The best CD I have heard so far this year is Reckless Kelly’s “Bulletproof.”   What?  Who?  Reckless Kelly, mostly from Idaho but based in the real music capital of America, Austin, Texas.  These guys are good and they work hard too.And you know a President has pretty much hit rock bottom when a cowboy band [...]

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My colleague,Rick Carter, did a fine job in the post below laying out the peculiar ins and outs of the yearly interleague games between the two Chicago baseball teams.   And kudos to Cub fans on soundly winning round one over the weekend.
But this column is about the fans of the White Sox.  Last Wednesday I [...]

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   It’s a good week to be a baseball fan in the city of Chicago. The Cubs and White Sox will both be in first place when they square off Friday at Wrigley Field in their annual interleague series that would be emotionally charged even if the two teams were hopelessly mired in last place. [...]

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My wife was aghast when she found the six cases of beer hidden under a tarp in the back of our garage.Why six cases of beer, she asked. Because, I said, that is the weekly limit now at the local carry out, I will get six more cases next week. Huh, are you [...]

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I have been thinking a lot the last couple of days about Jim McKay. More than anything I wondered if he every listened to sports talk radio or got up every morning and watched a couple of hours of Sportscenter.
Somehow I doubt it though I am sure he still kept up with the Wide [...]

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I was thirteen years old and down in the rock and roll clubhouse I had built in the basement. My dad had banished me there months earlier because I was listening to the “Negro” radio station in Pittsburgh and he didn’t want to hear it. So I saved all of my money from [...]

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