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The Great Quarterback Quagmire
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? What came first, the chicken or the egg? How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? What does Lovie Smith's choice of Kyle Orton to start the first game of pre-season – with Rex to start [read more...]
Finding Spare Change
Is there anyone else at Halas Hall that needs be paid? Rumor is that the janitor will be holding out for a new deal that includes a $2 million dollar signing bonus and free window cleaner. With the signing of Devin Hester to a deal that pays him wide receiver money before proving he can be a wide receiver, Jerry Angelo [read more...]
The Real Problem
Remember the 1997 film "Wag the Dog", starring Dustin Hoffman as a Washington, DC public relations executive and Robert De Niro as a Hollywood director? The plot involves a President who needs to cover up a sex scandal to be re-elected, so he calls on Hoffman and De Niro to create a fake war to divert the media focus. Soon [read more...]
Favre’s Possible Return a Blessing - For the Bears
Four months ago, Brett Favre claimed he was done with football. Done with two-a-day practices, done with the Lambeau Leap, done with throwing bullet screen passes and beautiful deep balls. After 15 years, one Super Bowl title and countless NFL records, Favre left the Green Bay Packers for a whole lot of nothing on his land in Mississippi.
Now that has [read more...]
Cedric Benson - Guilty, NFL Style
The Chicago Bears waived Cedric Benson after a second alleged intoxication beef in sunny, sultry, Austin, Texas. The first was for "Boating While Black (with a bevy of white women)" on the party waters of Lake Travis. For BWB Benson was dragged ashore face down through the lake and beaten. His mug shot shows clearly his battered eye and swollen [read more...]
Grading the Draft
The list of rules and rituals I don't like in pro sports is very brief. In baseball, I don't like that there's a foul poll and a foul line when we all know that if a ball lands on either of those barriers, the ball is fair. I find it annoying that NBA refs tend to call a block or [read more...]
Paranoid in Chicago
"It's not paranoia if everyone is really out to get you."
- Woody Allen
Someone at the league office owes the Bears a fruit basket. Something nice, with a couple of those "Cutie" tangerines that are so much better than the bruised naval oranges you often receive. Heck, even a leftover Hillshire [read more...]
The Bears Need to Draft Right
Saturday, March 06, 2004 - By Andrew JohnsosIt is just about the 19th anniversary to the Chicago Bears 1985 Super Bowl team. A fact that makes Bears fans I know feel quite old. Some will say that those were the days of Mike Ditka and Buddy Ryan leading the team. A leadership that could not be stopped. While Dave Wannstedt, Dick Jauron [read more...]
Bears QB Woes a Chicago Staple
8/19/2005 9:58:00 AM by John M. Crist There are precious few certainties in life. Everybody knows about death and taxes, of course, but I think the sports franchises in the city of Chicago have expanded our list of inevitabilities just a little bit. A last-place Cubs team will set attendance records in Wrigleyville while a first-place White Sox team will struggle to [read more...]
Bears, Like Ralston, Again Left Unarmed
8/29/2005 6:52:00 PM Aron Ralston is the stuff of legends. After being stranded for six days in remote canyonlands in Utah, here is a man who sawed off his own arm with a pocketknife, freeing himself from an 800-pound boulder. As in "Then I severed the tendon by hinging my arm…" You get the picture. So when Chicago Sports Review contributor Jen Hoffman interviewed him [read more...]
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Calling all Jets fans!
Grab your favorite Jets sweatshirt and green sweatpants because the team is calling for a Green-Out this weekend. This Sunday at Jets stadium is Fan [read more...]
Tebow vs. The Big 12
First and foremost I would like to apologize for my absence. My wife and I held a slew of birthday parties for my now three-year-old [read more...]
After a mediocre 23-10 win over the Jaguars (4-9) at home on Sunday, the Bears (7-6) keep their playoff hopes alive and maintain second-place divisional [read more...]
Anatomy of a Disappointment
(The Plaxico Burress Story.) The New York Football Giants went 11-1 today in a convincing win against the Washington Redskins. The Giants won the division showdown [read more...]
Big 12 South Proves that BCS is Flawed
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