Bears GM mixes up grocery list with coaching candidates, ends up interviewing head of...
“We just figured he was preparing lunch,” said Ted Phillips after seeing Emery escort a head of lettuce into Halas Hall. “But when I found out he was actually giving an interview, naturally I became a bit concerned."
Bettman slips yearly lockout clause into new CBA
"Taking three months out of every season every year is an NHL tradition," said Bettman. "People have come to expect a certain level of dysfunction that is synonymous with my tenure."
‘Sammy Sosa is looking good,’ says not-Sammy-Sosa’s-publicist via Pinterest
Sosa made sure to bring all of his personality to his Pinterest by in no way letting his publicist position him in front of a camera while telling the former slugger, "Don't worry Sammy, you look great, America's gonna fall in love with you all over again."
After watching Rookie of the Year, Epstein changes scouting focus to 12-year-olds with arm...
"Theo [Epstein] was touched the first time we showed him the greatest baseball movie ever, Rookie of the Year," said Cubs executive Crane Kenney. "Now we are focused entirely on 12-year-olds with tendons healing 'a little too tight,' giving them the ability to throw 103 mph."
NHL to play during halftime of NBA games
“Most owners like the deal because stadiums will already be full. Players like it because they get paid to do one-third of the work,” said mediator Ron Carter. “And Commissioner Bettman is ecstatic because it abolishes all Canadian teams except for one.”
In rare moment of candor, Bettman and Fehr admit they ‘just ran out of...
"The reality of it is, we just ran out of things to talk about," said Bettman. "Don and I both love cats, and although this thing could have been settled in November, I had a hunch he might be getting a new Persian long hair for Christmas and, frankly, I wanted to hear about it."
Cubs fan awakes from 2003 coma; excited about rotation featuring D-Train, Kid K and...
Shortly after the Cubs' 2003 collapse, Lakeview native and lifelong Cubs fan Brian Voils drank himself into a deep coma. For nine years he slumbered, until he woke up yesterday to see an amazing headline: Cubs sign Dontrelle Willis.
