chicago-tribune Stories - Required Elements
Fox Sports drops the ball in the Jay Cutler fake headline fiasco
Every Chicago Bears fan knows the story by now. Fox Sports, in an effort to drive home the company's anti Jay Cutler agenda, invented some fake newspaper headlines for the week one game against the Atlanta Falcons. Fox wanted to show how even the city of Chicago had turned on Jay and questioned...
Don't expect the Bears on HBO's "Hard Knocks"
Last month we ran a poll asking if you'd like to see the Chicago Bears on HBO's Hard Knocks. The popular reality TV series that follows an NFL team around training camp documenting their every move. The majority of the votes were hopeful that our Monsters of the Midway would somehow end up as the...
Predictions that are Just as Bad as Mine. Probably...
Here is a Chicago Tribune writeup about figure skating medalist predictions. The panel consisted of Juliet Macur and Jere Longman of the New York Times; Christine Brennan and Kelly Whiteside of USA Today; and the one, the only, Philip Hersh. My precursor to this is that, as anyone who follows...
Carroll: Judges are Political
Here's a Chicago Tribune article (by Philip Hersh) that discusses Evan Lysacek's prep following his second place showing at Cup of China. Apparently, Lysacek received an edge downgrade for his triple flip but he and coach Franch Carroll could not understand why. Additionally, Carroll has some...
I Get a Detention
Because I have been sooo busy that I never got to publish the rest of my yearbooks. And now the new season has begun and so much has happened that they are not relevant, but whatever, any predictions are pretty much irrelevant in this sport from one week to the next these days. So here is what I...
Hersh on Czisny and Weir
Chicago Tribune's Philip Hersh is contending that Alissa Czisny was propped up by the program components score at the U.S. Nationals. I'm not necessarily going to argue, although I liked the outcome. Hersh points out that Czisny only landed three triples in the free skate, which is pretty much...
Belbin and Agosto Out of Nationals; Delobel and Schoenfelder out of Europeans
The Chicago Tribune reports that reigning five-time U.S. ice dancing champions, Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, are not going to be competing this year due to Agosto's back injury that led to their withdrawal from the Grand Prix Final last month. The article states that the couple does intend to...
Phil Hersh Taking Questions
According to Figure Skating Online, they will be having a chat with Phil Hersh of the Chicago Tribune and are now taking question submissions. Be sure to submit away. I know I have a lot to ask him...
Hersh Wants Sasha Cohen Back!
Philip Hersh of the Chicago Tribune is begging Sasha Cohen to come back and save figure skating for the U.S. ladies field. In his reasoning: The six best scores of her career (including those at the 2006 worlds and Olympics) are better than those of any U.S. skater except the Meissner who once was...
Philip Hersh on Kimmie Meissner
If you can handle another article about the changes Kimmie Meissner has made and her new attitude this skating season, here's a nice one from Philip Hersh in the Chicago Tribune.
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