field. Willie Harris scores, Joe Crede scores, and that's a White Sox winner. I stand up to cheer, pump my fist and open [read more...]

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