Monthly Archives: April 2014

My April 5 column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) Should Duke’s Jabari Parker go pro? Should Kansas’ Joel Embiid? What about Kentucky’s Julius Randle, or any of the Wildcats’ other fab frosh? Well, if they’re sure-fire lottery picks, the answer is probably yes. You don’t gamble on that kind of money. But as a college […]

My April 3 column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) For Tim Beckman, even when he’s right, it still somehow ends up being wrong. On Monday morning after spring football practice in Champaign, the University of Illinois’ third-year football coach turned a molehill into something of a mountain when he spoke out against a recent Sports […]

Monday’s column from CBS Chicago … (CBS) A few weeks ago in the midst of Chicago’s wicked winter, I predicted that it would snow on Opening Day. I don’t know if I’ve ever been happier to be wrong. Although, I do know one thing that would be please me even more than today’s spring-like weather. […]

From the Saturday, March 29, editions of The Daily Journal (Kankakee, Ill.) and The Times (Ottawa, Ill.) … The WISCH LIST By Dave Wischnowsky They say that April showers bring May flowers. But apparently March blizzards do too. Or at least that’s the case this year in Chicago, as through April 6, Macy’s in the […]

My CBS Chicago column from March 27 … (CBS) Tell me, what came first, the chicken or the wins? At the University of Illinois, something along those cracked lines of the chicken-or-egg riddle is what has to be puzzling athletic director Mike Thomas this week as he announced a new initiative to double his department’s […]

My CBS Chicago column from March 25 … (CBS) Michigan has two, and they’re both in the Sweet 16. Ohio and Iowa have two apiece, and all of them heard their names called on Selection Sunday. Indiana also has two, and … well, perhaps they’re not the best example right now. Throughout the Midwest, several […]