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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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MORRISSEY: Cubs’ manager is getting a raw Dale

RICK MORRISSEY: The idea that manager Dale Sveum deserves to be sent packing because of this Cubs mess is laughable.

MORRISSEY: Tiger Woods’ bizarre penalty phase

Tiger Woods and the rules of golf are still estranged. When officials penalized him two strokes Friday during the second round of the BMW Championship, it was his third violation of the year. That’s a crazy number for a pro golfer. If Woods were a …

  • Bears’ Martellus Bennett talks, plays a big game

    RICK MORRISSEY: It’s early yet, but it seems best to step aside when Bears tight end Martellus Bennett gets on a roll, which is most of the time.

  • Marc Trestman starts slow, but Bears are 1-0

    RICK MORRISSEY: It was an odd start for a man who radiates calm — a hazy, crazy, Bizarro World beginning to an NFL coaching career.

  • MORRISSEY: Bears are one big unknown, but mystery beats misery

    If you’re not good at dealing with the unknown, I would strongly suggest you isolate yourself from all things Bears this season. Put a V-chip in your TV and swear off any contact with the Internet. Earplugs wouldn’t be a waste of money. The other …Read More

    • It’s Cutler’s decision-making that needs an adjustment, not his attitude

    MORRISSEY: It might be better if you sit down for this.On Thursday, Jay Cutler prefaced his answer to a reporter’s question with, “Good point.’’ This was groundbreaking stuff in that he generally sees the media as pointless. I don’t think I’m speaking out of turn here, though it’s possible Jay has a profound love of reporters he has been hiding lo these many years.

    2013 Cubs were a losing supposition

    RICK MORRISSEY: Is it acceptable for a team to purposely lose games to get a higher draft pick?

    MORRISSEY: Huskies seemed dead in water, but they rally to top Hawkeyes

    IOWA CITY — Northern Illinois’ slogan for 2013 is “Finish the Fight,’’ but who was kidding whom Saturday? The Huskies were finished. They were done, overcooked, in danger of being burnt to a crisp. They trailed Iowa by seven with 6:42 left, and although that …

    Despite huge payout, NFL concussion issue hardly settled

    MORRISSEY: Now that the small matter of $765 million has been tentatively settled, what about the big stuff? What about the future of football? What about the safety of NFL players going forward?

    Brian Urlacher goes from media snob to media slob

    RICK MORRISSEY: I heard someone mention Brian Urlacher was going to be a TV analyst. I thought I must have heard wrong. No way the former Bears linebacker would join the Dark Side.

    Regarding NFL, ESPN has become worldwide follower

    MORRISSEY: What, you thought ESPN was in business for the humanitarian buzz? The surprise isn’t that the network backed out of its collaboration with PBS’ “Frontline’’ on a documentary film project about concussions in the NFL. It’s that it ventured out of the bed it shares with the league in the first place.

    MORRISSEY: Bears’ dominant first half fueled by impressive offensive diversity

    OAKLAND, Calif. — I’d like to point out that my finger didn’t hit the panic button last week about the subject of the Bears’ offense. It might have been hovering while considering an emergency landing, but did it touch down? No, it didn’t. I was …

    Mike Ditka was back where he belongs

    RICK MORRISSEY: I never have pretended to understand the bewildering ways of the McCaskeys, and I’m fairly sure a Daisy Cutter bomb wouldn’t be able to penetrate Mike Ditka’s pride.

    MORRISSEY: Warren Brown was sports columnist for different age

    I’m visiting a lost world. I’m sitting in Pete Brown’s kitchen in the western suburbs, and spread out between us are mementos of his late grandfather, Chicago sports columnist Warren Brown. There are letters to Brown from Gene Tunney and Ford Frick. Photos of Brown …

    MORRISSEY: Cubs need not rethink letting Ryne Sandberg go

    Now that the Philadelphia Phillies have named Ryne Sandberg their interim manager, I’m sure some Cubs fans are saying, ‘‘I told you so.’’ But that would be an appropriate response only if the Cubs had announced to the world that Sandberg would never be a …

    Jay Cutler, Bears’ offense need to show progress

    RICK MORRISSEY: Thursday night’s “game’’ against the Chargers is the second of the preseason for the Bears, and all we want to see from the offense is progress. That’s it. If Jay Cutler can begin the game with a completed pass to his own team, that would be progress, if not cause for a parade.

    Will Bears ever have another great offensive line?

    RICK MORRISSEY: Just once more before I die, I’d like the Bears to have a lockdown offensive line. That’s all I’m asking. Not that there would be peace on earth, a cure for the common cold or a winning Mega Millions ticket in my immediate future. Just that the Bears have an offensive line free of doubt, chaos and untalented endomorphs.

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