Why are your team's starts on both sides of the ball such a joke, John Fox? I'll hang up and listen for more hummena-hummena-hummena. After Deonte Thomson ran the kickoff back 48 yards to midfield, the Bears promptly moved back 15 yards by third down. But wait. It gets worse.
This isn't the way Mark Hopman expected his final year as Rich South's athletic director to end. It was supposed to be a celebration of almost two decades building the athletic department into one of the Southland's most efficient. And there would be the final time hosting the McDipper tournament.
There is clarity in the blur that is the video image of Alfontish Cockerham running from the law.
The holiday gift shopping season is in full frantic gear now, with millions of Americans seeking just the perfect present for everyone on their list. Or, if not the perfect gift, at least something passable. Or if not something passable, maybe this is the year to give ... money? A donation to plant...
What if the Los Angeles public schools get another email promising a terrorist attack on Monday? And Tuesday? And Wednesday? If you close the schools the first time, what do you do the next time? If I were a lazy terrorist with no guns, bombs or desire for martyrdom, I'd be keeping up a steady...
Black Friday protests, Egg McMuffins for dinner and Michael Jordan's multimillion-dollar beef with Dominick's and Jewel were among the much-talked-about business stories that captivated Chicagoans in 2015. Here are the Tribune's top business stories of the year.
Cards Against Humanity — the popular party game business that pairs "adult" humor with a sometimes treacly side of social mission — bought workers at the Chinese factory that makes its game something they don't normally get: a paid vacation. The Chicago-based firm said in a blog post that it used...
The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Friday to block the planned merger of two Chicago-area hospital chains, saying that the combination of Advocate Health Care and NorthShore University HealthSystem would stifle competition in northern Cook and Lake counties. Advocate is the largest hospital...
One day after getting placed in handcuffs and charged with seven counts of securities fraud and conspiracy, pharmaceutical bad boy Martin Shkreli resigned from his job as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. Ron Tilles, chairman of the New York pharmaceutical startup, will replace Shkreli on an interim...
The morning after Cubs President Theo Epstein warned of the importance of staying "humbled and hungry as an organization," a national newspaper referred to the team in a headline as "the next great dynasty." Later that day, a Las Vegas oddsmaker installed the Cubs as co-favorites with the Giants...
Glen Gardner has watched Todd Frazier's rise from a Little League World Series champion to a two-time Reds All-Star to the White Sox's new great hope at third base. The longtime Rutgers assistant coach, who recruited New Jersey native Frazier and his older brothers, fondly tells the story of a...
Photos of all the touchdowns the Bears have scored this season.
When Adam McKay was in town last week with his latest film, "The Big Short," I asked what it felt like to return to Chicago. McKay spent the bulk of his 20s here, honing his comedy chops on the city's improv scene before landing a job at "Saturday Night Live" in 1995. "It's always weird because...
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra would appear to be so locked into its long-term retrospective mindset that it is suffering short-term memory loss. The unfortunate victim, at present, is guest conductor James Conlon, who returns to the downtown podium this weekend at Symphony Center to lead the CSO...
Chi-Town Rising, a new New Year's Eve event intended to boost winter tourism in the city, will be a smaller celebration than planned and the main attraction is no longer free to the public. When the spectacle was announced in September, organizers boasted there would be free live music at a stage...
It's the most extroverted time of the year. Holiday season can be hard on introverts, who recharge during quiet down time, not loud parties, and prefer in-depth conversations with old friends to small-talk with new acquaintances. There are office parties, holiday parties, cocktail parties — all...
It's the video that spouses across the country have been sending each other. "Instagram Husband," a 2-minute video with nearly 4 million views on YouTube, follows husbands as they sip coffee and apathetically snap photos for their wives' hipster feeds. "Behind every cute girl on Instagram is a...
With apologies to the 18th-century carol whose beauty and symbolism celebrate the time between Jesus Christ's birth and the Epiphany, I hereby offer a modern twist on "The 12 Days of Christmas," as it would be sung by my children. Son: On the first day of Christmas, my mom gave to me ... a Shopkins...
It was just an innocent slumber party — two 16-year-old girls eating pizza, dancing to Beyonce and giggling over boys, the same way I did with my friends at that age, except back then we were dancing to Fleetwood Mac. But I soon realized I'd unwittingly put my daughter in bed with the object of...
