by DAN McGRATH | Feb 17, 2012
Rick Majerus’s unconventional lifestyle might have been the best thing to happen to Notre Dame basketball since Austin Carr, the All-World shooting star. Or maybe it was the ties that bound Matt Doherty to the University of North Carolina. Irish fans aren’t...
by MATT CONNOLLY | Feb 13, 2012
As Willie Conner stood alongside his fellow Crane High School seniors last week, clutching a rose and looking down at the hardwood floor, his final home game in a Cougars uniform was not the only thing on his mind. “We’re...
by DAN McGRATH | Feb 10, 2012
Porter Moser lingered over Ronald Nored’s line as he studied the box score from last month’s Butler-Loyola game. The Ramblers coach sounded as if he wanted to kidnap Butler’s versatile, tough-minded point guard, or maybe adopt him, as he contemplated...
by DAN McGRATH | Feb 5, 2012
Remove the Heisman Trophy from the discussion and I don’t know if Phil Emery knows Robert Griffin III from Robert Goulet. I would assume he does; Emery has spent more than a decade traversing the country in search of N.F.L.-caliber...
by DAN McGRATH | Jan 27, 2012
Sports talk radio was a phenomenon fairly new to Chicago the first time I heard it here. I was visiting from California, taking my daughter to college on a trip that included a two-hour drive from Chicago. I came upon...
by DAN McGRATH | Jan 22, 2012
If Andrew Shaw were a baseball player, he would be David Eckstein, the pint-size shortstop who won World Series rings with the Anaheim Angels and the St. Louis Cardinals. If he played basketball, he would probably be the 5-foot-4 former...
by DAN McGRATH | Jan 15, 2012
It’s clear the Bulls have re-established themselves as a team worthy of Chicago’s attention, because the city’s ever-twitchy fans are worried about them. Derrick Rose is playing too many minutes and is certain to wear down with so many games...
by DAN McGRATH | Jan 3, 2012
On Monday, while offering his post mortem on the Bears’ break-even season, coach Lovie Smith tried to spin a desultory 1-5 finish forward. He claimed the Bears were a solid football team that had been a virtual lock for a...
by DAN McGRATH | Jan 2, 2012
Happy New Year? For sure. Has to be. And it’s not as if 2012, from a sports perspective, has a tough act to follow. The best thing about 2011 is that it’s over. Mark Buehrle’s departure for Miami is one...
by DAN McGRATH | Dec 26, 2011
The Bulls rarely beat the Lakers in Los Angeles—they hadn’t, in fact, done so in Derrick Rose’s three years with the team. Forgive Bears fans, then, if they started to believe anything was possible on Christmas after Rose and the...
