For a perennial dark horse like Northwestern football to keep its cool in the Big Ten, it helps to have its offensive line setting the tone. During the Wildcats' 2015 training camp, right guard Shane Mertz took that approach literally when he was trying to get some shuteye at the team hotel in...
In a new interview, Chicago Bulls guard Dwyane Wade talked about how his family was torn up over the slaying of his cousin Nykea Aldridge and how presidential nominee Donald Trump's tweet about her death left a "bad taste" in his mouth. Aldridge, 32, was shot to death last Friday afternoon as she...
Michael Phelps has brought back his famous pre-race scowl for Jimmy Fallon. Television cameras caught the intense grimace on the swimmer's face at the Rio Olympics as he sat with his hood up and headphones on just before a race last month. Phelps made the face again during Thursday's "Tonight Show"...
Twenty-four years ago I was raped at gunpoint in the cold, dark backroom of the Payless shoe store where I was then working. Two years ago I signed on to a brilliant script called “The Birth of a Nation,” to play a woman who was raped. One month ago I was sent a story about Nate Parker, the very...
The rumor mill is in full swing for Apple’s impending iPhone announcement. The company’s phone releases have followed the same pattern since the release of the iPhone 3 in 2008: a new model one year, and a slightly modified version of that model — the “S” version — the following year. This year,...
The new naming rights deal for the publicly owned stadium where the White Sox play baseball is worth $25.1 million but will deliver no additional money to the team, documents associated with the agreement show. The White Sox will receive only the remaining value of the original 2003 agreement with...
Colin Kaepernick and San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid kneeled during the national anthem Thursday night, continuing the quarterback's preseason protest of American racial injustice and minority oppression. Kaepernick and Reid dropped to one knee while a naval officer sang "The Star-Spangled...
The call every family member dreads came June 28 just after Northern Illinois defensive tackle William Lee finished his workout. Immediately, the words from his brother on the other end of the phone back in Indianapolis weakened Lee's knees. The giant 6-foot-2, 304-pound man buckled, and then broke...
The Sky will make Friday a special day for one of its fans. Taliyah Jackson, 17, will sign a one-day contract, address reporters during a news conference and join players in the locker room and on the bench when the Chicago Sky play the Seattle Storm 7:30 p.m. at Allstate Arena. Jackson, who has...
To know me is to know I bleed orange and blue. Not only do I ride hard for my beloved Bears, but those are also the colors for the University of Illinois, my alma mater. So imagine my extreme surprise and utter excitement when the Illini announced in March that former Bears coach Lovie Smith had...
Chicago-based startup Üllo wants to take your wine back to its purest form. Now might be a good time to order those Olivia Pope wine glasses. The folks behind Üllo have designed a purifier that reduces sulfites, those artificial preservatives added to wine that result in bitterness beyond natural...
So there was Iman Shumpert sitting on a workout bench with fiancee Teyana Taylor leaning on his back, both of them oily and naked and Taylor in "cat face" and baby daughter Junie by their side as the family is surrounded by a flock of sheep at the end of Kanye West's moody "Fade" video. Couple that...
Baseball season is long, yes. It's also a great time of year to be a Chicago sports fan, when you have not one but two teams to cheer/curse out/make fun of/whatever's appropriate that day. Keep up with both the Cubs and White Sox all year right here.
The world is still hurting for the loss of Gene Wilder, who died at 83 from complications with Alzheimer's earlier this week, but now you can revisit happier times for just $5 at AMC Theaters. AMC River East will be showing 1971's "Blazing Saddles" and 1974's "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"...