- News & Features, Feature, Apr 25, 2013
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The man who transformed high school baseball on the south side
Simeon Career Academy's veteran high school coach has spent three decades building an unlikely baseball dynasty. Will Leroy Franklin and his Wolverines finally get the recognition they deserve?
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Apr 3, 2013
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Are baseball predictions—and by extension our annual Golden BAT awards—falling out of fashion?
The Tribune's Mark Gonzales is the winner of our 33rd annual Baseball Acumen Test. But the playing field is smaller.
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Mar 6, 2013
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The story behind the story of the game that changed college basketball
Mike Lenehan's Ramblers aims to go behind the headlines about racial integration and the 1963 NCAA regional semifinals.
- News & Features, Feature, Dec 20, 2012
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People Issue 2012:
Kayce Ataiyero, the GM"Even as a lifelong basketball fan I didn't appreciate how complex the business is."
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 13, 2012
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All or nothing as usual for White Sox
The White Sox and Detroit Tigers face one last grudge match after the Tigers trim the Sox' lead to one game
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 3, 2012
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Tossing the pigskin around all week long on the Bleader
This week's Variations on a Theme asks, "Are you ready for some football?"
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 10, 2012
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Fake Olympics: Bake Olympics edition
Did Olympics commercials really inspire me to my own act of Olympian greatness?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 31, 2012
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The science of swimsuits
Technology that wins gold medals
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Jun 27, 2012
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Will Eno turns off the social filters
They're all telling the truth in Oh, the Humanity!
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 1, 2012
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Once again, it's fútbol, not football, at Soldier Field
What did the the Mexico-Bosnia soccer game at Soldier Field have to say about a nation of immigrants?
- News & Features, Mudville, Mar 21, 2012
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Even winners go out losers
DePaul and senior Deanna Ortiz bow out of the NCAA tourney
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 8, 2012
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Obsolescence Week: save the game lead
Can the traditional sports game lead survive in the age of video on demand?
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Feb 23, 2012
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Our itch to write about jocks
When journalists preach on sport's Big Themes, they're lecturing the wayward
- News & Features, Mudville, Feb 9, 2012
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Cheering for losers
Even the excellent DePaul women’s basketball team stinks it up when I get behind them
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 18, 2011
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The new "Cubs way": No nonsense
Dale Sveum becomes the new Cubs manager, and it's business as unusual.
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 8, 2011
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Mocksession explores the funny, painful, and bizarre margins of sports
Mocksession.com captures the peculiar and odd moments in sports, so that you can see someone get hit in the face with a foul ball over and over and over again, without interruption.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 30, 2011
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A new interest in the economy
On Obama's coming jobs speech, another stimulus, and the need to bone up on economics.
- News & Features, Mudville, Aug 25, 2011
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The doubledays of summer
Baseball fans double their "pleasure" with both Cubs and Sox in town
- News & Features, Mudville, Jul 20, 2011
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Squeaker on pavement:
a pickup basketball game goes down to the last shot
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 9, 2011
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And on the second day, Eggers writes about Wrigley
On the second day of Bill Simmons' new website, Grantland, Dave Eggers contributes a piece on Wrigley Field and the Cubs.
