The Fighting Illini and Northwestern Wildcats have scheduled a football game to be played at Wrigley Field this year on November 20 at 11am.  How will it look you ask?  Well MPS has created a photoshop of the most likely scenario. It seems like a very cool idea.  The Winter Classic was amazing and although [...]

As a member of Generation “I Don’t Have Time to Follow Real News”, its hard to find time in my day between work, following sports, and doing nothing to actually figure out what’s really going on in the world. That’s where Comedy Central’s Daily Show and Colbert Report come in. I love Colbert’s schtick, and [...]

I saw this on Chicagoist and had to share it with everyone.  I know its not sports-related, but it is too funny not to post.  Apparently this is the sign out front of  Marie’s Golden Cue on Montrose in Albany Park.  I wonder if it’s helped business or not: Sounds like my kind of place.

The Cubs played the Dodgers on Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN the other night.  As ESPN always does on those national telecasts, it broadcast many live views of Chicago landmarks.  Notice anything wrong with this one? I’ll give you a hint, take a look at the building on the left.  It’s the Sun-Times building, right?  [...]

I have been a huge Curtis Granderson fan since his days playing baseball at University of Illinois at Chicago (of which I am an alum).  I didn’t know him personally, but he was always smiling and friendly with everyone around campus and just generally had a great reputation.  When he came up with the Tigers, [...]

So I finally checked out ESPN’s new Chicago centered site (site? blog? page?  whatever it’s called) expecting to be shocked, appalled and generally saddened about life the way I am with anything new ESPN does outside of their Sportscenter commercials.  Really though, I’m not sure how much this affects us Chicago folk and if anything, [...]

Chicago’s Olympic bid  has gone from sure thing to no chance to possibility and back again.  Would it be good for the city?  That’s a topic for another day.  In the meantime, here is a video promo the Chicago Olympic Committee prepared for the IOC Evaluation Commission, which is in town this week to judge [...]

As a Chicagoan, I take pride in a lot of things in our city: architecture, sports teams, work ethic, attitude of the people, culture, and a number of other things.  One thing I take special pride in is our food.  Whether it is the amazing deep dish pizza or the delicious Italian beef, the food [...]