A couple of weeks after this year’s Rose Bowl, I wrote a long post lamenting the state of the teams that I root for, stating that “none of my teams are going to be playing any games of real meaning from now until the Illinois football team suits up to play Missouri on Labor Day [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Life is Unexpectedly Awesome
Posted: June 26, 2008 in Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, College Football, Illinois Fighting Illini, Major League Baseball, NBA Basketball, NFL Football, SportsTags: Derrick Rose, Lou Piniella, Ozzie Guillen
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Big Ten Network Beats Comcast with 3 Yards and a Cloud of Dust
Posted: June 16, 2008 in Big Ten, College Basketball, College Football, Illinois Fighting Illini, SportsTags: Big Ten Network, Comcast, NFL Network, YES Network
I’m one of the fortunate souls that has had DirecTV for several years, so I personally was able to avoid the issues stemming from the spat between the Big Ten Network and Comcast (among others) over this past year. While the football offerings on BTN weren’t drastically different than the old ESPN Plus syndicated package, [...]
The Amended and Restated Teams You Can’t Cheer For List
Posted: June 6, 2008 in College Basketball, College Football, Major League Baseball, NBA Basketball, NFL Football, SportsTags: bandwagon fans, Boston Red Sox, d-bags, Los Angeles Lakers
With the prospect of the Bulls becoming a favorite bandwagon team once again after they select the #1 pick in the NBA Draft later this month and coming across this Jim Caple column about the overexpansion of Red Sox Nation, I’ve decided to re-visit this post from a couple of years ago where I listed [...]
The NBA Finals That We All Wanted (Outside of Detroit and San Antonio)
Posted: June 4, 2008 in NBA Basketball, SportsTags: Boston Celtics, Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, Larry Bird, Los Angeles Lakers, Magic Johnson, NBA Finals
The ABC/ESPN hype machine has gotten the Celtics-Lakers NBA Finals matchup that it has been craving since the day it took away the league television contract from NBC six years ago. (The worst thing about the network move was that the glorious John Tesh theme song was mothballed in favor of a rotation of music [...]
There are a whole lot of issues going on in the Chicago sports world that I’ll be getting to soon, including the Bulls apparently settling on Doug Collins Strikes Back as coach (I’ve been jumping the gun on Bulls coaches posts, so I’m holding off until there’s an actual press conference) and the baseball teams [...]
