Wisch: How To Ping Life Back Into The Home Run Derby
Just like with baseball's record books, steroids pretty much ruined the derby. Or they at least messed the event up a lot.
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Just like with baseball's record books, steroids pretty much ruined the derby. Or they at least messed the event up a lot.
There aren't any brackets, you won't find anyone being sent to Dayton for a play-in game, and nobody – not even Bryan LaHair – gets a No. 16 seed.
Last week, before Chicago was swallowed whole by the arrival of Rizzanity, Theo Epstein spent a little time chatting with the media about another Cubs youngster.
Here's a list of five of the Bulls' most forgettable first-rounders from the past 25 years and what they're up to today.
Since 1985, it's the league's preferred way of dispensing its top picks, but these days the system – designed to launch basketball careers – instead spawns more conspiracy theories than Area 51.
So, major college football is finally getting a playoff. Now, can it get a new name, too?
As a kid, the guy was my favorite player, so I'm certainly biased. But when it comes to keeping score of the all-time greatest Hall of Fame induction speeches, I think Ryne Sandberg's wins in a rout.
For those wishing to trade a 22-year-old Castro, be very careful what you wish for.
When the Bulls come "home," they should open their practices up to the fans. At least to some of their fans. And at least some of the time.
Here in 2012, with just a handful of games left in his ninth NBA season, LeBron James has been to three Finals – but, as we all know, he hasn't won any rings.
Since 1945, the Sox have welcomed 15 rookie managers to their ranks, and in their first seasons at the helm, just seven have produced a winning campaign.
And as we bask in the hopeful afterglow provided by this week's draft, I thought it would be wise to also look back at some of the Cubs' biggest disappointments throughout the years.
If LeBron did go home, it would make for one heck of a story – a feel-good one at that, which, these days, is the opposite of all things LBJ.
And here at the quarter-way mark of the Cubs' season, I thought it would be interesting to see just what Sandberg, the team's twice-spurned managerial candidate, has been up to so far in 2012.
At the University of Illinois, the faces may change, but the drama does not.
Unlike in the NFL, NBA and NHL, Major League Baseball doesn't allow its teams to trade their draft choices.
For a franchise so synonymous with failure, one of the more remarkable facts about the Chicago Cubs is that they really haven't failed quite as much as you might think.
I've heard all the arguments for why the Cubs traded their best reliever, and none of them has been compelling enough for me to get on board.
They share the same age (23). They share the same team colors (red and black). And they even share the same work address (1900 W. Madison). But when it comes to their personalities – and their apparent pastimes – Patrick Kane and Derrick Rose remain worlds apart.
Illinois still needs a nonconference basketball opponent for its annual game at the United Center this December. Meanwhile, down at Kentucky, John Calipari's national championship Wildcats just broke up with Indiana, their longtime nonconference foe from the Big Ten.
When the news of Junior Seau's tragic death by apparent suicide broke on Wednesday afternoon, the tweets about the potential perils of playing pigskin started flowing soon after.
While I'm not a doctor – and didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night – I'm of the school of thought that if Rose's ACL was going to blow out, then it was going to blow out.
One week ago Friday, stacks of T-shirts bearing a new Chief Illiniwek logo appeared for the first time on the shelves of a sports apparel store at the University of Illinois.
When Michael Jordan retired from playing basketball in 2003, he was regarded as the best – period – to ever lace up a pair of high-tops. These days, however …
I'm a huge college football fan, but I've really never understood the appeal of the "Spring Game," which involves a school just competing against itself with absolutely nothing on the line. For example, a final score of "White 21, Red 20" just doesn't carry the same cachet as a final that reads "Wisconsin 21, Iowa 20," does it?
