There have been some recent improvements to the roster and yes, there’s still an opportunity for some silverware.

Opening Day 2013 marks our one-year anniversary, and in advance of that occasion, we thought it fitting to step back and take a look at our home runs.

Meghan hunts down Black(hawk) Friday shoppers on Michigan Ave., making sure they remember what’s important this time of year: 1. Hockey, 2. Family, 3. Hockey. #EndTheLockout

With turkey and cranberries and pie right around the corner, Paul Shirley takes a moment to thank his dad for helping him fulfill a childhood dream.

Face it, Bears fans, you can’t be objective. But Football Outsiders can help. Each week, FO’s Robert Weintraub offers a look at the Bears game, with help of FO’s advanced metrics.

Last season’s Cubs team was painful to watch, and tickets were almost impossible to unload. So, when our EIC received a mere 60-cent reduction on his 2013 tickets, a doubt developed.

“Never, ever can LeBron James be the best of all time,” says Mariotti. “I have come today to correct this absurd discrepancy, this farcical role reversal.”

Both the president and the president of baseball operations have been weighed down by the failures of previous administrations. But this is about the future, where each man will be judged on wins, losses, and how he played the game.

Like all Chicago football fans, Sara Paretsky was in love with the 1985 Bears, and when, the following season, she spotted a “Fly with the Bears” promotion, she couldn’t pass it up.

President Obama is a ferocious competitor, and while reading about him this week our EIC started thinking about his own competitive juices, and how they fit today in a female-heavy house.

Mariotti says his answer remains the same as it has for three decades: ‘Because I still love sports, and because I still love to write. Sports + writing = sportswriter. And the fond memories still dance like nude women at Burning Man…’

What does a pro athlete do when the cheering (or booing) stops? Paul Shirley, a former member of the Chicago Bulls, answers that question in his fifth essay in a monthly series for ChicagoSide.

The author of “Horseplayers: Life at the Track,” offers an honest and personal essay about Dave The Human Computer, a man wedded to the betting life…and little else.

ChicagoSide Editor-in-Chief, Jonathan Eig, kicks off our first week of daily stories with some history, explanation and breaking news (hint: print.) For those of you who don’t know us yet, this is the place to start. For those of you that know us already, you’ll enjoy some fresh anecdotes from Eig.