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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: Bears’ real season starts Monday
Nothing against the Colts, Rams, Cowboys or Jaguars. A check of the standings indicates all are real NFL teams doing business in actual cities, though Jacksonville is less a metropolitan area than a life sentence of T.G.I. Friday’s, tanning salons, cellphone stores and Walmarts. Did …Read More
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Pat Fitzgerald laments lost leverage by his Cats
Nebraska had the market cornered on stupid Saturday. The Cornhuskers lost three fumbles and had a recovery of a Northwestern fumble wiped out by a personal-foul penalty. You name it, and Nebraska dumbed it down. It’s the type of opponent and game that the brainy …Read More
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Lions are the Bears’ real rivals
RICK MORRISSEY: This will be considered heresy in a city that involuntarily gags at anything dark green and gold, but there’s not a lot to hate about the Packers, aside from all the obnoxious success.
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Not a great spokes-man
You know it’s bad when Nike, which would support a dictator as long as his AK-47 had a swoosh on it, drops your sorry, saddle-sore butt. And you know you’ve reached a new low when you finally realize that the charity you’ve been hiding behind …
MORRISSEY: Notre Dame has legit chance to win title after false hopes
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — It’s the strangest thing: The school that likes to talk about its 11 national championships doesn’t want to talk about the possibility of winning its 12th this season. The school that has had 12 undefeated, untied seasons won’t say a word …
Morrissey: Sports kinship, real kin aren’t the same
Few people make me grind my teeth more than football coaches, players and front-office types who equate ‘‘team’’ and ‘‘family.’’ The idea behind it, of course, is to create a climate in which teammates are willing to sacrifice everything for each other and the greater …
NIU’s Nabal Jefferson owes debt of gratitude to Fr. Dan Mallette
DeKALB — The football player arrived unannounced Monday night, settled his 287 pounds into a chair and made the lonely priest smile. That was the whole idea. For the next two hours, they talked, the same as it had been for years. Nourishment for both. …
MORRISSEY: Charles in charge: Tillman interception brings Bears to life again
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Charles Tillman won a football game all by himself Sunday. Oh, right. Sorry. This is a team sport, and you know how football coaches are about anything that chips away at the concept of ‘‘family.’’ So we’ll play nice and say Tillman …
Morrissey: Cubs fans might not like to hear this, but rebuilding takes time
We’ve been conditioned to believe a contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. A three-year contract might as well be a one-year contract might as well be a 50-year contract. The length of president Theo Epstein’s deal with the Cubs has some bigger meaning …
MORRISSEY: It’s Jay Cutler’s fault that he’s a distraction after big win
When a national audience sees Cutler, perhaps the most gifted quarterback in franchise history and certainly one of the most controversial Bears ever, walk away from an offensive coordinator who only wants to have a chat during a game, the question that comes to mind is not about how good the team is - It’s about why Jay is being Jay again.
Morrissey: Europeans feel the roar as Medinah maniacs play major role in USA’s lead
This Ryder Cup has had almost everything. A beautiful golf course. Loud, engaged fans. Wonderful weather. Imagine how much better it would have been had the Europeans shown up on time. As it stands, two days into the three-day event, the Ryder Cup has become …
Team Europe has upper hand in huffing and puffing at Ryder Cup
Apparently, the whole golf thing at the Ryder Cup is a ruse, a pretext for a bloodbath the likes of which hasn’t been seen since Normandy. I fear for our safety. On Wednesday, Team Europe’s Ian Poulter admitted to homicidal tendencies. ‘‘There’s something about the …
MORRISSEY: White Sox might not be great team, but they didn’t give in Monday
Baseball is a mystery — a complete, flipping mystery — and as much as people try to solve it with stats, math equations and master’s degrees in business, sometimes there’s no explaining it. I don’t think anyone would go so far as to say the …
MORRISSEY: For Bears, victory trumps woeful offense
If the only thing that matters is the Bears’ improvement to 2-1, then we have nothing to talk about. All conversation can cease, and we can go back to much more important things, such as the iPhone 5 or a Kardashian — any Kardashian. But …
Morrissey: Ryder Cup gives golfers chance to be part of something bigger than them
There’s nothing like being part of a team, and the ultimate proof is in the way multimillionaires playing a thoroughly individual sport fight and claw to make the Ryder Cup squads, then feel the weight of the world to perform well for their newfound teammates. …
Morrissey: D.J. Moore’s silencing is latest move catering to Jay Cutler
The only person in the Bears organization who isn’t enabling Jay Cutler these days recently received a phone call from coach Lovie Smith. The message was simple: You might want to consider knocking off the criticism. Consider it done. “He wasn’t happy at all,’’ defensive …
Morrissey: Alex Rios puts on a great slide show for White Sox
RICK MORRISSEY: There was some talk that the White Sox had done “the little things’’ to beat the Tigers in an extremely important game Monday. It couldn’t have been more wrong. There are no little things when two teams are fighting for a division title in mid-September. There are only big things.
Hey, Fitz, Siemian seems like the better fit at QB
This might seem like an odd time to start agitating for a quarterback change at Northwestern. The Wildcats beat Boston College 22-13 on Saturday to raise their record to 3-0. They have a legitimate chance to start the season 7-0 for the first time since …
Jay Cutler: If you want a QB that doesn’t care, get someone else
RICK MORRISSEY: Did somebody say something about offense? A new, improved, unstoppable, quite possibly otherworldly Bears offense?
MORRISSEY: Jay Cutler,
Brandon Marshall
have Bears
fans giddy
I’m worried about you, little buddy. Yeah, you, the guy who hasn’t been able to wipe the smile off his blue-and-orange-painted face since Sunday. I’m worried about you because, should the Bears beat the Packers on Thursday night, the part of your brain that controls …
