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O Captain! My Captain! I mean… Paulie! Paulie!
Photo Credit The Chicago White Sox of the new millennium are a team led by two men to whom the chaos of Disco Demolition Night might be nothing more than an average Tuesday evening. General Manager...
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5 Kickass… Chicago Bowling Alleys
Who doesn’t love a sport you can play with a beer in your hand? That’s what I thought. The number of bowling alleys (I refuse to call them bowling “centers”) in Chicago has dwindled over the last...
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The Start of a New Bulls Dynasty
Photo Credit At 62-20, the Chicago Bulls finished the 2010/2011 season with the best record in the NBA. The last time the Bulls finished with the best record in the league was during the 1997/1998...
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5 Kickass… Outdoor Basketball Courts
California Park | 3843 N. California Ave. California Park is a great place to play ball because it features all the fundamentals a player would want in a court: it’s full-sized, painted free throw,...
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Chris’s Billiards: A Chicago Classic
Photo Credit: Seth Anderson “Pool excellence is not about excellent pool.” That line comes from “Fast” Eddie Felson, one of the lead characters in Martin Scorsese’s 1986 film The Color of Money. Parts...
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Fishing in Chicago
Photo Credit When I told people I was writing an article about fishing in Chicago I got a lot of blank stares. Verbal responses were less than encouraging. Are there fish to be caught? If so, how many...
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Chicago’s Windy City Rollers
Flickr Credit:–m500– / CC BY 2.0 Chicago’s history with roller derby (a term coined by the Chicago Tribune) goes as far back as 1935 when people would pack the old Chicago Coliseum to see “Colonel Leo...
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