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Monday, November 23, 2009

Jay Cutler is a bust

Three field goals in the first half, when at least two of them should've been touchdowns?

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Sports need to take on body issues

This is the body and sex edition of Sunday Stew. It's OK for your 11-year old to read. (Especially because that means the kid READS!) No skin. Not even Levi ''Going Rogue-and-Semi-Nude'' Johnston.

Friday, November 20, 2009

Call it the Cup de grace

You wanna talk about love/hate? Before 2008, diehard Blackhawks fans were babbling schizophrenics.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Word of caution for Cutler: Don't make media your enemy

This is how it happens. You lose. You blow expectations, you get picked apart by fans and analysts.

Monday, November 16, 2009

College coaches' salaries are out of line

Icouldn't play college football for a coach making $4 million a year.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Lovie, Cutler need speak therapy

The Bears, despite all the fan anger and depression emanating from the ugly 10-6 loss Thursday night to the San Francisco 49ers, are only a game under .500 with seven games to play.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Harris' punch KO's own team

It's one thing to lose a game. It's another thing to lose your dignity.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Riddle me this: Who is Cutler?
Rick Telander: Who is Jay Cutler? Do you know? Do you have any real sense of the most-spotlighted athlete in our city at this time? I don't. And if you're honest, I think you'll admit you don't, either.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Concussions not a big deal? Tell that to these guys
Rick Telander: All American sports media thrive on the massive head shots, the stuns, the knockouts, the crushes that send a player into a rag-doll heap on the turf. But I wish we all could see the details of the brains of the deceased Andre Waters, Mike Webster and Justin Strzelczyk. That would get our attention.

Monday, November 2, 2009

This blowout none too pretty

Here's what the Browns must do. Go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in downtown Cleveland, find a section that suits their individual tastes -- rap, gospel, death metal, whatever -- and quit playing football for a while.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Rickettses just like us -- except they're rich

You can call me old or stupid or out of it, but when I meet someone like Tom Ricketts, the first thing I think is: How does anyone in this world make $1.2billion?

Sunday, October 25, 2009

NFL a true juggernaut

How big is the NFL, kids? Real big. And growing. As John Feinstein wrote recently, the NFL is ''the most powerful and profitable league there ever has been in professional sports.'' It is to Major League Baseball and the NBA as a mushroom is to a pair of toadstools.

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