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Rick Morrissey biography
Rick Morrissey has been a sports columnist at the Sun-Times since December 2009. Before that, he was a columnist at the Chicago Tribune for nine …
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Wildcats better than expected, Illini worse despite same Big Ten records
RICK MORRISSEY: You look at Illinois and see talent. You look at Northwestern and see John Shurna, who doesn’t look like much of a basketball player until it dawns on you that he just dropped 24 points on your overrated, underachieving butt.
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Tom Thibodeau must weigh Derrick Rose’s health vs. short-term gain
To find a team worse than the Hornets, you’d probably have to go to the Chicago Public League. Yet Derrick Rose and his grumpy back played 22 senseless minutes in a blowout victory over New Orleans on Wednesday night. I’m not sure what the purpose …Read More
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Research suggests cliches might be best elite athletes can do after game
Having just spent a week among pro football players, I can tell you with near certainty that ‘‘it is what it is.’’ I also can tell you the Giants and Patriots pledged to ‘‘stay within ourselves’’ in Super Bowl XLVI. The importance of ‘‘making plays …Read More
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No denying Eli Manning respect as he bags 2nd title, 2nd MVP crown
INDIANAPOLIS — He was the quieter Manning, the one without all the drama, the guy who, no matter what he seemed to do, couldn’t get rid of the shadow that followed him. Oh, Eli Manning tried. He declared himself an elite quarterback before the season …
Giants going overboard with ‘underdog’ talk
INDIANAPOLIS — The New York Giants have worked the underdog angle like a pack mule. ‘‘Nobody believed in us,’’ defensive tackle Chris Canty said. ‘‘Nobody gave us an opportunity to even make the playoffs.’’ Really? Nobody? Nobody in the whole, wide world? ‘‘We’re going to …
Giants coach Tom Coughlin is no turkey
INDIANAPOLIS — Tom Coughlin seems to be about as much fun as an earache. Nobody scowls, winces and pouts more than this guy, which is weird because we’re supposedly in the Happy Tom era. “When I came into the league in 2005, he was running …
Eli Manning will have trouble measuring up to Peyton no matter what he does
INDIANAPOLIS — When Eli Manning was a kid, his older brother Peyton would pin him down, rap on his chest and demand that he name the schools of the Southeastern Conference. It’s amazing what bare knuckles can do for memorization skills. Once that challenge was …
Patriots QB Tom Brady handled Super Bowl media day with aplomb
INDIANAPOLIS — The TV entertainment reporter in the Tom Brady jersey had a question for the Tom Brady in the Tom Brady jersey. ‘‘Did you want this rematch as bad as I did?’’ she said. ‘‘Because I hate the Giants.’’ Oh, no. Nobody could want …
Listening to new Bears GM Phil Emery doesn’t inspire much confidence
I would have felt better if Phil Emery had said that, thanks to his time at the U.S. Naval Academy, he knew 14 ways to kill a man with his bare hands. At least that would have shown some individuality. But if I had to …
Simeon’s Jabari Parker is more than just a basketball star
Some of the crowd had squeezed out of the small gym on South Vincennes Avenue, and the high-pitched, nearly constant blare of a Simeon game at full throttle was gone, replaced by a reasonable roar. Jabari Parker had done what you would expect from the …
Luol Deng’s injury gives Tom Thibodeau plenty to be scared about
We all know what the definition of “scary” is for the Bulls. Scary is Derrick Rose missing a long stretch of the season because of injury. If you let your fears take over, scary is Rose running with scissors or crossing the street without looking …
Who has a better chance of winning a championship in 2012: the Bulls or the Blackhawks?
RICK MORRISSEY: Today, filled with wonder over our winter-sport good fortune, Mr. Happy has a happy question for the class. Who has a better chance of winning a championship in 2012: the Bulls or the Blackhawks?
Patrick Kane is left out of Blackhawks’ scoring fun
RICK MORRISSEY: Kaner the Entertainer couldn’t be plainer these days. He’s looking for answers. So are the Hawks. So is anyone who wonders what is happening to one of the anchors of the franchise.
It’s inevitable that Derrick Rose will be seriously hurt
A few weeks ago, my Sun-Times comrade, Rick Telander, brought up a topic that most Bulls fans would prefer to see buried with radioactive waste: What if Derrick Rose gets hurt and misses significant time? Let’s take it a painful step further into the declarative. …Read More
Worship of Tim Tebow more like hardship
One of the wonders of the Internet is that an acorn can grow into a forest fire in a matter of hours. A certain sports columnist from Chicago — we’ll call him “Rick Morrissey” — writes that Tim Tebow isn’t a good quarterback and that …Read More
Cubs’ statistical-analysis system needs name; Captain Blow is as good as any
Perhaps you missed this while you were ironing your vintage LaTroy Hawkins jersey for the Cubs Convention, but the Cubs recently announced a plan to create a computer system for their top-secret analytical information. It leaves us with a heavy responsibility: the naming of the …
How can this be? Bears considering Jerry Angelo’s buddy Tim Ruskell for GM job
What’s most troubling about the Tim Ruskell rumors is not that they’re still around but that they started. If I have this straight, the Bears fired general manager Jerry Angelo because they thought he wasn’t good at a job that puts a premium on the …
Temptation for Bulls to get Dwight Howard can’t be dismissed
A friend of mine wrote a screenplay about American heavyweight boxer Joe Louis that centered on two fights with German Max Schmeling in the 1930s. The story had everything — the difficulties Louis faced as a black man in a white world, Adolf Hitler’s warped …
Hiring leaders with rings has never been Bears’ way
RICK MORRISSEY: Mike Ditka is to blame for the Bears’ mess. Well, not really. But he’s a good place to start if you’re trying to figure out how the team got into the bad habit of setting its sights low.
Tim Tebow fans, your silence is deafening
It’s the strangest thing, this heavy, almost lonesome silence. I received scads of loud, nasty e-mails after I had offered the double-barreled opinion that Tim Tebow wasn’t an NFL-quality quarterback and that God surely had other worries than whether the Broncos won or lost football …
