As he sat there on a red leather couch in the middle of the coach’s office in the wee hours of the night with a cold Stella in hand, Pat Dolan’s day was winding down. Or had it just begun? The distinction of the two is rarely clear these days. Wherever the United States Hockey […]
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I don’t know anyone who wakes up on game day and says to themselves, “I’m emotionally prepared for my team to lose today.” So why do we keep going back to teams that lose game in and game out and expect different results? For the past 106 years, Chicago Cubs fans have had this problem. Not […]
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Although to most he’s unheard of, Sean Manaea is announced to pitch in the Kansas City Royals’ 2015 rotation. The lefty was drafted just last year and described watching the draft as a bittersweet experience. “I heard all of these rumors from different people,” Manaea said. “It had my mind thinking about all of these […]
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Illinois Supreme Court Justice Robert R. Thomas was the athlete who took the path less traveled when he earned his law degree from Chicago’s Loyola University while being a placekicker for the Chicago Bears. Although Thomas, 61, was successful on the football field – a 1973 Sugar Bowl Champion at Notre Dame and NFL player […]
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Zac Lowing likes to say that he is commiserating with the beat-up and rusty. He is a street photographer who documents the abandoned and unnoticed in obscure places using only his Samsung Galaxy S2. Though he is braver than most when it comes to exploring dark alleys, his most recent commission has him frozen with […]
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