edited by: Douglas Welch,
Illinois Editor
Whether you spell it as "Hanukkah,""Chanukkah," "Chanukah," or another way, you may find yourself playing a game or two of dreidel over the next few days. Listen to this swingin' version of the Dreidel Song to get you into a festive mood. Kenny Ellis belts it out big-band style, along' [...]
Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been sacked five times so far in tonight’s game against Cleveland. The last sack was on 3rd and 19 facing a paltry three-man Brownie rush.
My favorite fan post right now on NFL.COM’s Game Center is from panther440:
Steeler fans, trade those terrible [...]
I've always been a pretty big football fan, but here are two things I do not remember seeing when watching college and pro games 25 years ago an more:
1. The constant attempts to punch or wrench loose the football during tackles. As I recall, fumbles used to be the result [...]
by Illinois Patriot
Now that I have your attention I'm curious about something involving the “Six Degrees Of Separation” idea or concept aka The Kevin Bacon Game. How many of you on the board actually have first degree (or second degree) knowledge of a person whose job was either created or' [...]
Charlie Weis likely put in his last official appearance as Notre Dame’s football coach Friday night. It was the team’s annual football banquet. And, lucky for Irish fans everywhere, there will be no bowl game to suffer through this year.
Notre Dame’s disappointing season arrived at two [...]
Trying to predict what the Senate Democrats are going to throw into their upcoming jobs bill is a fool's game at this point. On the one hand, there are too many valuable uses for the money. On the other hand, there are too many deficit hawks in the upper chamber trying [...]
My guess is that being caught cheating on his wife will be good for TIger Woods' golf game, that all this tomcatting and deception -- boy, that wheedling voice mail to one of his mistresses was painful to listen to, wasn't it? -- has been distracting and even a bit [...]
The banking industry is so, so predictable. Whenever talk turns toward capping predatory interest rates on credit cards or other financial products, like clockwork, the group warns that consumers will have to kiss their access to credit goodbye. Last Tuesday, in a new hour-long documentary titled The Card Game, PBS' Frontline explored the' [...]
by Mark Silva and updated
President Barack Obama, who will explain a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan tonight in a nationally televised speech delivered from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, is deploying an additional 30,000 or more U.S. troops to the eight-year-old war, a spokesman says, [...]
From Proft for Governor. (Nice hair.) It starts out this way: One of the value propositions of our campaign is to peel back the curtain and show folks who know they have been gamed by a system they finance just how the scams work—and who [...]
Unless Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick gets bizarre marching orders from above, today’s 45-38 loss to Stanford will serve as Charlie Weiss’ swan song. In a game full of spectacular offensive drives, Notre Dame’s defense collapsed time and time again to finally surrender the lead to Stanford’s resilient Hiesman-hopeful, [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, "very close'' to a decision about deploying troops in Afghanistan - a strategy that must provide for an "endgame'' as well as a way forward - maintains that he is "absolutely confident'' about getting a health-care bill, calls the planned trial of 9/11 plotters" [...]
Clinging to a six-point lead with a little more than two minutes to go and facing a 4th and 2 in their own territory, the New England Patriots went for it. Gained one yard. Then lost the game when the Indianapolis Colts quickly marched into the end zone. Most observers [...]
Clinging to a six-point lead with a little more than two minutes to go and facing a 4th and 2 in their own territory, the New England Patriots went for it. Gained one yard. Then lost the game when the Indianapolis Colts quickly marched into the end zone. Most observers [...]
Did the University of Michigan football team stink up Camp Randall Stadium today worse than the Chicago Bears stunk up Candlestick Park Thursday night?
Are the Bears (4-5) comparatively more hapless, a bigger disappointment, a poorer emotional investment than the Wolverines (5-6)?
Hard to say. Both clubs are losing games [...]
In Wheeling Township's GOP endorsement session Saturday, no candidate in the governor or lieutenant governor or US Senate was endorsed in Matt Murphy and Mark Kirk's districts, confirming that the top of the ticket races are dead heats, anyone's game. One of the state's largest GOP townships did pick Jim Dodge for Comptroller, [...]
In Sunday's print edition of Change of Subject:
Huberman wants to end the silly high school admissions game in Chicago
Entertaining doubts about my doubts about the `stroller girl' story
The surgical mute button for dogs that won't stop barkingThe spam plague is over, has anyone noticed?
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