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Tiger Woods' Wife Is Hot, but Not So Much To Him Anymore

While the public reacted with shock and awe after discovering Tiger Woods cheated on his lovely wife Elin and destroyed his squeaky clean, almost boring image, I'm not surprised at all...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 1 day ago 4,408 reads 32 comments
Fire Chicago Bear Head Coach Lovie Smith...Now!

Watching the Chicago Bear debacle against Arizona today, despite the late comeback attempt against a team that already put this one in the victory column brings me to one conclusion—Lovie Smith should be fired right now...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 27 days ago 667 reads 35 comments
An Interview With Ernie Banks: CIRCA 2004

Perusing this site today, I happened upon a recent interview with Ernie Banks. I conducted an interview with him at Wrigley Field back in 2004. I thought fans of the team along with "Mr...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 2 months ago 30 reads 10 comments
Chicago: City of Losers

Can you imagine wanting something so bad that you would sell your soul to the devil just to get a taste of it, like the Cubs winning the World Series? What if your feelings were just as strong ...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 2 months ago 85 reads 6 comments
Cubs GM Jim Hendry: Part 3: The Ugly

We’ve just finished the bad and it wasn’t pretty, but this is just downright ugly. Here is the final chapter in the trilogy I have written about Jim Hendry’s term as General Manager of the Chicago Cubs...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 5 months ago 157 reads 3 comments
Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry Part 2: The Bad

When we last left our hero Jim Hendry, he was holding on for dear life as I was about to enter the bad phase of the trilogy. With a huge payroll over the past several years, Hendry has spent like a drunken sailor on shore leave...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 5 months ago 155 reads 11 comments
Cubs GM Jim Hendry: The Worst GM in Chicago: Part 1: The Good

Watching Nick Punto of the Twins bunt for a base hit with two outs to score a run in today’s Cub game exemplifies everything that is wrong with the Cubs and the way Cub GM Jim Hendry has constructed this team...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 5 months ago 185 reads 11 comments
Chicago Cubs' Scouting Director Tim Wilken Opens Up About the Organization

With the Cubs selecting Brett Jackson from Cal with their first pick, I thought it might be interesting to read an interview I did with Tim Wilken of the Cubs during the winter...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 5 months ago 216 reads 0 comments
Five Players To Start an NBA Team

Watching Derrick Rose dominate the Boston Celtics in his first career playoff game got me to thinking: Is Rose the best player on either team in this series? There’s really no one on the Bulls to compare...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 7 months ago 554 reads 83 comments
When Is a Strike a Strike or The Saga of Milton Bradley

Milton Bradley of the Chicago Cubs was ejected from a game the other day for arguing balls and strikes. The volatile Bradley was also handed down a two game suspension for making incidental contact with the umpire while arguing the call...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 7 months ago 152 reads 4 comments
The Curse Of The Chicago Cubs

Screaming from the headlines in Chicago on Monday morning, opening day for the beloved Cubs, was word of a dead goat hung from the Harry Caray statue outside Wrigley Field. It’s a replay of what also happened in 2007...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 7 months ago 299 reads 10 comments
Talking with Former Cub and Current Cincinnati Reds Manager Dusty Baker

You say the name Dusty Baker in Chicago, and you’re bound to get a reaction...and it’s probably not going to be a good one. Yet he had the Cubs just five outs away from the World Series, while Lou Piniella has yet to win one postseason game..

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 7 months ago 259 reads 1 comments
Baseball, Wrigley Field, and the Cubs: Need I Say More?

Posing the question about the greatest sports month of the year is right up my alley. It's such an easy question to answer for me, so I'm going to make you sweat it out a bit before I tell you...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 8 months ago 137 reads 3 comments
Without Derrick Rose, Would the Chicago Bulls Even Be in the NBA Playoff Hunt?

As the season winds down and the playoffs approach, it’s a good time to look back on the Chicago Bulls season and judge whether this has been a successful year. The first thing to look at is whether it’s even worth it to make the playoffs...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 8 months ago 302 reads 16 comments
The Day The Grinch Stole Baseball

With The Yankees signing of Mark Teixeira for $180 million for eight years, they completed their Christmas shopping spree...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 11 months ago 348 reads 24 comments
It's The Hall Of Shame If Santo Isn't In It

He sits by his locker; needle in hand, ready to inject himself. The room is empty, for he doesn’t want anyone to know what he is doing...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about 12 months ago 189 reads 4 comments
101 Is Not Just a Highway In California Anymore

Over a month and a half has passed since the Cubs quest for a World Series title in their 100th year went down in flames like a California wildfire...

Written by Darrell Horwitz about about 1 year ago 119 reads 1 comments

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Darrell Horwitz Article Archive

Tiger Woods' Wife Is Hot, but Not So Much To Him Anymore

Fire Chicago Bear Head Coach Lovie Smith...Now!

An Interview With Ernie Banks: CIRCA 2004

Chicago: City of Losers

Cubs GM Jim Hendry: Part 3: The Ugly

Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry Part 2: The Bad

Cubs GM Jim Hendry: The Worst GM in Chicago: Part 1: The Good

Chicago Cubs' Scouting Director Tim Wilken Opens Up About the Organization

Five Players To Start an NBA Team

When Is a Strike a Strike or The Saga of Milton Bradley

The Curse Of The Chicago Cubs

Talking with Former Cub and Current Cincinnati Reds Manager Dusty Baker

Baseball, Wrigley Field, and the Cubs: Need I Say More?

Without Derrick Rose, Would the Chicago Bulls Even Be in the NBA Playoff Hunt?

The Day The Grinch Stole Baseball

It's The Hall Of Shame If Santo Isn't In It

101 Is Not Just a Highway In California Anymore

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