Headlines for November, 2007

A Special Coach for Special Teams

Seasons are built and lost as much by off-season moves as by what happens on the playing field. True, if football was played on paper, last year's Super Bowl would have been Miami versus Carolina, according to some pundits. Instead we got Bears v. Colts. And the world is thankful for this, since a Carolina-Miami Super Bowl would have stunk [read more...]

Leading By Example

Sometimes life doesn't go according to plan. Things happen. We have great dreams when we're young, but many times are faced with unfortunate circumstances that get in our way, slow us down or completely blind us to our youthful vision. And yet, when those dreams and aspirations meet roadblocks along the way and don't become reality, too often we blame [read more...]

Can a Window Be Closed Before It Opens?

Let me take you back, Bulls fans. Take you back a few years and a million lifetimes ago, before I ever had any foolish dreams about wanting to be a writer. Entering the 2003-04 season, Bill Cartwright was the coach of a young Bulls franchise that featured unproven young bucks: Eddy Curry, Tyson Chandler, Jamal Crawford, Jay Williams, and a rookie [read more...]

Denver’s Great Hester Experiment

The clinical definition of "insanity" is surprisingly free of references to slobbering, yelling or gnawing of limbs. It also lacks mention of eating turkey until pain sets in or vomiting occurs. Rather, the definition of insanity is simply stated as doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results each time.On Sunday, two teams and their respective coaches [read more...]

Bears Playing Chicken

"The trick to playing chicken is knowing when to blink" -The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy The game of "chicken" is a time-honored test of courage. Often it is played by those claiming to be brave, or those too stupid to understand their mortality, since most games of chicken involve some chance of death. They are nonetheless a great spectacle [read more...]

Bad, Bad Chicago Bulls

Even though I know for a fact that Bulls coach Scott Skiles reads my columns on a regular basis looking for guidance, he neglected to take my advice concerning changes to the starting lineup. He ended up replacing Tyrus Thomas with Andres Nocioni, rather than moving Ben Gordon to the bench. While Noce had been playing well enough to deserve to [read more...]

Seattle Sadness

In the composition of an opera, the composer faces many challenges of timing. When should the couple fall in love? When should the hero be tempted? How should the villain cross the aforementioned lovers?Most importantly, when should the ubiquitous "fat lady" come on to sing? Fans in Chicago who watched the game in Seattle had only one choice: to wonder if [read more...]

Cubs Should Proceed With Caution in Free Agent Market

Yesterday the Cubs walked up to the lunch stand called free agency, handed the cashier a c-note for the ham sandwich known as Scott Eyre, and generally caused the rest of the sandwich buyers to ask, "Did that dude just drop a hundy for a ham sandwich?"Or maybe it's just me. And because Jim Hendry seems to have that five-years-at-fifty-and-we're-done look [read more...]

Charging the Defense

To those who believe in statistics, lottery tickets and the "foolish" people who throw away dollar bills for them are a complete mystery. To a stat-head, a lottery ticket doesn't reflect $100 million, but rather only a 1 in 275 million chance of winning. By that logic, it's insanity to waste your money when the stats tell you that there [read more...]

Kane, Toews and the Return of the ‘Hawks

Come on - really. Who doesn't love a puppy, or a kitten, a baby panda or a newborn professional hockey player? It's natural to have affection for a species' youngest members, and when that species is Skaterus Blackhawkus (my high school Latin teacher would be so proud) it means good vibrations are running rampant at 1901 W. Madison Street.The Hawks [read more...]

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