"In hockey, a championship window only stays open so long, and cap-crunched, aging teams built for the the playoffs like the Rangers and Blackhawks can already feel theirs shutting."

He should have just shed his contract instead of holding out to get something for him. Now he is stuck with an old Sharp.

Bernstein likes to fashion himself as a breaker of news, but mostly what he does is pass on educated guesses and only counts his winners. For a while he was "reporting" from his inside sources at Halas Hall that Brandon Marshall will be released, but if it doesn't happen, don't expect a retraction. If it does, he will…

But it gets kind of old. They do a nice job of ridiculing callers' claims of expertise because they "played the game" and Bernstein is good at noting that no one cares which team you love or that you were at the game. But Boers needs to give way. His repertoire has been reduced to a group of phrases like "what are you…

It's all over the place.

Last year I assume they were trying to get some real value for him. This year I think they'd be OK just losing his contract.

Word is that it is Duncan Keith's wife. I think if they can dump Sharp by Monday, all well be well. He is playing terribly.

I think his suit is made from the bone of actual herring.

People are great at recognizing your addiction as a "disease"—as long as you are clean. If you relapse, it's a moral failing and you are a drunken/addicted bum. If he actually confessed and didn't need to, he is following his program of recovery the right way. Unfortunately, relapse can be part of the disease.

Oh come on, when you played, did you play by yourself? That kind of stick on body happens all the time in hockey (and apparently you don't know what a pokecheck is). Kane wasn't hit in a way that drove him face first into the boards. He tripped and his own momentum carried him low into the boards sideways. The play…

Eddie O really lost his senses as portraying this as a dirty check to the numbers of a defense player against the board. Kane was barely tapped. He lost his balance and his momentum carried him into the boards sideways. And when you have Duncan Keith on your team, you shouldn't be complaining about cheap shots.

"Sandra Hill, his mother who died of breast cancer in May 2014."

At least he had the sense to make a real apology that summed up who the real asswipe was here. But as awful as the Paterno apologists and culture were and are, too often Penn State is portrayed as having some monopoly on maniacal and self-aggrandizing behavior. If you could graft the entire Paterno scenario onto some…

OK, so I wasn't the moron here.

I don't see where Peterson has any leverage. If he doesn't play, he doesn't get paid. It's not like the Vikings could get much for him, so they don't have a big incentive to move him

Does this mean the back of his jersey will read "Upton Jr."? That has become the thing in football, as if we have to distinguish guys from their fathers, even if we have no idea who their fathers are. If your name is John Smith, Jr., your last name is Smith, not Smith Jr. The Jr. (or the III) goes with the full name,…

10,000—really?

Gosh, thanks bringing a note of reality to this. So many problems afflict the black South Side. Gentrification, not on of them.

I don't know where that idea came from that you if you decline a lap dance you are taking money away from her.

The onus is not on them, no. I understand they go along with what authority tells them to. But they're aware. If other kids living around you are on one team, and you are on something like an all-star team, you know stuff is going on, and everybody does. They are in Little League, they know how it's determined whom…