The Cubs continued their payroll cutting ways this off-season, dealing Mark DeRosa to the Indians for three pitching prospects. Combined, the three prospects play something like eight less positions than DeRosa. I know nothing about these pitching prospects, but you have to think the goal of the trade is to clear some room to spend [...]

I found this song via Blogabull from Heavy.com. Enjoy. More funny videos like the “Derrick Rose Needs Some Help” at Heavy.com Oh and if you can’t hear the lyrics too well, here’s a written copy. Rose definitely needs some help; this song could not be more correct.

Remember when Illinois lost a record 19 games last season? I don’t. Especially after the past 8 days. Even though the team was 10-1 I was skeptical. They hadn’t beaten anyone I had heard of, and the one chance they had to play someone decent (Clemson), they lost. It looked like Illinois was going to [...]

Illini get a big win against Purdue on the road. They’re on the map. The Hawks streak finally ends against the Wings, but hopefully will just be a minor bump in the road. I guess they didn’t have a lot of ‘kills’ tonight. Apparently Drew Gooden is going to start blogging. Welcome to the blogosphere [...]

The Red Wings and Blackhawks are the focus of the hockey world this week leading up to their game on New Year’s Day. The Winter Classic is getting all the attention, and rightfully so, but the original six rivals will square off in Detroit tonight in a game of similar importance to the Central Division [...]

Unimaginitive, boring, unprepared, unable to make adjustments, weird-looking. All words used to describe Bob Babich, our defensive coordinator. Ron Rivera, Babich’s predecessor, was a great defensive coordinator. He bought into Lovie’s Cover 2 but was able to make adjustments that were tailored specifically to the personnel he was working with. In all fairness to Babich, [...]

Northwestern falls in OT to Mizzou in the Alamo Bowl. That was a lot closer than Illinois came. Bulls win; pigs fly. Rose goes for 21 points and 13 assists as Chicago wins in New Jersey for the first time since 2001. Mangini, Marinelli, and Crennel fired. Must have been Mangini’s idea to dump Pennington [...]

According to the Chicago Tribune, Kyle Orton will be the starting quarterback for the Chicago Bears next year: After Sunday’s season-ending 31-24 loss to the Texans, offensive coordinator Ron Turner said Orton will head into training camp next July as the unchallenged starting quarterback for the first time in his career.“No question about it,” Turner [...]

With the Bears season over, the only thing left for us Chicago sports fans to watch until March is the Chicago Bulls (unless you can figure out what the hell that game is with ice and a little puck no one can see). Well I have bad bad news for you guys. The Bulls season [...]

As the pain from yesterday’s loss and no postseason football in Chicago begins to subside this morning, it’s hard to know what to make of this season. Right now all that seems to be going through Chicagoans’ minds is how the Bears blew the season, me included. Somehow we have to take a step back [...]

Bears lose in a nailbiter. Just kidding everyone, it wasn’t a nailbiter. Bears just flat out lost, and it sucks. Akinori Otsuka a Cub? If he has recovered from that surgery it would be perfect. Sorry if I’m not totally sold on Bob Howry 2.0 (Kevin Gregg) Ben Gordon passes Scottie Pippen on the all-time [...]

F$%& the Bears. F$#% Matt Forte. F%#$ Kyle Orton. F#$% Lovie Smith. F@$# Ron Turner. F#*$ Bob Babich. F@#$ the Texans. F#$% Daniel Manning. F#%$ Greg Olsen. F@#$ the Vikings. F@#$ the Packers. F#%$ the Panthers. F#%$ the Giants. F@$# the Cowboys. F#%$ the Bucs. F#%$ Rod Blagojevich. F#%$ the economy. F%$# terrorists. F#%$ the [...]

Another great classic Bulls clip. This is from Christmas in 1992, Bulls vs. Knicks. Jordan goes off for 42 points in the Bulls win. A lot of great 90s graphics and my favorite part is Jordan’s quote about 2/3 through the clip about how certain young Knicks should stop being so cocky. Enjoy:

Luol Deng is not, and never was, that great. Here is a great analysis by the numbers of why it was a mistake to sign him to a huge deal. How about the best sports injuries of 2008? You think Rose’s apple-slicing incident will be in there? I’m guessing yes. The last Thursday Dick Joke [...]

Yesterday Zoner brought us the video of Charles Smith getting his shit stuffed over and over again from about 15 years ago. That made me think of some of my favorite moments in Bulls history and I remembered this great moment. After losing to the Pistons in the playoffs in the 3 years prior to [...]