The Bulls’ Secret Weapon: Tom Thibodeau
The coach, not D-Rose, can lead the Bulls to the promised land
Contributors: Jonathan Eig
Chicago Baseball Preview: The Most Dismal Season in 30 Years?
A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH: Our columnist argues that this could be Chicago’s worst season for baseball in three decades
Blackhawks Goalie Face-Off
THE ICEMEN COMETH: Corey Crawford has one of the loneliest jobs in sports. But now he’s got company: his backup and potential replacement, Ray Emery
Doak Ewing, Vintage Sports Film Collector
CELLULOID HERO: The Naperville man’s company, Rare Sportsfilms, specializes in rescuing and restoring old sports films. Want highlights of the 1953 Milwaukee Braves or the Cubs’ 1935 World Series? Doak’s got the goods
Lovie Smith on Keeping His Cool
THE QUIET MAN: Bears head coach Lovie Smith doesn’t shout or otherwise show emotion, which may be why Chicago fans haven’t warmed to him. But being the anti-Ditka has its advantages
Can Theo Epstein Deliver for the Cubs?
One of the brightest of baseball’s new breed of data-driven front-office execs, Theo Epstein is being hailed as the Cubs’ savior. But don’t order those World Series tickets just yet
Rosemont-based Riddell Seeks to Build a Safer Football Helmet
DAMAGE CONTROL: As evidence of the toll taken by head injuries in football continues to mount, the high-tech quest to create a better helmet advances, little by little, in the lab
Adam Greenberg Dreams of Making It Back to the Majors
UNBROKEN: Five years after a bean ball ended his big-league career on the first pitch of his first at-bat, the former Cub still yearns to fulfill his big-league dream
For the Chicago Comets, Blindness Is No Impediment to Tough Competition
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN: The players on the city’s beep baseball team have the bruises to prove their toughness.
Why I Run
MAKING STRIDES: Our man wonders why he endures the mental and physical grind of long-distance running. Then, one nasty spring day, in a stinging horizontal rain, the answer comes to him