Headlines for March, 2005

2005 Cubs Long on Chemistry, Short on Math

As any current or former student knows, it's not always possible to put forth your best effort in every subject. This seems also to be true for the 2005 Cubs, who are headed for an A in chemistry but a C in math. The chemistry grade is a result of eliminating anybody associated with the bad karma of 2004. Gone are [read more...]

Question Marks Prevalent on the South Side

Few Major League Baseball teams have done less with more the last four seasons than the Chicago White Sox. After capturing an unexpected division title in 2000, the South Siders have missed the playoffs every year since despite continually having the most talent in the American League Central. The roster underwent its first significant overhaul in quite some time, as [read more...]

Two Versions of History

If only the curious have something to find, then what do we make of baseball? The more curious the sport became about a search for greater relevance and a way back into the hearts and wallets of its patrons, the less of its soul it found. In fact, it lost some of it. And as baseball became curious to find a [read more...]

Expectations Being Reeled in on the North Side

We know it can be done. If the Boston Red Sox can erase the Curse of the Bambino to win the World Series, not to mention overcome a 3-0 deficit to the New York Yankees in the process, anything in baseball is possible. The Chicago Cubs last won it all back in 1908, and thanks to the improbable events [read more...]

The Sporting Muse

Gonzaga Owes Me $10, So I'm Sending Bobby Knight to Bust Some Kneecaps I have never even come close to winning an NCAA bracket pool. It seems every year that I write in the upset specials, the Elite Eight is all 1 and 2 seeds, and every year I play the seedings, Cinderella stays up past her bedtime. Ah, but this year [read more...]

I Hate Mondays: Oversaturated Runninbacks

In the NFL, how many teams are really in the market for a workhorse running back?Go ahead, take a guess: 10? 5? 3? How about zero? Edgerrin James and Shaun Alexander, who are all allegedly on the trade block, are not garnering much interest. These two backs combined for over 3000 yards and 25 touchdowns last year, and even though the Colts are [read more...]

The Busting of a Bracket

The first day of the NCAA Tournament just happens to fall on St. Patrick's Day this year. These two events are the Hiroshima and Nagasaki of all-day drinking binges, so you can only imagine the imbibed devastation that will undoubtedly happen across America when the two are combined. Just like everyone is Irish on St. Paddy's Day, everyone is a [read more...]

Baseball’s Hangover Only Hurts Some

Man, this is some hangover. And how ironic. The day after St. Patty's, when half the world is reaching for Tabasco concoctions, regrettably sorting through big bar receipts, power-washing wretched breath with Listerine, and trying to understand where that lipstick on the collar came from, baseball itself is being forced to skip the snooze bar and address the bender it's been [read more...]

March Madness: Bursting Their Bubbles

You always can count on TV and radio analysts. They'll always find a way to let you down. Thus it was Sunday, March 13 when first Hub Arkush and later Joe Lunardi used their respective forums to suggest ways the NCAA Basketball Tournament can be improved. Sure the Big Dance could use a tweeking. What major event that evokes millions of [read more...]

Midweek Moonshine

No Brackets, No Pr…Yes, This is a Problem It was just thirty years ago that an NCAA Tournament bracket was a foreign entity. The NCAA Tournament--if you could call it that--once consisted of just four teams. The Final Four was given, not made. Which begs the obvious question: What the hell did people do? Apparently, just watch the games, though it [read more...]

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