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 Wednesday, May 2 Brad Biggs answers your Bears questions weekly. Lots of folks are wondering about the depth chart at outside linebacker after the team waited until Round 6 to draft one. Is it a big concern? Why play Cody Whitehair at center and have James Daniels learn left guard? Plus much more. The Tribune also talked to Iowa offensive line coach Tim Polasek for insight on Daniels. And the NFL begins the challenging task of trying to explain its new helmet-hitting rule. |
| After last season's Final Four run, Loyola coach Porter Moser wants to establish the program as a perennial college basketball power. |
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| The Cubs had won five in a row, the wind was blowing out, and the manager felt the need to resort to talking about sideshows like snakes and magicians while benching the two hitters who'd driven the offense to first place so he could move up the slumping first baseman. Um, they'd won five straight. Ian Happ, Joe Maddon says, is not facing demotion -- yet. |
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| Top pitching prospect Michael Kopech, who was named the White Sox's Minor League Pitcher of the Month for April, made his fifth start Tuesday night in Charlotte, giving up four runs (three earned) on seven hits with six strikeouts and two walks in six innings. On Wednesday, the Sox lost to the Cardinals, 3-2. |
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| Guess what. If you follow American sport, you support a system that celebrates and rewards mediocrity. Sorry. Some call it "parity." They're fools. It's codified adequacy. |
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| Arike Ogunbowale is still dancing, and the NCAA is still standing. |
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