ETHAN BLUMENTHAL

Well we all know what’s at stake, the human highlight reel, the guy who makes large men seem small, Thor if Thor could actually fly, the only person in history an inanimate object (the rim) is frightened of, if Jerome Bettis was the bus, he is a bigger and stronger bus...

The 2019 AFC and NFC championship games will be remembered for the quality of the games almost as much as they’ll be remembered for how outraged both losing teams were that they were robbed. I’m kidding of course: In 10 years, NO ONE will remember anything about these...

Unless you are just waking up from a coma, or the less likely scenario that you don’t care about football, you’ve probably seen Bears’ kicker Cody Parkey’s double doink heard ‘round the world last Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles. If you had been watching the Bea...

It’s all fun and games and until someone gets hurt and as LA Rams QB Jared Goff can attest, that injury doesn’t have to be physical. After a tough loss to the Chicago Bears on Sunday Night Football, Goff has experienced shakiness, intense nightmares and constant fear f...

Jacob Samuels looks like any other basketball player at his local Xsport Fitness on a Tuesday night in December, he’s a 5’ 9’, 170 lbs, 28 year old white male from Deerfield Illinois. While Samuels may look like his 9 other virtual clones in the pick-up basketball game...

Even as a reliever, Cub’s offseason acquisition Tyler Chatwood is still giving Cubs fans nightmares. On Wednesday against the Royals, Chatwood entered while the game was still within reach. That all changed rather quickly, or slowly depending on how you look at it. Cha...

It’s been a rough start to Yu Darvish’s Chicago Cubs career. He began by starting eight games with a 4.95 ERA and a 1-3 win-loss record which, as manager Joe Maddon put it, “Chatwood numbers.” Things only got worse when Darvish went on the DL on May 27th where he remai...

With the game tied at two in the top of the 4th, one out and runners on the corners for the Reds, Cubs’ pitching coach Jim Hickey made his way out to the mound to talk with his starting pitcher Kyle Hendricks. “The first step he took out of the dugout, I turned to Vott...

It’s a sad day for baseball fans everywhere as the Chicago Cubs’ legendary announcer, Pat Hughes, can no longer think for himself and istead can only speak in paid advertisements. In a game against the Minnesota Twins last week, Pat Hughes finally succumbed to the dise...

It’s NBA draft season which means it’s prime time for stories about hard work, phrases such as “high ceiling,” “stretch four,” and “chip on my shoulder” to be said until exhaustion, and for people in fancy suits to tell us who “drafted well” before anyone has any idea...