Steve Greenberg
Sports Columnist
Steve Greenberg is a sports columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Cubs can’t catch and pass the first-place Brewers — who just swept the powerhouse Rangers in Texas — if Hendricks falters.
Which name goes on the Illini’s QB1 line will speak volumes.
We also asked which Bears running back excites you most — Khalil Herbert, D’Onta Foreman or Roschon Johnson — and whether or not the Sky will make the WNBA playoffs.
If the Cubs really are any good, they should spend a 12-game stretch crushing the dregs of the two Central divisions.
Everybody keeps talking about run differential, but the bigger story is the first-place Brewers’ 24-10 record in one-run games.
Football on the screen is going to be a welcome sight to all who partake, but don’t expect the city to be gripped by Bears fever just yet.
Plus: Illinois’ unblockable Jer’Zhan Newton, transfer QBs all over the Big Ten and the college game’s top five coaches.
The Sox and leadership — a nebulous topic in sports to begin with — haven’t really jibed in a discernibly positive manner in a long time.
“It’s crazy to what extent people can go to just put something out there,” Grandal said. “It’s like they’re almost fishing for something.”