Super Bowl commercials are the highlight of the game for me. Advertisers bring their A game, and every year there are a few commercials that will be talked about for days. This year was no different. Advertisements reflect their audience. Advertisers spend tremendous effort working to understand their audience and…  [more]

Tim Tebow is polarizing in the sports world. It seems almost everyone has an opinion about the college football superstar turned Denver Broncos quarterback. For some, it’s an issue of how his public faith meshes with sports. For others, it’s the disbelief that he’s a starting NFL quarterback who has…  [more]

Here in Chicago, we have rules - things you just don’t do. Among them: You don’t put ketchup on a hot dog. You don’t call it Cloud Gate; it’s “the Bean.” And you don’t badmouth the beloved Walter Payton. In this football town, the larger-than-life Super Bowl XX Bears are…  [more]

The Detroit Lions are good, the Green Bay Packers are great, the Chicago Bears are inconsistent and the Minnesota Vikings are incapable of holding a lead. That’s the sports news from the Upper Midwest a few weeks into football season. I don’t know this from the newspaper or the sports…  [more]

I never wanted to believe Barry Bonds, but I always wanted to believe Lance Armstrong. Armstrong was not just a sports hero. He seemed to redefine the limits of the human body. Armstrong overcame testicular cancer to win the Tour de France bicycling championship - arguably the most grueling event…  [more]