The Dingers crew breaks down the recent Marlins and Mets series and takes a peak ahead to the series coming up against Cleveland and the Dodgers.
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Rivers Casino in Des Plaines will be the official casino of the Bears and BetRivers the team’s official sportsbook under the multiyear deal.
The Bears are 50-1 to win the Super Bowl — and they will help you place that bet.
In another sign of changing times, the Bears announced Tuesday they have agreed on a multiyear partnership that will make BetRivers the exclusive sportsbook of the Bears and Rivers Casino in Des Plaines the exclusive casino of the Bears.
“We are incredibly excited to announce BetRivers and Rivers Casino as our first multi-year exclusive partner in the Sportsbook and Casino categories,” Bears president Ted Phillips said in a statement. “We look forward to connecting with our fans in fun and unique ways through these avenues and couldn’t be prouder to be building this relationship with a hometown company.”
The Bears, like the NFL in general, have long resisted gambling-related connections. But the NFL has embraced gambling in recent years as public attitudes have changed. Last season, the Bears’ sponsorship agreement with online sportsbook PointsBet was their first ever sports betting partnership.
BetRivers and Rivers Casino will have in-stadium signage and “digital, social and print assets” as part of the deal, the Bears said in a press release.
For what it’s worth, Rivers Casino is owned by Churchill Downs Inc., which also owns Arlington Park. The Bears announced Thursday they have put in a bid to purchase the Arlington Park site in Arlington Heights, with the presumed intent of building a stadium there.
Which team will win the Cade Cunningham sweepstakes? We’ll find out Tuesday night.
The 2021 NBA Draft Lottery will be held at 7:30 p.m. CT on Tuesday night prior to the tip-off of Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals. All eyes will be on which team gets the No. 1 overall pick and the chance to select Oklahoma State’s Cade Cunningham, who’s widely expected to be taken first in the upcoming draft.
There are 14 teams with ping pong balls in the lottery, which will determine the order for the first four picks in the draft.
The Rockets, looking to rebuild after the James Harden era, hold the best odds with a 14% chance of going No. 1 and a 52.1% chance of landing in the top four. They need that pick to land in the top four, otherwise it will be conveyed to the Thunder as part of a pick swap resulting from the Russell Westbrook-Chris Paul trade.
At the other end of the spectrum, there’s the Warriors, who have just a 2.4% chance of moving into the top four. Here’s a full breakdown of the odds for all 14 teams.
The stakes will also be particularly high at the draft for the Bulls, who need their pick to fall in the top four otherwise it will be sent to the Magic as part of the Nikola Vucevic trade. There’s a 20.2% chance of that happening (including a 4.5% chance of moving up to No. 1), so it’s most likely that Orlando will end up getting that pick.
After the first four selections, the remainder of the draft order is determined by win-loss record and a series of tiebreakers. The 2021 NBA Draft will be held July 29 with coverage on ESPN and ABC.
Time: 7:30 p.m. CT
TV: ESPN
Live stream: Watch ESPN
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Earlier in the month, the Chicago Bears announced that they are going to pursue the property that used to be the Arlington International Racecourse in Arlinton Heights, Illinois. They currently play thier home games at Soldier Field in Chicago but they appear to be interested in moving. Soldier Field has a lot of great history but it severely lacks a lot of modern advantages. The Bears would be really smart to do what they need to do in order to either move or get a better stadium in Chicago.
A lot of Bears fans and media like to talk about something called “Bear weather”. The idea suggests that the Bears have an advantage over thier opponents, especially those from warm climates, because of how cold it gets in the winter months. That idea, however, is wrong and doesn’t help the Bears in any way, shape, or form.
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From now until the day Justin Fields gets his first start, the most pressing topic will be about the Chicago Bears quarterback situation.
Enough already! Please, make the bloodletting stop. Over the last couple of weeks, it’s been heartbreak after heartbreak as yet another writer exits the Chicago Tribune.
As most of you know by now, among the horde of talented notables who took buyout offers from the Trib’s new owner, Alden Global Capital, are columnists Dahleen Glanton, Heidi Stevens, Eric Zorn, John Kass and Mary Schmich.
In full disclosure, many of the greats had already left the building, including Barbara Brotman, Mark Caro, Monica Eng, Jimmy Greenfield, food critic Phil Vettel and architecture critic Blair Kamin.
No matter what happens next, the Chicago Tribune, which once billed itself as the “world’s greatest newspaper,” will be, well, lacking.
The paper will never be the same. Chicago will never be the same. Neither will journalism. Neither will I.
When I was growing up in the 1950s, the oldest of three siblings, we lived on the first floor of a three-flat in South Shore. We were, in retrospect, middle class–although it didn’t always feel that way after returning from our yearly Mother’s Day trek to Glencoe, hometown of our distant cousins.
At that point, we may not have achieved the American dream of owning a single-family home, but one thing we never did without was newspapers.
It was the glory days for newspapers, each one fat with advertisements, which helped pay the papers’ bills. We got four, count ’em, four newspapers delivered to our door. The Tribune and Sun-Times in the morning, The Daily News and the American in the afternoon.
I started reading newspapers for the comics, but by the time I was nine, I began devouring the rest of the paper. For me, newspapers became a connection to the world outside of our insulated neighborhood.
I must admit, I always searched out Ann Landers advice column first and even sent away for her brochure about how to overcome shyness, which, sadly, didn’t work.
Later, as a young advertising copywriter, I didn’t need a cup of java in the morning, but the day didn’t start out right if I didn’t get a chance to glance at my Trib. I loved the various feature sections–food, health, women– sections that came and went.
Although I liked writing print ads and TV commercials, coming up with, hopefully, bright ideas to market hair care products, food products, the Illinois State Lottery and more, I dreamed of being a journalist. Of writing for the Trib.
My bachelor’s degree was in education (another story for another time), but I had no formal training in journalism. That’s zero. Zilch. Nada.
What I did do was read the Tribune news stories and opinion columns assiduously.
I studied the work of the news reporters, the feature writers, the columnists, especially, especially, Mary Schmich, whose column had long since replaced Ann Landers, as my go-to-first in the paper.
I learned from her. I was inspired by her. Her wisdom, wit, insight, humility, her ability to tell a story simply, graciously, intelligently, unpretentiously.
Her raw honesty, especially when it came to her family. I was awestruck that she could hit it out of the park most every day.
Some 25 years ago, I got to see my dream realized. When my first feature story appeared in the paper– “By Judy Marcus, Special to the Tribune,” my freelancer byline read back then, I literally jumped up and down for joy.
Thanks to studying the work of the Tribune greats (including Rick Kogan. Please don’t go, Rick!), I went on to write Trib stories about everything from recumbent bicycle riders to bakeries to families affected by Alzheimer’s disease.
My goal was always to write opinion pieces, and eventually, I got my wish (although there were many rejections in between). I have had the privilege to express my thoughts on an array of topics and see them printed in the op-ed pages of the Chicago Tribune.
To those staffers who have already left or are in the processing of saying sayonara to the the Trib, I want you to know this: You’ve informed me. Entertained me. Moved me to tears. You’ve influenced my life.
You taught me how to interview. How to write (in my own style, of course).
I thank you all, with a special shout-out to the unsung heroes, the former Trib editors: Marcia Lythcott, Maria Mooshil, Denise Joyce, Mary Jane Grandinetti, Lara Weber and others, for being my private mentors, who in spite of often being on deadline, were never too busy to help guide this freelancer.
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It’s June, and the Cubs are swooning. At the least, they’re wobbling into the teeth of a defining stretch. Urgency is upon us.
Would Cubs manager David Ross have yanked Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo or Jason Heyward from Monday night’s 4-0 loss to the Indians at Wrigley Field for making the same baserunning blunder — and it was a bad one — Javy Baez made?
I have my doubts, but file that under the timeless, perhaps pointless category of second-guessing the manager. Not just Ross. Any manager. It’s kind of a sport unto itself.
“I think that, yes, [I would have] if the circumstances were the same with anybody,” Ross said. “I’m not trying to set an example of Javy ever. The guy plays his butt off and brings it 99.9% of the time. So it’s not about setting an example of a star player that’s a big part of this team. That’s not it.”
Ross wasn’t wrong for pulling Baez four innings into a 1-0 game after the shortstop lost track of outs and — believing there were two instead of one — jogged around second base on a lazy fly ball, then, after realizing his mistake, failed to even feign an attempt to get back to first base to avoid being doubled off.
But Ross wasn’t right, either. Baez often plays at a harder, higher level than many big-leaguers can match on their best days. And that’s saying nothing of the keen awareness and insight he routinely displays — seeing things others don’t — which might seem to earn him some room for the occasional brain cramp or moment of frustrated letdown.
A decision like this one isn’t about wrong or right. It’s about why. As White Sox manager Tony La Russa said of himself this season: Ross is the guy with the office. Ross’ “why” is the one that counts.
Javy Baez has a blunder so bad that he gets benched by David Ross immediately pic.twitter.com/jHXk1rt6Gr
— MLB Errors (@mlberrors) June 22, 2021
And in this case, it’s June and the Cubs are swooning. Or threatening to swoon. What constitutes a swoon, anyway? They’ve lost six of eight heading into Tuesday night’s finale of a two-game series against the Indians, after which they leave for their longest, toughest road trip — 10 games, beginning with four at Dodger Stadium — of the season.
It could get ugly. The July 30 trade deadline waits for no one. It’s foolish for anyone to assume the Cubs — tied for first with the Brewers, whom they visit after the Dodgers — will kick into go-for-the-gusto mode if their struggles multiply.
Half a lifetime ago, in 1997, Ross, then Auburn’s catcher, hit a three-run, walk-off homer in a regional finals series against Florida State to help lift the Tigers to a rare appearance in the College World Series. Facing the mod of giddy teammates waiting for him at home plate was a lot more pleasant than facing the media after pulling Baez.
“I did not feel good to take Javy out of the game,” he said. “I definitely would agree with that statement. I never feel comfortable doing that at all. That’s a pit in my stomach and was in my stomach the entire game.”
That pit isn’t going anywhere. His team is wobbling into the teeth of a defining stretch.
The iconic Latin music superstars, led by Marco Antonio Solis, announced their reunion tour — “Una Historia Cantada” — earlier this month.
Newly reunited Los Bukis, already slated for a sold-out Sept. 4 show at Soldier Field, have added a second show to their Chicago engagement, on Sept. 5.
Tickets for the second show go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. Friday. Citi cardmembers have access to a special ticket presale starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Show times for both nights is 8 p.m.
The iconic Latin music superstars, led by Marco Antonio Solis, announced their reunion tour — “Una Historia Cantada” — earlier this month with three shows on the schedule including Los Angeles, Arlington, Texas, and Chicago. New shows (including a second Los Angeles date) have been announced for venues in Houston and San Antonio, Texas, and Oakland, California.
The band, which was formed in 1976, gained worldwide attention with its first single “Falso Amor” (“False love”). Their 1987 album “Me Volvi A Acordar De Ti” sold more than one million copies. The band, to date, boasts 16 studio albums, including its final studio release, “Por Amor a Mi Pueblo” (“For Love of My Town”) in 1995. They officially went their separate ways a year later.
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ACE 14U team will play New York team before White Sox play Yankees in Field of Dreams game
The kids are having their own dream game, New York vs. Chicago style, in the cornfields of Iowa.
Youth baseball teams from those cities will square off in an exhibition game called “A Dream Fulfilled” in Dyersville, Iowa on Aug. 11, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday.
The Chicago squad is a 14U team from the White Sox Amateur City Elite (ACE) Program. It will take on a team from the New York based DREAM program the day before the Sox play the Yankees in the Field of Dreams game adjacent to the site of where the Field of Dreams movie starring Kevin Costner was made.
The players and coaches will attend the Sox-Yankees game, set to be the first Major League game ever held in Iowa, at a temporary ballpark with a potential capacity of up to 8,000 fans, on the following night, Aug. 12.
The Sox created the ACE program in 2007 with the goal of providing high-quality baseball instruction and leadership/mentorship opportunities to young athletes from Chicago’s underserved and inner-city communities.
The youth game will be televised on FS1 at 5 p.m.
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