Teams & Topics: Miscellany
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Pretty Smart (For a Jock): The Burden Of Being An Athlete With A Brain
What does a pro athlete do when the cheering (or booing) stops? Paul Shirley, a former member of the Chicago Bulls, answers this question in his monthly series for ChiSide.
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The Corner Man: Chicago’s Greatest Boxing Trainer, Sam Colonna
Chicago’s pre-eminent boxing trainer, Sam Colonna, reckons he has been in ring corners for “thousands of fights” over the past 27 years—enough to know winning isn’t everything.
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Season’s Greetings From Jay Mariotti
The holiday season now encompasses 10.6 percent of the entire American calendar. That’s actually a cool thing, for it allows Jay to guiltlessly contribute one of those cliché sports columns he hates to read but loves to write.
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The 2012 Chicago E.I.G. Awards (Excellence In Greatness)
2012 was rough for Chicago, but why linger over such foul-smelling stuff? Our EIC is going positive, presenting the deeply personal E.I.G. Awards (for Excellence In Greatness) to the sports figures that earned his admiration.
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Neil Steinberg: Why I Love Sports (A Bit… Lately)
Sports run off Neil Steinberg’s back, like rain off a car hood, like water off a duck’s ass. Some people feel this means he is criticizing sports or laughing at fans, but he’s not. It’s just how it is.
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Riding The Paint St. Martinville: My ’50-To-1′ Shot At Churchill Downs
Chicago novelist Charlie Newton is on set at Churchill Downs, and finds himself riding the paint, the inside rail of the track, like a jockey from St. Martinville, Louisiana.
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Jonathan Eig, Competitor-in-Chief
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.
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The Toughest Chicagoan Of All Time
History enhances some reputations and swallows others. Chicago boxer Jimmy Barry’s falls into that second category, but deserves to be in the first. Here’s why.
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Born To Jog: My (Brief) Run With World-Class Marathoner Wesley Korir
It’s a cool, crisp autumn morning and 29-year-old native of Kenya and professional runner Wesley Korir has agreed to let me tag along on a training run. There’s only one condition: I have to keep up with him.
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Rising: Springsteen’s Tribute to Santo
Friday night, The Boss played Wrigley–and had a special, albeit subtle, surprise for Ron Santo.
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Ernie Banks, Jr.
Ernie Banks, Jr. shares a name and a game with a legend. The 26-year-old minor league first baseman also has big league dreams, but even though he’s inextricably linked to Mr. Cub he’s never met him.
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Springsteen Hits Grand Slam At Wrigley
When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band storm Wrigley Field next month, it will mark the Boss’s first shows in Chicago in almost three years. But it will also be historic: Bruce and his band will be the first musical performers to have played in all four of Chicago’s professional sports venues.
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Jennie Finch: Still Queen Of The Diamond
Two years after she retired, softball legend Jennie Finch is a mother of two living on a farm in Louisiana. But she’s still Queen of the Diamond.
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Chitown Holmes v. Beantown Buckley: Whose Sports Hacks Blow Harder?
Which city’s players have it worse when it comes to media? Boston or Chicago? To consider the question, ChicagoSide brought together veteran sports personalities, Steve Buckley of the Boston Herald and Laurence Holmes of The Score.
