5+ hour, 2+ min ago  (743+ words) FOR THE LAST THREE SEASONS, I've ragged on Chicago Bulls forward Patrick Williams on a regular basis. And each and every rag is entirely justifiable. I mean, dig how he ranks in the Big Three stat columns: Approximate NBA rank:…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (497+ words) WELCOME TO THE DOG DAYS of April. The Bulls and Blackhawks are staggering their respective ways to the end of another garbage season. The Bears are quietly prepping for the NFL Draft. The Sky are doing some semblance of roster…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (553+ words) FIRST OF ALL, let's get something straight. In the United States of America, yes "freedom of speech" means you can say whatever you want " anything you want, that is, without any blowback from the government. Your employer, however, can blowback…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (786+ words) BECAUSE WE'RE SPORTS FANS, we stick with our teams even when they're the definition of meh. My Chicago sports-viewing life has been more meh than not, yet here I am, taking time out of my busy mornings week after week…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (930+ words) LEON DURHAM was a solid Major League Baseball player. The first baseman/outfielder they (unimaginatively) called "Bull" finished his ten-year career racking up a .277 average, 106 stolen bases, and a pair of All-Star nods. The bulk of his professional life was…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (872+ words) THE CITY OF CHICAGO HAS HAD it's fair share of infamous teams. The Bartman Cubs. The Rodman Bulls. The Double Doink Bears. But no team was more infamous than the 1919 Chicago White Sox. As detailed in Eliot Asinof's brilliant book…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (1050+ words) DID YOU KNOW that since 1970, the Chicago Bears have had 6,216 different starting quarterbacks, give or take? And did you know that during that same stretch, the Green Bay Packers have had four starting quarterbacks, give or take? The Bears" record…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (557+ words) BILL SIMMONS probably never counted how many articles he published. Same with Rick Telander. Or Bob Ryan. Or Hunter S. Thompson. Or Grantland Rice. But This Guy? This Guy counts his butt off. When I launched this whole Chicago Sports Stuff…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (547+ words) LAST SPRING, I was freelancing for a couple of major sports outlets, both of whom asked me to write a mock NFL first round draft. Each of the articles got a goodly number of clicks. So they asked for more....

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (175+ words) THE MILESTONES just keep on a'comin'. Wednesday marks Chicago Sports Stuff's 600th column, and we're celebrating by letting you write it. Wait, that makes me sound super-lazy (which, admittedly I kind of am), so let's rephrase that: Wednesday marks Chicago Sports…...