OK, then, lets start with why this whole NCAA Tournament deal could work out very nicely for Illinois, the No. 3 seed in the South Region. In no particular order:They can score a lot on any opponent. The body of work for a team that ranked No. 1 in the country in offensive efficiency (per KenPom) for much of the season is not to be taken lightly. Theyd ...

LOS ANGELES Paul Thomas Andersons One Battle After Another was crowned best picture at the 98th Academy Awards, handing Hollywoods top honor to a comic, multi-generational American saga of political resistance.The ceremony Sunday, which also saw Michael B. Jordan win best actor and Sinners cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw make Oscar history as the ...

On yet another rainy day in March, 47 years after Morgan Park residents George Hendry and Pat Coakley started their own South Side Irish Parade, a crowd was once again waiting for the bagpipers and Irish dancers to march by.As it has since 1981, the parade stepped off from 103rd Street down Western Avenue to 115th Street despite intermittent sheets of rain ...

Buddy Guy took to Hollywoods biggest stage Sunday night with a star-studded lineup to bring a pivotal scene about the power of music in Sinners to life.Guy wore a black and white polka dot shirt under black leather overalls as he played the guitar alongside Miles Caton and Raphael Saadiq, who wrote the song with composer Ludwig Gransson.Misty Copeland, Eric ...

MESA, Ariz. Cubs right-hander Jameson Taillon's awful spring stayed that way Sunday, with a 10-run shelling from the Dodgers fraught with walks (four), homers (Mookie Betts and Jack Suwinski) and an array of Dodgers hits (eight) over 3 innings at Sloan Park.Taillon is tinkering with minor mechanical tweaks, but with the season starting in less than two ...

It has been a while since my NCAA Tournament bracket had the right champion. That was in 2018, when Villanova was a runaway train. Somehow, I whiffed on Loyola to the Final Four that year.In 2021, I had the correct final two, Gonzaga and Baylor, only in the wrong order. Same thing in 2024, when I picked Purdue over UConn. My title pick last year, Houston, ...

Illinois mens basketball team will enter the NCAA Tournament as the No. 3 seed in the South Region and play No. 14 seed Penn on Thursday in Greenville, South Carolina.The Illini, 24-8, have been a Top 25 team all season. They cracked the top 10 in November, got there again in late January and stayed there throughout February, topping out at No. 5. But ...

SURPRISE, Ariz. Its been a busy spring for White Sox third baseman Curtis Mead.He entered his first spring training with the White Sox, where he had to acclimate to new hitting coach Derek Shomon and play for Team Australia in the World Baseball Classic.It's been an eventful one, that's for sure, Mead said Sunday. I was really proud to go away and play for ...

The Chicago Public Schools inspector generals office has launched an investigation into an employee at a Norwood Park neighborhood high school.A staff member at William Howard Taft High School, 6530 W. Bryn Mawr Ave., has been accused of engaging inappropriately with students, according to a notice obtained by the Sun-Times. Taft Principal Ryan Glowacz sent ...

Without question the Bulls can save paper on playoff tickets at this point, and with 15 regular-season games left its looking like even the annual visit and dismissal from the Eastern Conference play-in tournament also known as the Bulls Invitational is all but out of reach.For Billy Donovan and his coaching staff, its about the little things. Those ...

SURPRISE, Ariz. Braden Montgomery proved he belonged this spring training.From the production he batted .348/.348/.652 to his defensive acumen, Montgomery showcased his talent that just needs some more sharpening."I thought he had an outstanding camp," manager Will Venable said of Montgomery. "We saw some of the defense, we saw the base running. Did a ...

MESA, Ariz. Craig Counsell wasnt about to throw shade on the World Baseball Classic, an intense and exciting event that fans and players have embraced. It seems to be good for baseball. The experience of playing in high stakes competitions has value for players.That said, the Cubs managers joy of watching his daughter win a state championship basketball ...

The Shannon Rovers Irish Pipe Band are new to the bagpipe scene, being only 100 years old this year.To put that in perspective, bagpipes are mentioned in the Bible, in Daniel, and were common throughout the ancient world. "When Rome was burning, Nero was not fiddling," said Noreen Boyle. "He was playing the pipes." Opinion bug ...

The Senators, led by German star forward Tim Stutzle, were a logical choice to participate in the first wave of the NHL's new campaign to grow hockey in Germany. Stutzle was born just 20 miles outside of Dusseldorf, where the Senators will face the Blackhawks in two regular-season games in December.But why were the Hawks, with no Germans, chosen as the ...

Joe Henricksen and Michael OBriens weekly breakdown of Illinois high school basketball.The season is complete. Mike and Joe discuss the IHSA state finals weekend in Champaign, talking about the games, the crowds and more.The podcast is on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, so please subscribe.

Severe storms and winds over 50 mph are blowing into the Chicago area.The National Weather Service warned that a "strong spring storm" is moving into the region Sunday and will stick around into Monday. The weather service issued a wind advisory for strong, southern winds as high as 50 to 65 mph from Sunday afternoon through the evening.Showers and ...

Two people were killed in a two-vehicle collision on the Kennedy Expressway in the West Loop early Sunday, according to the Illinois State Police.Around 1:45 a.m., a southbound car collided with a car stopped in the southbound lanes of I-90 near Randolph Street around 1:45 a.m., state police reported.In all, five people were involved. The driver of the ...

While Marist celebrated its long-awaited state championship on Saturday night, messages from readers started to flood in. A sample:Marist was better but what a weird and horrible game.The pace of play was painful.28 points?Bull crap stall offense. Just play ball.The Class 4A championship game was a rough watch for the neutral fan. Marist beat Benet 44-28. ...

A 22-year-old man was shot in the abdomen early Sunday in the South Shore neighborhood, authorities said.The man was in the 1900 block of East 72nd Place around 4 a.m. when he suffered the gunshot wound. He took himself to Advocate Trinity Hospital where he later died, Chicago police said.No one has been arrested. No other details were immediately, but ...

An on-duty Chicago police sergeant was shot in the Pullman neighborhood late Saturday, Chicago police said.The sergeant driving in a marked police car was in the 11200 block of South Corliss Avenue around 11 p.m. when they were shot in the leg, according to police. That location is about a block south of the Calumet District CPD station.The sergeant drove ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. With over a week left in spring training, the competition for the starting rotation is winding down.Manager Will Venable said Saturday that left-hander Sean Newcomb would be starting the season in the bullpen. At his introductory press conference, Newcomb said he signed his one-year deal with the Sox to get the ball as much as possible, and ...

A 17-year-old boy was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting Saturday night in the North Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.Sergio A. Agon Mejia was in his car traveling in the 6100 block of North Kimball Avenue around 10:30 p.m. when someone in a red car shot him, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office. He suffered gunshot ...

The weekends St. Patricks Day festivities drew diverse crowds into the city ahead of the holiday on Tuesday.Among them was a bar crawl at Williams Inn Pizza & Sports Bar on the Near South Side on Saturday. Black revelers clad in green poured into the Black-owned watering hole, which played hip-hop classics and offered beer from the Black-owned Moors Brewing ...

DEAR ABBY: My parents have always been wonderful and supportive. As they grow older, it's hard to see them deal with the aches and pains that come with age especially my mother, who has rheumatoid arthritis. In an effort to ease their burden, I pay for a monthly cleaning service to help them maintain their large home. While I'm happy to support them, I am ...

Chicago developer Scott Goodman, who leased office space in the West Loop for years from the Chicago Transit Authority, is once again deep in debt to the agency, according to recently obtained CTA records.The documents show one of his businesses is more than $1 million behind on rent payments and the transit agency contends he owes another $11 million or ...