The Big Ten Tournament starts at 11am today.  There are seven or eight teams that have a legitimate chance to win this thing, and any of today’s games could feature an upset. All times Central:
11:00 am (8) Minnesota vs. (9) Northwestern
The teams split games during the regular season, with each winning at home.  The most [...]

The Bulls made a fourth quarter run to only lose by 28 to the Magic.  I really hope they make the playoffs so we can see more of this.  [ESPN]
Blackhawks beat the Hurricanes in a shootout at the United Center last night.  [Yahoo Sports]
Conference USA plays some of the worst basketball in the country.  Ever.  [...]

Remember back in November, when a certain blue-haired Harry Lughes showed up seemingly from out of nowhere and helped lead the Bulls to some much-needed victories?  Well he left abruptly, followed shortly thereafter by Larry Hughes return and subsequent benching.  As most Bulls fans know, Hughes was traded a few weeks ago to the Knicks.  [...]

So the World Baseball Classic is going on and we have paid little-to-no attention to it here.  However, the first round was supposed to be virtually uninteresting right?  I mean the major contenders were expected to advance because they definitely wouldn’t lose twice.
Some of the teams I considered major contenders-Japan, Cuba, Venezuela, the United States-advanced, [...]

It is a few weeks into Spring Training and the position battles on the Cubs are moving along.  I covered the hitters yesterday, and today we will look at the pitchers.  There are some health issues of concern, as well as some battles for spots in the middle of the bullpen.  Here’s your update:
Starters:
Carlos Zambrano: [...]

I meant to post this last week when the Bulls started wearing it, but it got shuffled to the bottom of all the Red and Norm tributes.  The Bulls will be wearing these patches on their jerseys for the rest of the season to honor the two Bulls greats.  Here is what they look like:

It’s [...]

Fukudome hasn’t been playing with the Cubs this spring, since he has been trying to help Japan win some games in the World Baseball Classic.  He has done ok, going 2-7 so far with the Japanese team.  As usual, he is walking a lot as well, drawing 4 bases on balls in only 11 plate [...]

Harden looks good in his first spring action.  The Cubs are being very careful with him, but  it’s nice to see him actually throwing off a mound. [Tribune]
DePaul wins their first Big East game in the conference tournament.  Only like 9 more wins to get into the big dance. [Deadspin]
Yeah the Bulls lost in a [...]

The weekend for the Chicago Blackhawks was so bad, I had to take a day to let it soak in before posting about it.  The Hawks were outscored by a total of 10-4 in losses to the Bruins and the Avalanche.
With the two losses, the Hawks have now lost six of eight games and are [...]

Florida Panthers announcer Randy Moller has taken America by storm with his pop culture inspired goal calls.  The Dan LeBatard show has these gems on a lot and seems to be compiling them every once in a while on YouTube.  The latest batch is out and here it is:

Well that was excellent again.  Props for [...]

There are times during the year that are just plain awesome.  I’m not sure that any of them are quite as good as the middle of March through the start of April.  This week we have conference tournaments, bubble talk, and Selection Sunday at the tail end of the weekend.  Then we get a few [...]

I know the Bulls story of the day has nothing to do with Tyrus Thomas.  The Bulls lost a double overtime thriller last night to Miami, but I don’t feel like talking about that.  While I was feeling miserable about the game last night, I decided to look at the box score and I noticed [...]

We are about 2 weeks into Spring Training, and there are some interesting position battles as discussed earlier.  Also everyone is keeping their eye on guys like Harden and Bradley.  How is everyone doing, you ask?  Well here is a brief run-down of the hitters as of last night (pitchers to be discussed in Part II tomorrow):
Catchers:
Geovany Soto: [...]

Carlos Zambrano has been the most dominant pitcher for the Cubs over the last 6 years or so.  He has consistently won double digit games, struck out a ton of hitters, and had a sub-3.50 ERA.  In fact, he will probably be the opening day starter for the Cubs again this year (unless Dempster gets [...]

John Stewart was at it again, hilariously ripping on Chicago’s sports teams.  After saying that they suck, he says they should sign Obama as a new SF.  Start watching around the 1:45 mark.
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The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c
Obama’s First 100 Days – Privileged [...]