White Sox Opening Day: 39 Degrees and Billion-Dollar Burgers

April 2, 2013 by Terry Keshner · 1 Comment

The Chicago White Sox opened the 2013 season on Monday by beating the Kansas City Royals, 1-0, at U. S. Cellular Field in front of an announced crowd of 39,000 people. In other words, there were one thousand people in the ballpark for every degree in the air. The high temperature in Chicago for the […]

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Bigger Than the Game: Bo, Boz, The Punky QB and How the ’80s Created the Modern Athlete

September 17, 2010 by Brandon Williams · Leave a Comment

In a span of 366 days, four players changed the landscape of sports as we know it. Without the use of a hot tub time machine, author Michael Weinreb takes us back to 1986 in Bigger Than the Game: Bo, Boz, The Punky QB and How the ’80s Created the Modern Athlete, a remarkable study […]

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