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Matt Calkins left the Seattle Times, long after I left the Chicago Sun-Times, because he doesn’t trust editors who control what he writes — an alarming condition in a nation that needs potent opinions
ESPN doesn’t care if he’s insanely overexposed, letting the megastar dominate NFL and college football coverage as he meets Donald Trump, records an album and could seek a higher office someday
The Crosstown Classic brought more applause for Pete Crow-Armstrong, but he was right in assessing bleachers badness as “nauseating” when a Midwestern city never seems to behave at big events
The stories are endless — in a national scandal, he seeks multiple billions to pay off loans — and a troubled sport can’t allow Walter to own the Dodgers as they try to win three consecutive titles
If baseball is in its final months before a long labor impasse, the magnetism of Crow-Armstrong should be front and center when a former Cubs season-ticket holder deals with a loan fraud scandal
A daffy day in NBA and ESPN history — Steve Ballmer is safe, I say — ended with Buss reminding her siblings that she’s keeping her 17.8-percent share of the franchise in the Kushner/Iger ownership era
It took almost a year to free the Clippers owner from salary-cap circumvention, and while a still-messy NBA carries on, what happens to a podcaster and a board that gave him a prestigious award?
Fans want to claim the Dodgers are crooks — of course, Mark Walter got started in Chicago — when in reality, the Crosstown Classic manages to bring rare drama this week when it usually means nothing
He still hasn’t said yes to a return, but once he agrees, he’ll realize he doesn’t run the show anymore when Garrett attacks with him and Stafford is the MVP on the NFL’s most complete team
In yet another slight from a commissioner who gets little right, women’s basketball is trying to use “The W” as a trademark application for apparel, which insults the Cubs and Washington Nationals
Watch them take political advantage as Dec. 1 approaches, with a federal investigation silencing the impact of a Dodgers boss whose outrageous spending has created three championships this decade
It’s time to sell the Chicago Bears, in the same week when a troubled Walter sold the Los Angeles Lakers, and it’s time for financial monsters to make a killer offer that the Halas family must accept
The coach who can’t avoid trouble is allowing a sophomore cornerback, DJ Pickett, to wear the same number as a Heisman Trophy winner, who has sent an attorney with a cease-and-desist order against LSU
