The Cubs are desperate this year.  At this point in the season we have to face facts.  As I was discussing with the Zoner from Zoner Sports yesterday, we can’t treat this Cubs team like the team that came out of spring training looking like it would win 100 games.  Even though the payroll says [...]

Personally I have no beef with the Broncos, and the only connection we as Bears fans have with them is the recent trade of Orton and a slew of draft picks for Cutler.  I love Cutler so far, but I am the first to admit that his inability to keep his mouth shut has fanned [...]

Scottie Pippen HANDLES Patrick Ewing.  Boom! [Pippen Ain't Easy] LeBron was in Chicago promoting his new shoes, and the Chicago-styled version looks really cool.  Not like cool in the way I would ever wear them, but cool to look at from a distance. [Docksquad] Lou has a theory about Marmol’s wildness: He’s overthrowing.  I have [...]

So I went to Wrigley Field to catch a nice baseball game between my favorite team the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies.  It was a beautiful night, and no matter what happened I stood to have a good time.  The sun was shining, I got a delicious foot-long hot dog, had a few beers, [...]

A week and a half ago, Chicagoans were bitching about how unseasonably cool, dry and boring the summer had been. We longed to have fun summers like the people on the East, West and Gulf Coasts were having. Kenny Williams, a native Californian had an especially troublesome time with the mild weather. Not only did [...]

Well that didn’t take long.  After railing against print media and how its dying, Mariotti left the Sun-Times to take his lucrative gig at AOL Fanhouse and focus more on his awful, awful appearances on ESPN’s Around the Horn.  Apparently he thinks that he can save print media from extinction, however, since he is now [...]

The Bulls schedule for the 2009-2010 campaign was released last week, and lets just say things don’t look too pretty.  The Bulls open at home against the Spurs on October 29th, followed by a game the next night in Boston against the Celtics.  The Bulls have the most back-to-back games in the entire NBA at [...]

READ THIS! If you only read one thing on the interwebs today, make it this article.  It is an amazing statistical analysis of the changes in frequency of shot types over the course of a normal NBA game. Surprising and interesting.  [Hardwood Paroxysm] It looks like there’s more than meets the eye with Hawks young [...]

As some of you noticed (or not), I have been absent from NQTC since last Sunday.  As a result, South Side Sheik and StevieY19 managed to maintain the site using dignity, research, and well-thought out arguments and analysis about serious topics in sports.  Booorrrring.  So I’ve returned to bring the integrity of the site back [...]

At the beginning of the year, the consensus was that there were a handful of players in the AL that would compete for the Rookie of the Year award. David Price (TAM) had shown his mettle in the playoffs in 2008 and retained his rookie status for 2009. Matt Wieters (BAL), Travis Snider (TOR) and [...]

For the next few weeks leading up to the college football season, we’ll be previewing every Big Ten team, starting with my prediction to finish last, to my predicted champ.  This way if I don’t get to Ohio State before the season starts, you’ll have a good grasp on all the teams whose analysis isn’t [...]

On Monday, Randy Wells pitched another solid game for the Cubs in their 4-2 win over the Reds which propelled them into first place in the AL Central. Wells pitched 7.1 innings, allowing one earned run while striking out five. More importantly for Wells and his candidacy for NL Rookie of the Year, Kevin Gregg [...]

For the next few weeks leading up to the college football season, we’ll be previewing every Big Ten team, starting with my prediction to finish last, to my predicted champ.  This way if I don’t get to Ohio State before the season starts, you’ll have a good grasp on all the teams whose analysis isn’t [...]

Near the beginning of the season, Black Jack McDowell, former ace for the White Sox in the early 90′s, wrote an article on what it takes to be a championship team for some website called “Chicago Now.” http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/black-jack-white-sox/2009/05/white-sox-vs-royals-on-paper.html In short, Black Jack believes for a team to be considered a legitimate championship contender, a team [...]

Not much has changed since the last update on the mediocre performances coming from the nation’s heartland this summer. No team has truly broken away in either division. And as it stands, the two divisions should only expect to send one representative each to the postseason. The AL Central is still a 3-team race between [...]