Matt who? The TV announcers seemed flummoxed at the recent U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Lincoln, Neb., as the men's 100-meter backstrokers splashed toward the wall.
Be prepared for an explosion, folks! Any time now, Captain Ahab (Ozzie Guillen) is going to detonate like a peg-legged fool too long at sea.
LOS ANGELES -- This Stew has a West Coast angle, but it comes with heartland sentiments.
It was April 13 when I wrote it, April 14 when it ran and three months that I have been ridiculed for it.
So the Bears sign former Detroit Lions running back Kevin Jones for basically nothing Tuesday, and that's what passes for news as we enter the summer doldrums.
How do you throw 98 mph? This is what I asked San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Tim Lincecum a few minutes after he cut down the Cubs 4-2 on Sunday at rockin' Wrigley and sent ''The Little Engine That Wants To'' into the All-Star break on a one-game losing streak.
Let's start with a baseball revelation. I have been going to Wrigley Field for nearly five decades -- the first time as a little kid with my dad, then as a patrol boy with my grammar-school buddies, then as a degenerate college student and finally as a working scribe.
You'd think a game with 27 hits and eight home runs at sold-out Wrigley Field on a hot summer day would be exciting, wouldn't you?
Isuppose you can look at it this way -- Milwaukee got 100 pounds more pitcher than the Cubs.
Derrick Rose made it out. He clawed out of the mean streets of Chicago, doing things right, doing things with dignity, cultivating his stunning athletic talent the way a florist might cultivate a rare orchid.
George Carlin died the other day, and Lou Piniella paid homage to the great comedian by using -- let's be conservative here -- uh, three of the seven words you can't say on TV.
'What color is he?'' When I saw those words in print, then heard the recording of the actual question, my first thought was: What century is this from?
