It’s funny because Baby Boomers are the ones that invented participation trophies, it’s not like 5-year-old millennials came up with that idea

Yeah, exactly this. I’m a Chicagoan and for the bulk of my 30+ years on this Earth the Bears have been a smoldering tire fire but that never by any means overshadowed the MJ 3-peats in the 90's, the 2005 World Series that mysteriously didn’t happen, the ‘Hawks 3 Cups in the last decade or the Cubs sending us all into…

I know that Bellemare’s got to support his guy, and MAF did have a career year and a stellar playoffs before the SCF, but to claim that MAF is even in the conversation for best in the league let alone the obvious choice is fucking hilarious.

If you’re within a couple of points of 100 (let’s say between like 97 and 103) then you’re looking at something that is probably as much (or moreso) measuring ability over luck. For example, if you’ve got an elite goalie who puts up Vezina-caliber performances year-in-year-out like say Tukka Rask or Carey Price then…

Why should they care? There have been countless incidents of police brutality and outright murder that have been caught on video in the last several years, either filmed by bystanders or by the police officers’ own body cameras, and how many of them have led to the officers facing any actual consequences for their…

Yeah that’s not even remotely accurate. Is Northwestern less relevant than you’d expect a program spending $270M on a practice facility to be? Unarguably yes. But to say that they’re less relevant than the University of Illinois is laughable. The only reason anyone north of like Bloomington even remembers that U of I…

First they finally get over the hump by beating the Penguins for the first time since 1994 and reaching the conference finals for the first time since 1998. Then they beat a Tampa team laden with recent ex-Rangers (and Chris Kunitz) in the conference finals, and now they go into the Stanley Cup Final against a team…

That’s a garbage analogy, there’s a cure for ebola

Yep, great job by Wilson to start a fight at center ice not only with a player considerably less valuable to his team than Wilson is but also while the Caps had something going in the offensive zone. As thoroughly entertaining as it was watching Wilson just obliterate Coburn, that doesn’t mean it was a particularly…

I’m just surprised that they released it at the end of the day today and not the end of the day on Friday leading into Memorial Day weekend

Re: A Million Little Things - the fact that you left Psych’s own Shawn motherfucking Spencer (aka James Roday) out of the “Anyone in it that I care about?” list is either a massive oversight or makes your judgement in general incredibly circumspect.

I agree with you that he takes himself less seriously than Skip Bayless does, but that’s not exactly a high bar to clear. I disagree that that makes him more entertaining or readable, but taste is of course subjective

And that differs how exactly from the work Skip produced for the Trib in the late 90's? Rosenbloom, Marioti and Skip are all cut from the same idiotic cloth

It’s not so much that Rosenbloom is the local version of Skip Bayless, it’s more that Rosenbloom took over the mantle from Skip. Skip was a Trib columnist 20 years ago before gaining national fame (he was no less a pompous asshole then than he is now), Rosenbloom is just picking up where Skip left off

When I was growing up in the Chicagoland area the Chicago Tribune was a serious and highly-respected newspaper, the true paper of record for the city, while the Chicao Sun-Times was mostly useful as packing fodder or to cover your head if it was raining and you forgot your umbrella. While the Sun-Times has improved…

False. Rosenbloom’s schtick has long been complete fucking idiocy that, once pointed out, he claims was sarcasm when in reality he was being 100% serious. Rosenbloom is a shitheel, plain and simple

Ovi is actually scoring in the playoffs (for once)

To be fair I’m pretty sure that the competition is/was open to students across the nation, and the fact that these kickass girls happen to live so close to Goddard is just coincidental

sexual orientation is a protected class, political affiliation is not. It’s actually a pretty clear and obvious difference

Do you seriously not realize how much fucking harder it will be to claim that tossing out a black guy with a BLM shirt or hat is political and not racial than this was? This asshole tried to push forth the argument that the hat was a religious symbol, not a political one, and if that defense had any merit to it…