Chicago Sky star Candace Parker will cap off 2021 with another milestone after announcing that she’s expecting her second child and first with her wife, Anya Petrakova. Parker helped bring the first WNBA title to her hometown this year as the Sky beat …
Commentary: In the fight for equal treatment, some female soccer players emerge as graceful leaders for change
While researching a writing project, I began to pay closer attention to women’s soccer, including the U.S. women’s national team and the National Women’s Soccer League. Both organizations include world-class players, and these athletes are not immune t…
Stay in ‘Home Alone’ house this season through Airbnb and encounter booby traps, mac and cheese, and a tarantula
CHICAGO — First, it was the Pie House in Deerfield, then it was Scottie Pippen’s Highland Park home for the Summer Olympics. Now it’s the McCallisters’. An overnight stay at Winnketka’s “Home Alone” house will give up to four guests the chance to reliv…
Commentary: Need something more to worry about? Here comes space junk.
As if living in space weren’t difficult enough. The Russian military recently tested a direct-ascent antisatellite, or ASAT, missile on an old Soviet orbital, Cosmos 1408. The resulting cloud of debris — numbering 1,500 individual pieces so far — sent …
Chicago Red Stars fall short in NWSL championship game, losing 2-1 to the Washington Spirit
Another season ended in heartbreak for the Chicago Red Stars, who fell in the NWSL championship game in a 2-1 extra-time thriller Saturday. More than 10,000 fans filled Lynn Family Stadium in Louisville, Ky,. for the first NWSL championship match since…
Paul Sullivan: Small egos, high character. The Chicago Bulls may have found a new formula for NBA success with a roster full of players discarded by other teams.
Doc Rivers put NBA life in perspective before a game last month against the Chicago Bulls. “There are the 1 percenters and the 99 percenters,” the Philadelphia 76ers coach and Proviso East legend said. “The problem is all the 99 percenters want to be 1…
Paul Sullivan: LA connection isn’t lost on the Chicago Bulls, who play back-to-back games against the Clippers and Lakers the next 2 nights
It’s homecoming week for several players on the Chicago Bulls, who return to the City of Angels for back-to-back games against the Los Angeles Clippers and Lakers on Sunday and Monday. Lonzo Ball and Alex Caruso used to play for the Lakers and are look…
Chicago Bulls put together another dominant 4th quarter to beat Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets 118-95
CHICAGO — On a night Chicago’s focus was divided between the Bears and Bulls, Kevin Durant made his way to the West Side for a must-watch, early season game. It was a shame the Bears were playing a Monday night game in Pittsburgh, forcing fans to eithe…
Commentary: America needs a presidential panel to end child sex abuse
Just weeks into this year’s hockey season, Stan Bowman, general manager of the Chicago Blackhawks and the 2021 U.S. Olympic men’s hockey team, resigned in the wake of allegations that Hawks upper management failed to act on a player’s sexual assault cl…
Commentary: Is this fall downturn the end of COVID-19? Why we don’t know for sure
The Greek historian Herodotus lived through the plague of Athens, one of the world’s first great pandemics. He wrote, “Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.” So it is with COVID-19. In the U.S., we are currently in the middle of an aut…