This piece was supposed to be about the ridiculous show following Serena Williams’ opening match of her last tournament. Serena…
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Ping pong. Rowing. Surviving somehow in the ghetto. After a life in Chicago, most of it on the Southside, I…
What if the popular wisdom is wrong? As usual. For many decades, the consensus was that if inflation gets too…
Should I sell a CNC lathe to some company in Iran, not knowing if they are making missile parts which…
The war in Ukraine is a genocide. The economy is a perplexing complex of boom and missteps. Politics has degenerated…
I like football, but I am not a football nut. I don’t even own a Walter Payton or Mike Ditka…
What makes a great team out of a group of good players? I’ve considered that question since I first started…
It’s the feeling that enables me to fall asleep. The kinesthetic memory of the dimpled leather, the seams spaced across…
I have always been baffled why anyone becomes a referee or an umpire. Is it a passion for power or…
I vowed not to write so often about baseball and the Cubs, but this is about Anthony Rizzo, the soul…