Sports
Monday, May 21, 2012
Mudville Sports Hyping the humble: Sports Illustrated's Jabari Parker profile
Posted by Ted Cox on 05.21.12 at 12:17 PM
That's typical glossy-magazine hype, especially in an era when Time puts a breastfeeding woman on its cover, and Newsweek's labels Barack Obama "the first gay president."
Even so, it does set off the BS detector, as I seem to recall a certain pretty good player, also at Simeon, named Derrick Rose in between Parker and James.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Mudville Sports Splitsville: White Sox win, Wood walks off
Posted by Ted Cox on 05.19.12 at 11:30 AM
I went to what turned out to be a hotly contested rivalry game between the White Sox and the Cubs, and a retirement party broke out.
The game, a 3-2 Sox victory Friday in the first of a three-game set this weekend at Wrigley Field, was overshadowed by Kerry Wood's final appearance. Wood had already informed the Cubs brass that he wanted to retire, that his body no longer was able to recover quickly enough to make him an effective reliever on a day-to-day basis, but that he didn't want to go out on his last appearance, which ended with him disgustedly tossing his hat and glove into the stands behind the Cubs' dugout. So manager Dale Sveum decided to "give him his day in the sun, so to speak," even though as it turned out Sveum wasn't there for it, as he had been ejected for arguing an umpire's call when the moment came in the eighth inning.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Mudville Sports It's a beautiful day for a ball game indeed
Posted by Ted Cox on 05.18.12 at 01:11 PM
- Ted Cox
- Robin Ventura: The skipper tests his flipper
Fraternization reigned supreme. With the wind wafting out during batting practice, the Cubs' light-hitting Reed Johnson clubbed one to the last row of the left-field bleachers.
"Ah, Reed, do it!" called out Sox outfielder Alex Rios, a former teammate of Johnson's on the Toronto Blue Jays.
"That's my game, baby," Johnson called back as he began trotting around the bases after his turn in the batting cage.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Mudville Media Sports News The family Ricketts, Obama, and the Cubs
Posted by Michael Miner on 05.17.12 at 12:07 PM
Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, "is increasingly putting his fortune to work in conservative politics," the New York Times reports Thursday. The Times offers a detailed description of a 54-page, $10 million plan called "The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama: The Ricketts Plan to End His Spending for Good."
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Mudville Sports Prescription for White Sox success: win in your damn division
Posted by Ted Cox on 05.16.12 at 02:47 PM
- Paul Boucher
- Adam Dunn: There's nothing to smile about until you start beating your division rivals consistently.
Win games against your goddamn division rivals.
It couldn't be more plain. In years when the Sox excelled, such as 2005 and 2008, they beat up on their division rivals. Last season, by contrast, they were 32-40 against the American League Central. They were 5-13 against the eventual division champs in Detroit, but a woeful 7-11 against sub-.500 Kansas City. They played the Twinkies even at 9-9, and dominated only basement-dwelling Cleveland at 11-7.
Monday, May 14, 2012
Mudville Media Sports News Why don't they publish scores anymore?
Posted by Michael Miner on 05.14.12 at 10:50 AM
So in the Monday Tribune thrown up on my doorstep, I didn't expect the account of Sunday's NBA playoff game between Miami and Indiana—a game I had to turn off a few minutes before it ended—to heap on the color and detail. But I did suppose that somewhere in the story, or in the headlines accompanying the story, the Tribune would mention the final score.
Is it just me? Back in tenth grade I turned in a report on a junior varsity basketball game that was heavy on the quips but forgot to mention the score. I was thrown off the school paper. That was traumatic, so don't trust my judgment.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Adam Dunn K Watch Mudville Adam Dunn HR Watch Sports Bums' rush: Come back, Big Donkey (and Becks and Rios)
Posted by Ted Cox on 05.12.12 at 01:31 PM
- Paul Boucher
- Adam Dunn mashes a first-inning homer Friday night at White Sox Park.
Adam Dunn crushed a first-inning home run to give Gavin Floyd all the runs he'd need to beat the Kansas City Royals. Gordon Beckham followed a two-out Alejandro De Aza single and stolen base in the third with a two-out RBI single up the middle. Dunn followed that with a two-out ground-rule double that, unfortunately, left Becks at third, where he was stranded when Paul Konerko's broken-bat liner to short left was stabbed by a diving Alex Gordon, depriving Paulie of the chance to blow the game open, an opportunity seized instead by the unlikely Alex Rios three innings later with a two-out, two-run triple, scoring Becks, who'd led off with a double, and A.J. Pierzynski, who'd replaced Dunn, who'd walked, on the bases with a fielder's choice.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Adam Dunn K Watch Mudville Sports Adam Dunn whiffs for the record this weekend
Posted by Steve Bogira on 05.11.12 at 02:47 PM
- Johnny Sampson
- Who's behind that steady breeze on the south side?
Correct! He hasn't missed at missing once—not for a whole game, anyway. Add to that his last four games of 2011, and the Big Breeze has a 36-game missing streak going. That's one shy of the record, which Dunn will likely tie in the Cell tonight against KC.
The 37-game record is held by Oak Park native Bill Stoneman, a Montreal pitcher drafted by the Cubs in 1966. Stoneman's streak started in April 1971 and ended the following April. But, well, he was a pitcher, with a lifetime batting average of .086.
Mudville Sports News Bulls: you gotta bereave
Posted by Ted Cox on 05.11.12 at 10:38 AM
- Wikimedia Commons
- C.J. Watson: shades of the Bears' Marion Barber
The saddest thing about the Bulls' opening-round playoff loss to the Philadelphia 76ers—and, mind you, this was a six-game set that included Derrick Rose blowing out his knee and Joakim Noah gruesomely twisting his ankle, removing both from action for the duration—is that it was there to be had in the end.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Media Sports News The Sheridan station: The forgotten Cubs CTA stop
Posted by Michael Miner on 05.10.12 at 09:55 AM
—A commitment to restore the CTA Sheridan Red Line El Station
Is Tunney seriously overreaching? You may be asking yourself that. Only the half of the station west of Sheffield Avenue is even in his ward. And whenever the City Council approves the new ward map, it'll all be in the 46th.
