Author: staff

MLB TV’s blackout restrictions currently impede teams in areas where the cable service does not carry their respective regional sports network’s games. So for baseball fans in Des Moines, Iowa, the site of the Cubs’ Triple-A affiliate, they are prevented from watching Cubs, White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals and Milwaukee Brewers games on MLB TV. In-market fans are blacked out on the league’s streaming service, too.

The Bears had 32 players who became free agents Wednesday afternoon when the new league year began. The only player on that list to be re-signed is long snapper Patrick Scales, who joined the team in 2015. There are starting spots to fill all over the place and almost no depth in place with the departures of Mack, nose tackle Eddie Goldman and inside linebacker Danny Trevathan, who were released.

You suggested that Madison be “completely upfront” with her friends – OK, good start – then you counseled her to weasel out and blame her grandparents – the old fogies. Yikes! Young people who have “multiple large tattoos on their arms, chest and back” in all probability don’t care what their own grandparents think, let alone someone else’s. Stating as certainty that the bride’s grandparents “will be freaked out” by her friends’ body ink is disingenuous.

Also from her memoir: “I’ve been a bag girl in a grocery store, computer demonstrator, runway model, auto show commentator, disc jockey, newscaster, radio and TV talk show host, editorial spokesperson, mistress/master of ceremonies, broadcast administrator, AARP Illinois state president, commissioner on the Illinois Human Rights Commission, U.S. Army ambassador, successful fundraiser, adoption advocate, children’s champion and one of Chicago’s first African American females in the broadcast business.”

“You can say whatever you want about playing time today, but you don’t know what that looks like until you get to the season,” Heyward said. “See if there are injuries, see how things are flowing, the teams we’re playing against, the matchups they’re going to want to make — it’s just wise and I guess respectable to everyone in this situation to just wait and see and play it by ear.”