Bernstein: No Such Thing As NCAA 'Snubs'
Any team that misses the NCAA tournament deserved to miss it. Next year, do something about it.
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Any team that misses the NCAA tournament deserved to miss it. Next year, do something about it.
Gregg Williams and others may have broken the rules as they tried to get the most out of their defensive players, but they were not making NFL football something inherently worse than it was, is, or will be.
It has taken years to reach this point, but the combination of medicine, awareness, tragedy and marketing sense has pushed hockey to the brink of real culture change.
Four months after the world found out about the sick activities at Penn State, the big boys are finally involved.
This may be simply because I watch so many Bulls games on DVR, but I'm itching to fast-forward to the playoffs. Push a button, blur it by, and get on with it.
If this pathetic, blubbering mess of failure and self-flagellation is to be somehow disinfected, it will take some real soul-searching before a reconstruction plan can be created.
As with Tim Tebow, the story becomes the story. It's not about the person, anymore, but the reaction to the person, and then the reaction to the reaction.
It's rare that a cause inspires me to add my name to an online petition.
Sources tell WSCR that Tice was unhappy about the team's public position that he needed so much help to do his job, and made his feelings known to Lovie Smith.
Commissioner Roger Goodell stood before the media at his annual Super Bowl state-of-the-league speech, and sounded as if he cared when addressing issues of player safety.
A year removed from the experience, we tend to forget that consuming the Super Bowl can be a chore if not handled correctly.
The Bears decided on their new general manager after sifting through a list of names that caused no excitement, whatsoever, arriving at the perfect culmination of their tedious, uninspiring process.
It's probably a bad idea to protest the trampling of your rights and liberties by…exercising them.
No number of victories stacks up against what these boys and their families lost. Not even 409.
Amid the usual, goofy hokum of the annual Cubs Convention came the announcement of a proposed redesign of Wrigley Field's right-field bleacher area.
It's been a nice few days for the Rationalists -- the few of us that seem to exist at times -- as veneers of myth were stripped away from polarizing storylines, and the truth exposed.
With last week's rambling, incoherent press conference at Halas Hall providing the perfect symbolic catalyst for his efforts, team president Ted Phillips apparently decided to race back to his office and play Angry Birds.
You know me well enough to understand that I'm not exactly the sentimental type, so indulge me while I take my turn in acknowledging the 20th anniversary of WSCR Radio, promising that I won't pander. I'll leave the obsequiousness to others.
You can't simultaneously hire a real general manager and reaffirm the alpha-dog status of your head coach. Not possible.
There will be plenty of success for the Bulls, but those pleasant surprises – the kind that made last season so special – will have to wait.
A letter from 382 former Penn State football players was released Wednesday showing support for Joe Paterno. Below is that letter in its entirety, with my comments in italics:
They did it front of the stunned, silent home fans, displaying the truth of their thin, banged-up roster and making clear what has probably been the story since Jay Cutler got hurt: they never had a shot.
I guess we have the most practical definition yet of Franchise Quarterback.
Never again do I want to have another leaflet-passer on the corner look me in the eye, grin vacantly and say "Jesus loves you."
I'm done with Carlos Zambrano. The Cubs, however, may not be.
