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Grasping At Air: Assessing The Cubs’ Rebuilding 26 Aug 2013 | 04:25 pm
Most of the time in sports, a team’s success or failure is easy to judge. Win most of your games, make the playoffs, at least flirt with a championship or wildly exceed expectations, and you’ve had a...
Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff And Enjoy The Blackhawks 23 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
This summer should be nothing but giddiness for Blackhawks fans. The Hawks are reigning Stanley Cup champions, and pretty much every player needed to launch a repeat is back. The new and unimproved C...
A-Rod, Braun Form A New Fab Four 23 Aug 2013 | 04:51 pm
As we watch the slow-motion drama of Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun, doing their best to keep themselves in the news, we couldn’t help but laugh when our friends sent along this bit of genius: Photo i...
The Love Seat with Meghan Kluth, Episode 2: Brodie Smith, Windy City Wildfire 21 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Meghan’s back on the seat, this time with Brodie Smith, frisbee… ahem… “Ultimate Disc” god. If you haven’t already, be sure to watch Episode #1: Chris Conte. The Love Seat is a ChicagoSide creation, ...
How Do We Love the White Sox? Let Us Count the Ways 20 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Here at ChicagoSide yesterday, we thanked Hector Santiago for his graceful sweeping tag of Josh Willingham, which reminded us that White Sox baseball can still be fun, even in a lost and dreary season...
Hector Santiago Reminds Sox Fans That Baseball Can Still Be Fun 19 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm
You and I both know this White Sox season has been bad. And that’s not just because of the team’s woeful record: This season has been terminally boring. The Sox are last in the American League in runs...
Best Of Luck, Ryno. You’ll Need It 17 Aug 2013 | 12:56 am
Ryne Sandberg is the new manager of the Philadelphia Phillies. Congrats to Ryno, who’s getting the chance to manage in the bigs, something he wanted to do in Chicago with the Cubs. But if he had wait...
Throwing In A Throwback League: My Summer In The MINK 16 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Omaha, Neb., June 11th, 2012 It was my first day with my summer team, the Omaha Diamond Spirit, and I already knew I was in a different universe – one that revolved around a baseball. My teammates di...
Why Aren’t There More Black Sportswriters? 15 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
Late last year, AOL Fanhouse columnist David Whitley wrote a column chiding San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for sporting tattoos, starting off by saying: Approximately 98.7 percent o...
The Secret To Chicago Flag Football: ‘Girl Play’ 13 Aug 2013 | 10:01 am
This was clearly my last season playing Chicago adult co-ed flag football. Before we reached halftime in Game One of the 2013 spring season, I’d already sprained a toe and tweaked an ankle. By midsea...
