A prominent, Olympic-themed website claims President Obama WILL appear in Copenhagen next Friday, when the 2016 Summer Olympics host city will be named. Around-the-rings-dot-com cites an unnamed source close to the International Olympic Committee who says Obama will travel to Denmark for next week’s...

    WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior adviser to the president is getting advice on Chicago’s 2016 Olympics bid from a high-profile source. An administration official says Valerie Jarrett met with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in New York Tuesday. Blair helped secure the 2012 Olympics for...

If only Michael Jordan’s Hall of Fame exhibit lived up to his reputation as a basketball player.  The NY Times Richard Sandomir offered a scathing take recently.  Sandomir says it’s “…a soulless exercise in corporate worship that was designed, installed, written, curated and...

You know schmoozing. To converse casually, especially in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection, according to dictionary.com. The advantage to gain in this case is the key to host the 2016 Summer Games, and the potential to provide future revenue $treams as an “Olympic City.” Since...

Milton Bradley still can’t stop himself from jawing back at “idiot” Cubs fans. Bradley’s stats (.259, 11, 35 …through 8/26) still aren’t living up to his three-year, 30-million-dollar contract. And since he joined the team while popular Mark DeRosa was exiting Bradley’s...

Israel Idonije nearly missed the Bears’ Space Mountain Super Bowl ride. He was a restricted free agent in 2006, and Dick Jauron’s Buffalo Bills signed Idonije to an offer sheet. The Bears matched it, keeping a player valued for his versatility. “There’s no question in what I have here and what...

Shouldn’t the day after the Major League All Star Game feature some other sort of monumental sporting event? It’s most often one of the deadest days in sports. What do you think?

I still don’t think home field advantage in the World Series should be decided by the winner of the All Star Game. And the reason goes deeper than a bad Bud Selig joke. The Commissioner says his gimmick is necessary to make the game intense enough to live up to it’s billing. He’d...

You’ve heard about the NFL being the No Fun League, with it’s multitude of rules and infractions, protecting some positions more than others and banning most kinds of endzone celebrations. The new four team UFL is interested in having more fun. According to the AP, the UFL will give both...

Rookie of the Year runner up Kris Versteeg will not leap through a loophole and leave the Blackhawks. Versteeg and the Hawks have come to terms on a three year contract, worth a reported 9-million-dollars plus. The deal keeps Versteeg off the open market. “Kris’ tremendous rookie season...

Arland Bruce’s Michael Jackson tribute didn’t come off exactly like he may have thought. Bruce is a wide receiver for Toronto in the Canadian Football League, and after catching a touchdown pass last night proceeded to, no, not moonwalk or shake a gloved hand, but take off his helmet, jersey...

Listener Jamie W. offers; The Cubs have scuffled practically all year. Just when you think they’re horrible, they pull off back-to-back comeback wins against the White Sox and Indians in dramatic fashion. It was the start of a four-game winning streak, and it looked like the Cubs were starting to turn...

The main sticking point in the Tribune-Rickett’s negotiations is believed to be the value of Cubs broadcast rights. But a sagging economy has also made talks tough. In January the third finalist, Chicago real estate executive Hersch Klaff told Newsradio 780, “It ain’t over ’til...

I heard Bo Jackson on the WBBM Noon Business Hour Tuesday. (Listen Here) Impressive. He’s a Director at a local bank and still lives in the Chicagoland area. I’ve always found Jackson and his multi-sport achievements fascinating. He’s in the College Football Hall of Fame, and remains...

This is one of the many interesting press releases to arrive in my inbox;     SAVING LIVES THROUGH LAWN MOWER RACING: ZION NOSTALGIA DAYS HOSTS DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER AT FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND MOW DOWN Glenview, IL – (June 8, 2009) –Lawn mower racers from across the country will converge on...

  Sifting through statistics; 25 of Randy Johnson’s 300 career wins have come against the Cubs and White Sox. - 13-0 vs Cubs - 12-4 vs Sox - In Chicago, Johnson’s won four game’s apiece at old Comiskey Park, US Cellular Field and Wrigley Field. Pitching for his sixth franchise in...

It’s worth getting to know the story of Clay Zavada, a downstate Illinois native who nearly stopped pitching after his father died suddenly a few years ago.  Now Zavada is pitching in the “Big’s” and drawing comparisons to Rollie Fingers …for his model of mustache.  Another...

The cost of the London Olympics in 2012 goes up again. The British Government is sinking another 491-million-dollars of public money into it’s Athlete’s Village …claiming private investor bids all came in too low. Just four months ago Britain first dipped in to it’s contingency...

One time Bulls first-round draft pick Corie Blount gets sentenced to one-year in jail. The judge tells Blount, in court, he had so much marijuana that, “Cheech and Chong would have had a hard time smoking that much.”  29 pounds.   Here’s the AP story;    HAMILTON, Ohio (AP)...

  Doug Glanville pens another insightful editorial.  The two time Cubs outfielder and former Major League veteran uses the “Matrix” as an analogy to call out Manny Ramirez and the PED cheats.