Every Tuesday before anyone else in my house wakes up, before the sun rises, before I’ve even had my daily red-eye, I sneak downstairs, fire up to my laptop and …
The thing about fighting Philadelphia’s Jaron Ennis is, he eats enough clean punches to make you think you have a chance. So when Eimantas Stanionis, clipped him with a counter …
Good news for book nerds, sportswriting fans, and other friends of my work in Chicago: You can now, finally, officially, head to a public library branch and borrow a copy …
Writing to invite you all to a book signing at Indigo Erin Mills on May 10. It’s a Saturday and I’ll be there till they kick me out, selling books, …
Three days after watching Kenshiro Teraji unify the flyweight title with a stunning, final round, come-from-behind TKO win over Seigo Yuri Akui, I’m still groggy. My voice has returned but …
I don’t have to remind the boxing hardcores to wake up well before dawn this Thursday. An ESPN+ card from Japan with three world title fights? Four of the world’s …
Last time we visited this topic, we discussed how racing at anything shorter than an official track and field distance represented a symbolic win for Tyreek Hill in his long-debated, …
Don’t pencil it in. Write it in your calendar in ink, first weekend in May. The author of your Next Favourite Book is coming to one of Canada’s most important …
First, some warnings about the long-discussed, recently-agreed-to showdown between Noah Lyles, who has won back-to-back global gold medals at 100 metres, and Tyreek Hill, who holds the highly subjective title …
If you answered “yes” to the question I posed in the headline, congrats because it’s confirmed: September 13, 2025, I’ll be at the South Side Lit Fest, which is exactly …