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Friday, January 14, 2022

CATHOLIC – CROSSOVER

De La Salle at Loyola, 7:00

Marmion at Leo, 7:00

Montini at St. Rita, 7:15

Providence at Brother Rice, 7:00

Providence-St. Mel at St. Laurence, 7:00

St. Francis de Sales at DePaul, 7:00

St. Ignatius at Mount Carmel, 7:00

CENTRAL SUBURBAN – NORTH

Maine West at Highland Park, 7:00

Niles North at Maine East, 7:00

Vernon Hills at Deerfield, 7:00

CENTRAL SUBURBAN – SOUTH

Glenbrook North at Niles West, 7:00

Glenbrook South at Evanston, 7:00

Maine South at New Trier, 7:00

CHICAGO PREP

Hope Academy at Christ the King, 7:00

Northtown at Ellison, 7:00

Walther Christian at Cristo Rey, 6:30

DU PAGE VALLEY

Metea Valley at Naperville Central, 7:00

EAST SUBURBAN CATHOLIC

Joliet Catholic at Nazareth, 7:00

Marist at St. Patrick, 7:00

Notre Dame at Marian Central, 7:00

St. Viator at Carmel, 7:00

FOX VALLEY

Burlington Central at McHenry, 7:30

Crystal Lake Central at Cary-Grove, 7:30

Hampshire at Crystal Lake South, 7:30

Huntley at Dundee-Crown, 7:30

Prairie Ridge at Jacobs, 7:30

ILLINOIS CENTRAL EIGHT

Lisle at Coal City, 6:45

Manteno at Herscher, 7:00

Peotone at Wilmington, 7:00

Reed-Custer at Streator, 6:45

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL

Lake Forest Acad-Blk at Francis Parker, PPD

Latin at North Shore, 6:00

University High at Elgin Academy, PPD

INTERSTATE EIGHT

LaSalle-Peru at Morris, 7:00

Ottawa at Plano, 7:00

Sandwich at Kaneland, 7:00

LAKE SHORE ATHLETIC

Waldorf at Lycee Francais, 5:30

LITTLE TEN

Hinckley-Big Rock at Earlville, 7:00

Indian Creek at Somonauk, 7:00

LaMoille at Serena. 7:00

Leland at Newark, 7:00

METRO PREP

Islamic Foundation at Horizon-McKinley, 5:00

METRO SUBURBAN – BLUE

Aurora Christian at Chicago Christian, 7:30

IC Catholic at Wheaton Academy, 7:30

Timothy Christian at Riverside-Brookfield, 7:00

METRO SUBURBAN – RED

Elmwood Park at Aurora Central, 6:30

Ridgewood at McNamara, 7:30

St. Edward at Westmont, 7:00

MID-SUBURBAN – EAST

Elk Grove at Wheeling, 7:30

Hersey at Buffalo Grove, 7:30

Rolling Meadows at Prospect, 7:30

MID-SUBURBAN – WEST

Conant at Barrington, 7:30

Hoffman Estates at Palatine, 7:30

Schaumburg at Fremd, 7:30

NORTH SUBURBAN

Lake Forest at Warren, 7:00

Libertyville at Stevenson, 7:00

Waukegan at Lake Zurich, 7:00

Zion-Benton at Mundelein, 1-19 PPD

NORTHEASTERN ATHLETIC

Harvest Christian at Mooseheart, PPD

PUBLIC LEAGUE RED-WEST / NORTH

Farragut at Schurz, 5:00

Lane at Lincoln Park, 5:00

Marshall at Clark, 5:00

North Lawndale at Westinghouse, 5:00

Young at Orr, PPD

PUBLIC LEAGUE WHITE-CENTRAL

King at Urban Prep-Englewood, 5:00

PUBLIC LEAGUE WHITE-NORTH

Mather at Northside, 5:00

Prosser at Lake View, 5:00

Senn at Sullivan, 5:00

Uplift at Taft, 7:00

Von Steuben at Foreman, 6:15

PUBLIC LEAGUE WHITE-WEST

Collins at Austin, 5:00

Jones at Clemente, 6:30

Legal Prep at Payton, 6:30

Perspectives-MSA at Wells, 5:00

Raby at Crane, 5:00

PUBLIC LEAGUE BLUE-NORTH

Chicago Math & Science at Amundsen, 5:00

Marine at Disney, 5:00

North Grand at Steinmetz, 5:00

Rickover at Chicago Academy, 5:00

Roosevelt st ASPIRA-Bus&Fin, 5:00

PUBLIC LEAGUE BLUE-WEST

Chicago Collegiate at Manley, 5:)0

Chicago Tech at Phoenix, 6:30

Juarez at Kelvyn Park, 6:30

Spry at Dpouglass, 5:00

RIVER VALLEY

Beecher at Momence, 7:00

Clifton Central at Grant Park, 7:00

Illinois Lutheran at Grace Christian, 7:00

St. Anne at Donovan, 7:00

Tri-Point at Gardner-So. Wilmington, 1-24 PPD

SOUTH SUBURBAN – BLUE

Bremen at Thornton Fr. North, 6:30

Hillcrest at Thornton Fr. South, PPD

Oak Forest at Tinley Park, 6:30

SOUTH SUBURBAN – RED

Richards at Eisenhower, 6:30

Shepard at Argo, 7:00

SOUTHLAND

Bloom at Rich, 7:30

Thornwood at Thornton, 6:30

SOUTHWEST PRAIRIE – CROSSOVER

Joliet West at Oswego East, 6:30

Plainfield Central at Yorkville, 6:30

Plainfield East at Minooka, 6:30

Plainfield South at Oswego, 6:30

Romeoville at Plainfield North, PPD

West Aurora at Joliet Central, 6:30

SOUTHWEST SUBURBAN – BLUE

Bolingbrook at Homewood-Flossmoor, 6:30

Sandburg at Lincoln-Way East, 6:30

SOUTHWEST SUBURBAN – CROSSOVER

Lockport at Bradley-Bourbonnais, 6:00

TRI-COUNTY

Midland at Roanoke-Benson, 7:00

Putnam County at Lowpoint-Washburn, 7:30

Seneca at Marquette, 7:30

Woodland at Dwight, PPD

UPSTATE EIGHT

East Aurora at Bartlett, 7:00

Elgin at South Elgin, 7:00

Fenton at Glenbard East, 7:00

Glenbard South at Larkin, 7:00

West Chicago at Streamwood, 7:00

WEST SUBURBAN – GOLD

Addison Trail at Hinsdale South, 7:30

Leyden at Willowbrook, 7:30

Morton at Proviso East, 6:00

WEST SUBURBAN – SILVER

Glenbard West at Oak Park-River Forest, 6:30

York at Downers Grove North, 7:30

NON CONFERENCE

Chesterton Holy Family at Trinity (Kankakee), 7:45

Christian Life at Faith Christian, 7:30

DRW at Fenwick, 6:00

Geneva at Belvidere North, 7:00

Hinsdale Central at St. Charles North, 7:15

Mendota at Rock Falls, 7:00

Noble Street at Holy Trinity, 7:00

Oregon at Amboy, 2-14 PPD

Proviso West at Downers Grove South, 7:00

Rauner at CPSA, 4:30

Richmond-Burton at Byron, 7:00

UC-Woodlawn at Holy Trinity, 5:00

Westlake Christian at Parkview Christian, 7:30

SPRINGFIELD (MO) – MISSOURI STATE

Young vs. Sierra Canyon (CA), 7:30

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Washington Wizards coach Wes Unseld Jr. has entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols, and assistant Pat Delany is taking over as acting head coach starting with Saturday night’s game against Portland.

The Wizards announced Unseld’s absence Friday.

Unseld is in his first season coaching the Wizards, who are 22-20 and have won three in a row. Delany said he spoke at length with Unseld on Friday morning, and that he’s feeling OK.

Delany said he still expects Unseld to provide feedback, even though he won’t be there physically. Delany has head-coaching experience from the G League.

Delany said star guard Bradley Beal is still in health and safety protocols after missing the last two games.

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An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and wounded three people inside a bowling alley in Blue Island when a drunken argument over using a restroom escalated into a fist fight, according to Cook County prosecutors.

After getting knocked to the floor, Kyjuan Tate, 27, grabbed his gun and held it against the head of the man he was fighting at the Burr Oak Bowl at 3030 W. 127th St. in Blue Island, prosecutors said.

Tate pulled the trigger once, the bullet grazing the man’s right ear and then traveling across the room and hitting a 52-year-old man in the chest, prosecutors said. The bullet exited the man’s back and lodged in the left hand of a 33-year-old manager of the bowling alley.

KyJuan Tate

Tate was ordered held on $2 million bail Friday, charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm.

Judge Luciano Penici also ordered that Tate be placed on electronic monitoring if he posts the $200,000 required for his release, according to court records. Tate was relieved of his police powers earlier this week.

An employee of the bowling alley said Tate had been with a party that was doing karaoke in a lounge area.

The fight started when a 46-year-old man was prevented from entering a men’s restroom by a “rude” and “visibly intoxicated” Tate because Tate’s sister was using the facilities, prosecutors said.

The two men argued, but the man walked away and went to the parking lot to warm up his car before trying to use the restroom again, prosecutors said.

Tate still wouldn’t let the man inside the bathroom and the two argued again. Tate lifted his sweater to show he had a holstered Glock handgun, prosecutors said.

Tate handed his gun to his sister and then was punched in the face by the other man, who swung at Tate four or five times, prosecutors said. The fight spilled into a lounge area and the man knocked Tate to the ground, prosecutors said.

As the man turned to walk away, Tate took the gun from his sister and aimed it at the man, who told officials he could feel the gun’s barrel “pressed up to his head behind his right ear” before Tate fired, prosecutors said.

Witnesses tried to prevent Tate from leaving, but he was seen on surveillance footage holding the gun as he forced his way into the parking lot as police arrived on scene, prosecutors said.

The man who was shot in the chest was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was stabilized 48 hours after the shooting and is unable to move his left arm, prosecutors said. The bullet was removed from the manager’s hand at the same hospital.

The 46-year-old man lost part of his ear and is suffering from hearing loss, prosecutors said.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability has said it is investigating the shooting along with the Blue Island Police Department.

Tate’s attorney could not be reached for comment.

Tate was disciplined for making “unprofessional and inappropriate” comments during LGBTQ training while he worked for the Cook County adult probation department, according to a 2019 transcript of a deposition in an unrelated lawsuit against the department.

Tate was suspended for 30 days, according to the transcript.

A law enforcement source said Tate was also involved in an incident during a graduation party with his police academy classmates. He got into an altercation with a patron at a restaurant, informed that person he was a cop and then made an officer in distress call over police radio.

The bowling alley’s liquor license was pulled amid the ongoing investigation into the shooting, the employee said.

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I recently performed my Baseball Writers’ Association of America duty by voting for the Hall of Fame. I checked the boxes next to the names of Mark Buehrle, Todd Helton, David Ortiz, Curt Schilling, Gary Sheffield and Billy Wagner.

I did not vote for Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens or Sammy Sosa because I believe they were massive users of performance-enhancing drugs. It probably wouldn’t take much, possibly less than one beer, to get me to say that they were big jerks and bad guys for tainting the game of baseball.

During a Jan. 4 appearance on 670 The Score, Pro Football Weekly editor Hub Arkush caused a national storm by saying he wouldn’t vote for Aaron Rodgers for the NFL Most Valuable Player award this season. He called the Packers quarterback “the biggest jerk in the league” and “a bad guy” for punishing his team and his fan base “the way he did.” He didn’t specifically mention Rodgers’ decision not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or Rodgers’ misleading answer to reporters about whether he had been vaccinated. But it was clear those were big reasons someone else would get Arkush’s vote.

My immediate thought was, “That’s not right.” The MVP award has nothing to do with whether a person is a villain. It has to do with how good a football player he is. I voted for Schilling for the Hall of Fame even though I despise some of his personal and political views. He was a great pitcher. The Hall is supposed to reward greatness.

I still don’t agree with Arkush’s stance on Rodgers, but the more I’ve thought about it, the more I’ve come to understand how someone might let feelings affect what would seem to be a simple analytical exercise. I would go further and say that it’s ridiculous to think emotion wouldn’t play a role in voting and that the reaction to Arkush’s planned snub of Rodgers – think of a mushroom cloud – was overwrought.

As long as humans are voting for awards – or anything — judgment will creep in. It doesn’t matter if the voter is a fan, a sportswriter, an athlete, a coach or a Hall of Famer. Human nature doesn’t care if you work in IT or hit a baseball for a living. It just wants to have its say. To expect a candidate’s personality, image or appearance not to be part of a voter’s calculus is silly.

All of us bring prejudices into any voting booth we enter. I would guess that a good number of Americans didn’t vote for the incumbent in the last presidential election because they found him to be an abhorrent human being. It wasn’t because they disagreed with him on the economy. It was because they thought he was a big jerk and a bad guy. Is dislike a good enough reason to vote for someone else? There’s nothing in federal voting laws that says it isn’t.

Why, then, do we hold Arkush to a different standard? Because a vote for the NFL MVP award is more important than a vote to decide who becomes president of the United States? If you answer “yes” to that question, take a good, hard look at yourself in your official Bears framed mirror. You’ve officially become unmoored.

Bonds, Clemens and Sosa destroyed the baseball record book and taught a generation of kids that cheating was the way to succeed, health concerns about PEDs be damned. Yet plenty of voters believe Bonds and Clemens deserve to be in the Hall of Fame. Those voters are not bothered a bit by the cheating. Everybody was using steroids at the time, they say. Steroids weren’t illegal in Major League Baseball during that era, they say. Those players saved the game when it was failing, they say.

Those are all judgments that confuse me. But the important word there is “judgments.” We humans have this bad habit of seeing things differently.

It’s a safe bet that Arkush won’t be the only MVP voter offended by Rodgers’ views on vaccines. The quarterback risked infecting teammates, coaches, friends, acquaintances and strangers by not being vaccinated. He had to sit out a game because of the league’s health protocols. All that could play a role in some voters’ eyes. None of it should be part of the MVP equation, but I know why those voters might be swayed negatively by Rodgers’ behavior: They’re human.

I have no idea whether Rodgers is a big jerk or a bad guy. I do think he believes he’s smarter than everyone else. He thought he could fool people by saying he was immunized against the coronavirus. And he did, for a while. One thing I know for sure: Being a guest host on “Jeopardy,” as Rodgers was, doesn’t mean you’re a genius. It means that a piece of paper you’re holding tells you that the Andes are the longest mountain range above sea level. Somewhere along the line, Rodgers confused reading answers with having superior intelligence.

And somewhere along the line, we confused voting with neatness. It’s not neat all. It’s messy.

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George McCaskey’s press conference was:
Inconsistent. He couldn’t seem to decide whether he was the tough, buck-stops-here type of owner or the aw-shucks-regular-guy who just so happens to own a team. He didn’t see anything “magical” about having a football czar, but basically just hired one in Bill Polian to help make two enormous decisions for the franchise.

What lesson should the Bears learn from the Ryan Pace-Matt Nagy pairing?
That they’re overly patient and lenient. It’s great that Pace and Nagy were nice guys and collaborated so seamlessly with each other, but it should’ve been obvious at least a year earlier that the combination wasn’t working. Even after that, the Bears should’ve done what any other team would’ve done in their position and fired both in November so they could begin the process of replacing them with no delay.

Rank the Bears’ coaching job against other NFL openings:
Fourth out of eight, behind the Jaguars, Raiders and Dolphins. Beyond the organizational concerns about the Bears, those three teams offer very enticing opportunities to win quickly. The Jaguars believe they have a franchise quarterback in Trevor Lawrence, tons of salary-cap space, the No. 1 pick in the draft and play in a manageable division. The Raiders are already a playoff team. The Dolphins went 9-8, are projected to have the most cap space in the NFL and have three first-round picks over the next two years.

Should the Bears prioritize an offensive coach?
No. That’s shortsighted. Hire a coach who knows what he’s doing and could hold the job for a decade. Period. Bill Belichick is a defensive genius, and the Patriots have been a top-10 scoring team in 19 of his 22 seasons. Hire the right coach and he’ll hire the right coordinators.

The head coach candidate that intrigues me is:
Brian Flores. There’s no way he should be available. He seemed to learn plenty from his 11 seasons with the Patriots and inherited a much more challenging situation with the Dolphins than what the Bears present. He made mistakes that he needs to learn from, but still went 19-14 over the last two seasons.

The general manager candidate that intrigues me is:
Omar Khan. The Bears think they’re the Steelers. They clearly aren’t, but Khan could teach them if they’re willing to listen. He has spent 21 years with the Steelers and had tremendous success. The best thing the Bears could do is hire him and do whatever he says, leaving him in charge of resetting their “culture” to build an organization that insists upon excellence in every aspect.

How long will it take for the Bears to be good enough to win a playoff game?
It’s looking like 2024 if things go well. The upcoming season is a sunk cost, then maybe there’s progress in 2023 and a chance to legitimately compete in 2024. The biggest factor in that won’t be the coach or general manager, though. That plan hinges largely on quarterback Justin Fields growing into a star.

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CLEVELAND — The Cavaliers are bringing back former guard Jos? Calder?n as a special adviser in their front office, the team announced Friday.

Calder?n played 14 seasons in the NBA, spending the 2017-18 campaign in Cleveland as the Cavs made their fourth straight trip to the Finals. The 40-year-old was with the Detroit Pistons in 2018-19.

After retiring, he worked with the National Basketball Players Association as an assistant to NBPA executive director Michele Roberts and a senior management team on union strategy and issues relevant to current players.

With the Cavs, Calder?n will assist Koby Altman, the team’s newly named president of basketball operations.

“We are thrilled to add someone of Jos? Calder?n’s background and experience to our front office,” said Altman, who received a contract extension this week. “His accomplishments as a basketball player and familiarity with our organization will be invaluable.

“We look forward to his insights and perspective on how we can continue moving this team forward and enhancing our efforts towards sustainable and long-term success here in Cleveland.”

The Cavs are 24-18 after winning just 22 games last season. They play in San Antonio on Friday.

Calder?n averaged 8.9 points and 5.8 assists in 895 career games. He played on four Olympic teams for Spain, winning two silver medals and a bronze.

He played six pro seasons in Spain before breaking in with Toronto in 2005. He spent eight seasons with the Raptors and also played for the Pistons, Mavericks, Lakers, Knicks and Hawks before signing a one-year deal with Cleveland.

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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s concert Thursday night featured what could be described as a typical all-Beethoven program, the kind heard each year in music halls across the country, but the results were anything but typical.

Although he does present world premieres and his share of off-beat repertoire, Riccardo Muti was primarily hired as music director to make the expected unexpected. And that is exactly what he did Thursday at Orchestra Hall in one of his finest conducting jobs since his appointment in 2010.

Even though the two main works on Thursday’s program — Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and No. 8 — are part of the bedrock of the symphonic repertoire and are familiar to regular orchestral goers, he managed to inject a sense of interpretative suspense, and compelled listeners to sit up and listen anew.

How did he do it? It is, of course, impossible, to fully explain the alchemy that goes into, dare we say, a great performance like this. On one hand, it means going back to the fundamentals and paying attention to the tiniest nuances when it comes to tempo, dynamics and articulation.

On the other hand, it’s a matter of artistically transcending those elements. And that’s where Muti, who turned 80 in July, draws on a lifetime of confronting, performing and living with this music.

Of course, no such performance would be possible without a first-rate orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony was in particularly fine form. There were highlights aplenty from the dark, resonant low strings in the Symphony No. 5 to the note-perfect French horns that lit up both symphonies, especially principal David Cooper and associate principal Daniel Gingrich in the third movement of the No. 8.

The playing was all the more impressive considering the musicians, like so many other workers, have had to undergo heightened COVID-19 testing protocols and must now wear masks during performances (all but the wind and brass sections). To its credit, the CSO , unlike such fellow arts organizations as the Joffrey Ballet or Lyric Opera of Chicago, has not had to cancel or postpone any performances this season, even with the recent onslaught of the omicron variant.

The evening’s big draw was the Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, with its emphatic opening eight-note motif that is regularly heard on television commercials and everywhere else. But this work has much more to offer than those first seconds, as this bold, full-bodied and, yes, sometimes suspenseful performance made abundantly clear, especially the big, resplendent finale with the glory of the CSO brass on view.

An argument could be made, though, that the highlight of this concert was the Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93, which might be slightly under-recognized if that can be said about any Beethoven symphony. The orchestra offered a nuanced, sensitive interpretation of this work that conveyed both its subtle complexities and inner contrasts.

This take was marked as much by what Muti did as what he didn’t do, an approach that was most evident in the second movement, which is marked allegretto, a tempo that is meant to be neither too fast nor too slow. In his hands, the music was appealingly sprightly.

Muti often did not beat time during this section, sometimes letting his right arm rest as his side, as he kind of nudged the playing along with a simple gesture or facial expression. He clearly trusted the musicians and didn’t want in any way to dampen the music’s innately light, free-flowing spirit.

This minimalist tack could be seen to a lesser degree elsewhere as well, including the first movement, in which Muti captured the genial feel of this section while assuring a sense of drive and momentum.

His most overt, involved conducting came in the final movement, with Muti imbuing this section with energy and pop, snappily executing its constant shifts in texture from galloping rhythms to gentle motifs and maximizing all the thrills it has to offer.

Overshadowed by the two symphonies was the evening’s opener, the “Coriolan” Overture, Op. 62. It was inspired by “Coriolanus,” a play by Beethoven’s friend, Heinrich von Collin, and it packs surprising drama into its compact eight minutes.

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CLEVELAND — The Cavaliers are bringing back former guard Jos? Calder?n as a special advisor in their front office, it was announced Friday.

Calder?n played 14 seasons in the NBA, spending the 2017-18 season in Cleveland as the Cavs made their fourth straight trip to the Finals. The 40-year-old was with the Detroit Pistons in 2018-19.

After retiring, he worked with the National Basketball Players Association as an assistant to NBPA executive director Michele Roberts and a senior management team on union strategy and issues relevant to current players.

With the Cavs, Calder?n will assist Koby Altman, the team’s newly named director of basketball operations.

“We are thrilled to add someone of Jos? Calder?n’s background and experience to our front office,” said Altman, who received a contract extension this week. “His accomplishments as a basketball player and familiarity with our organization will be invaluable.

“We look forward to his insights and perspective on how we can continue moving this team forward and enhancing our efforts towards sustainable and long-term success here in Cleveland.”

The Cavs are 24-18 after winning just 22 games last season. They play in San Antonio on Friday.

Calder?n averaged 8.9 points and 5.8 assists in 895 career games. He played on four Olympic teams for Spain, winning two silver medals and a bronze.

He played six pro seasons in Spain before breaking in with Toronto in 2005. He spent eight seasons with the Raptors and also played for the Pistons, Mavericks, Lakers, Knicks and Hawks before signing a one-year deal with Cleveland.

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