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Rollin' Down to Cicero
Windy City Rollers prep for the playoffs
Quick count: are there more stubbed-out cigarette butts outside Cicero Stadium, or more sleeve-tattoos inside? The gymnasium, full up on plastic cups of beer and sausage-and-cheese slices, with stands packed from floor to ceiling, has reached an uncomfortable temperature
(2008-04-22)
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In the Fuld
Outfielder Sam Fuld dives headfirst into the ivy
Sam Fuld knows a thing or two about numbers. The Chicago Cubs prospect can probably still count the days that have passed since graduating with an economics degree from Stanford. It's a unique experience that no doubt prepared him to weigh the balance of batting averages and fielding percentages; but in a different world, Fuld may have called his plays in front of a blackboard instead
(2008-03-18)
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The Turn of the Century
100 reasons why the Cubs will not be 100-year losers
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Cubs’ last World Series title. Herewith, a hundred reasons why the streak ends here
(2008-03-18)
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Bear Barren
Scoping out the Bears at Adam Archuleta’s birthday party
It certainly feels like a typical night a Y Bar on Ontario—young, clean-shaven twentysomethings gyrate their asses, throw napkins into the air, dance around gleaming bottles of Grey Goose. The partiers flirt aimlessly, armed with every kind of drink the bar has to offer, most of them unaware that the club is concealing a secret, and there's only one clue: orange and navy-blue balloons filled with helium stacked across the ceiling
(2007-11-27)
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The Perfect Game
Lakeview's Southport Lanes and its human pin-setters
From the outside, Southport Lanes might look like any other yuppie bar
on a street dotted with striped-wood designs in an effort to age new
buildings quickly and give this young burgeoning community a sense of
history. But Southport Lanes isn't just another new-old Irish bar
attempting through green shellac to make claims of a connection to the
Fatherland. It is the last handset bowling alley in Chicago, if not the
Midwest
(2007-04-10)
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Bad Bowling Bash
The Average Bowler's Bowling League loves beer, too
The music is loud--but some of the outfits are even louder. A bowler in
leopard-print briefs tosses his matching ball down the lane, while a
girl wearing fishnets as pants bowls a spare two lanes over. This scene
is typical of Fireside Bowl's Average Bowler's Bowling League, which
wrapped up this Sunday
(2007-03-13)
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Bowlshit
A superfan's road to defeat
11:44, 4thQ: Grossman throws pick, taken in for Colts TD. Face in
hands. Feel shame. Defeat. Anger. Depression.
(2007-02-06)
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Super Special
Where to watch the game and other musings about the big day
The parties, the stories, the food--the Bears are finally back to the
Bowl
(2007-01-30)
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Bear of a Life
Growing up after 1985
I can't remember the '85 championship season. I was 4. I have a vague
recollection of just the start of the game, sitting in my aunt's living
room, inches from the television, while the elders in my family cracked
beers and snacked, unworried, awaiting the inevitable domination. I
remember that Gary Fencik was my favorite player, and that I thought the
Fridge was funny, because, well, you know--he was fat
(2007-01-30)
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The Big Hurt
What if a Bears fan moved away?
My heart has continued to bleed blue and orange--even after I moved to
San Francisco more than two years ago
(2007-01-30)
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