At the beginning of the year, I was supremely confident in the advancement of the Bulls and even predicted that they would make it to the NBA Finals. Still, after the way that they faltered against the Nets on the last day of the regular season, I was questioning aloud the team’s intestinal fortitude, [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Bulls Bust Out the Brooms and Land-o-Links for 4/30/2007
Posted: April 30, 2007 in Big Ten, Chicago Bulls, College Basketball, Illinois Fighting Illini, Land-o-Links, Major League Baseball, NBA Basketball, NFL Football, Random Thoughts, Sports, TelevisionA Running of the Bulls in ’07 or Will ’08 Be Great?
Posted: April 22, 2007 in Chicago Bulls, NBA Basketball, SportsBy virtue of an ugly loss at New Jersey last Wednesday night, the Bulls managed to go from a virtual lock to getting to the NBA Eastern Conference Finals as a #2 seed down to underdogs in the first round as the #5 seed against the Miami Heat. Even though the Bulls were able to [...]
The big news in Chicago this past weekend was that our fair city bested Los Angeles to represent the United States in bidding for the 2016 Summer Olympics with Tokyo and Rio De Jianero probably being the main opponents. Winning the Olympics, which won’t be decided until 2009, certainly won’t be a slam dunk, particularly with [...]
Land-o-Links – 4/4/2007
Posted: April 4, 2007 in Big Ten, Business, Chicago Cubs, College Basketball, College Football, Illinois Fighting Illini, Law, Major League Baseball, SportsAs we close out the college basketball season (the Final Four was pretty anticlimatic and Lord help me if Joakim Noah ends up in a Bulls uniform), say hello to Major League Baseball (I’m getting a sickening feeling that this is the year that the arm of Jose Contreras falls off), and head out to [...]