You wanna talk about love/hate? Before 2008, diehard Blackhawks fans were babbling schizophrenics.
This is how it happens. You lose. You blow expectations, you get picked apart by fans and analysts.
Icouldn't play college football for a coach making $4 million a year.
The Bears, despite all the fan anger and depression emanating from the ugly 10-6 loss Thursday night to the San Francisco 49ers, are only a game under .500 with seven games to play.
Rick Telander: Who is Jay Cutler? Do you know? Do you have any real sense of the most-spotlighted athlete in our city at this time? I don't. And if you're honest, I think you'll admit you don't, either.
Rick Telander: All American sports media thrive on the massive head shots, the stuns, the knockouts, the crushes that send a player into a rag-doll heap on the turf. But I wish we all could see the details of the brains of the deceased Andre Waters, Mike Webster and Justin Strzelczyk. That would get our attention.
Here's what the Browns must do. Go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in downtown Cleveland, find a section that suits their individual tastes -- rap, gospel, death metal, whatever -- and quit playing football for a while.
You can call me old or stupid or out of it, but when I meet someone like Tom Ricketts, the first thing I think is: How does anyone in this world make $1.2billion?
How big is the NFL, kids? Real big. And growing. As John Feinstein wrote recently, the NFL is ''the most powerful and profitable league there ever has been in professional sports.'' It is to Major League Baseball and the NBA as a mushroom is to a pair of toadstools.
