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An Inescapable Marketing Machine
He was everywhere – even when he wasn’t.
In three videos posted to YouTube in the last week.
(We now know that, no, he really wasn’t that nice; he made bank on an image he later self-pityingly loathed.)
1. Michael Jordan In Local Chicago Commercials, ’80s – ’90s.
Posted on May 12, 2020
By AP
“Professional and college sports have been shutdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic. NCAA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brian Hainline joins the Ground Game podcast to talk about when college teams can start gathering, practicing and competing again, as well as what might happen if a student-athlete tests positive for the virus.”
Posted on May 11, 2020
By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
The Jordan fools. Plus: Kristin Cavallari Finally Meets Jay Cutler (Or Jay Cutler’s Last Dance); Ryan Pace Claims He Still Believes In Mitch Trubisky Even After Declining His 5th-Year Option And Signing Nick Foles, Which Is A Good Way To Show How Much Confidence He Has In The Guy He (Badly) Maneuvered For So He Could Pick Him To Second Overall In The NFL Draft; The KBO On ESPN!; and The Ex-Cub Factor.
Posted on May 8, 2020
By Steve Rhodes
One in an occasional series following the trials and triumphs of former Cubs.
1. Manny Ramirez.
Manny never played for the Cubs, of course, but he did put in some time as an organizational hitting instructor.
Now he’s pursuing a comeback with the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan.
Posted on May 7, 2020
By Jim Coffman
Of course my memories of the loss are the most vivid. The Bears rolled through the playoffs in the winter of 1985-86 and then really unleashed their dominance in Super Bowl XX. But my clearest recollections of that amazing campaign are of that crushing Monday Night loss in Miami at the start of the regular season’s final month.
Except it turns out my memories of that amazing team’s single setback actually weren’t very accurate (the Bears finished with a combined 18-1 record after winning their first 12 before taking on the Dolphins). I thought I remembered details of that game but then I went back and read a delightfully detailed oral history and realized that sometimes even my favorite recollections are warped by time.
And I am not alone . . . not by a long stretch. And of course there are connections between that game and season and the documentary mega-series The Last Dance that continues to mesmerize Chicago with the seventh and eighth episodes (out of a total of 10) set to air on Sunday.
Posted on May 6, 2020
By Reigning Champs Experience
Women’s flag football is on its way to becoming an official National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) varsity sport by 2021, thanks to a two-year partnership between the NAIA, the National Football League (NFL) and Reigning Champs Experiences (RCX).
With support from NFL FLAG and RCX, NAIA will work to develop league infrastructure and operations for the first women’s flag football competition governed by a collegiate athletics association.
Posted on May 5, 2020
By Thomas Chambers
I have a very good longtime friend who lives, if I did the right vector Victor, 182 miles straight north of my house.
She’s in the middle of town really, but has such a nice yard that a deer or two will visit once in awhile. Not to mention rabbits. But her two cats watch over.
A friend for years before that, we ended up both being big fans of horse racing. I’m not sure how that happened, or the genesis of it, and I might be responsible for it. But where I’m a crusty bread heel, she loves the knockabouts and the class both, finds and sticks to a favorite horse, and then shows me how So And So the colt seems to be running well. “What about this one? He looks good.” She’s got instinct. Reads the Past Performances.
That’s handicapping. It is.
Posted on May 3, 2020
By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
We like the Nick Foles deal just fine, despite the brush fire that broke out this week. Here’s why. Plus: Dennis Rodman’s Last Dance; Relive Sammy Sosa Next; Danny Wirtz and Michael Reinsdorf Assert Themselves; and Good Riddance, Kentucky Derby.
Posted on May 1, 2020
By Thomas Chambers
When this is over, one of the good memories will be how Oaklawn Park, Hot Springs, Arkansas, rolled with the punches and singularly crafted American Thoroughbred horse racing on a festival level when horseplayers and even other gamblers appreciated it most.
Sure, cookies crumbled a certain way, including the Kentucky Derby being knocked flat on its ass, but Oaklawn found a way to extend its meet with, by the way, real horse racing. Right here and now, lets celebrate Oaklawn.
Posted on May 1, 2020
By Thomas Chambers
Like the monster’s claw arising from the hardpan, Churchill Downs Inc. is now awake, fully poised to wreak its consistent, insidious greed upon Thoroughbred horse racing and sports in general.
Starting this Saturday.
Posted on May 1, 2020
