Journalist since 1996 w/ bylines in NW Herald, Sun-Times, Tribune, Pioneer, Daily Herald, J&T Sports, FN Drive & more. Military raised. Proud dad. Former OF ⚾️.
Age 13: Glenview New Trier Pony League title game.
Age 25: North American Hardball Assn. title. Playoff MVP.
Age 41: Hit .308 w/ a .375 OBP in the Midwest Suburban League's top level.
Kids, NEVER quit doing what you LOVE This is NOT a brag. It's a post to encourage you ALL.
A 35-year punishment is long enough. It's time to reinstate Pete Rose. If we can elect known cheaters into the Hall of Fame, we can show mercy to a guy who wagered on his own team.
Fact is, I've NEVER seen someone play as hard as Charlie Hustle. I emulated his effort as a kid.
@NBA2KMyTEAM
50 bucks...for ONE card....you have to be the most shameless, greedy, video game company of all-time. Why anyone continues to support your product is beyond me. Does the NBA realize you actually harm the marketing of its product in a massive way?
I just want to take a moment to thank Baltimore Orioles
@Orioles
coach Einar Diaz for the kind gesture earlier this week toward my son. That baseball you gave him sparked something incredibly positive in him. You never know when one kind gesture can impact a kid in a huge way. =)
@NYPost_Berman
Tanking intentionally to prove a point, while publicly blaming Brunson's parents for not resigning him days earlier, is the opposite of brilliant. It's childish and the exact opposite of professional behavior ... and he should be embarrassed by his own conduct this week.
To all the teachers out there who are worried or have anxiety toward the upcoming school year...thank you for all you do. You're caught in the crossfire of these pandemic debates as sidenotes, and that is wrong. You all have my utmost respect and support.
@espn
Forget what anyone's opinion on heckling is. That's not the point. The point is, we live in a largely classless America in 2022. Kids are being raised without respect for others because they sit on devices all day away from people and face minimal consequences for their choices.
@NBA_NewYork
If that's the case, then the NBA has no business calling fouls after follow through when someone makes contact with a 3-point shooter. Yet they do.
If sports get canceled, society can look itself in the mirror for blame, not the governor or IHSA, who want people safe. Every mask not worn properly. Every person who thought rules were optional, even once. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, as they say.
@NBA_NewYork
Yes, about damn time this team sends the league a message. Defenders are abusing him and getting away with it constantly. I'm sick of watching officials just ignore contact on his drives to the basket nonstop. He's right, it's out of control. Good for him for speaking up.
When you go to your job tomorrow, are you gonna get cussed out over a mistake, death threats if you mess up or be told to kill yourself? Yeah it sucks. But it's a frigging football game. It's okay to be critical. But there are lines way too many people here are crossing.
#Parkey
@ronriley100
@WhitlockJason
If that were the case, he literally would not be walking around still. Good lord, please just stop. Every day, they do countless autopsies. Guess how many credible coroners are coming forward to back up your ridiculous claim to mainstream news sources? None. Absolutely none.
Was just notified that I will be winning an Illinois Press Association award of some kind, for a third different decade, this June. I'm humbled and speechless. Shining light on the hard work you kids do is a blessing I never take for granted. You all help make it possible. 🙏💗
@NBA2K_MyTEAM
You've now shared more old codes than new ones this year. I'm old enough to remember when this page posted new ones frequently every few days. It's a real bummer, just noting it as a longtime customer.
Awesome postgame moment. Palatine waits in the locker room after the game, huddled around a cellphone watching Conant beat Fremd in OT.
The result is a MSL West title for
@palatinebball
. Congrats fellas.
UN-BE-LIEVABLE!
@BGBisonSoftball
wins the MSL title on a 3-run walkoff home run by Bison 3B Hannah Hull.
Buffalo Grove 7, Barrington 5, FINAL. Absolute magic here at Buffalo Grove High School. She's also the school's all-time career HR leader.
Marian Central doing something really classy. It's their senior night, but not only are they honoring their own players. The Hurricane players are greeting Crystal Lake South's seniors as well, with flowers, and honoring them. Never seen that done. Great display of sportsmanship.
@707tothe775
@FatherOf4Lunas
Verbally abusing a tiny child isn't an opinion, sir. I was raised in the 70s and 80s and back then it wasn't ok to treat a small child this way either no matter what anyone told you.
I would like to personally thank the doctors and nurses from Advocate Condell, and the paramedics, for saving my father's life last night.
He's been in rough shape for a while, but they have him stable and alert in the hospital currently.
Thanks for all the support. 🙏❤
I'm at Buffalo Grove H.S. for an open house, where they're unveiling drawings and renderings showing what the school's new athletic fields will look like. Here's a sneak preview.
Terrible.
@TheBigHurt_35
actually gives valuable insight every time I see him on TV that is relevant and teaches people things. More people should listen to the things Frank talks about. He's possibly the best right-handed hitter who's ever lived...and yes, it's a valid argument.
@Suntimes
So staging a hate crime hoax wasn't a crime now suddenly?
Just report the news. Stop interjecting opinion into headlines, particularly after a guilty verdict.
It's embarrassing. It really is. And it causes our profession to lose yet more credibility for no reason at all.
@Bo_Wulf
Outstanding work, sir. Completely changes the narrative of the ending of the game, and almost everyone has yet to get this part of the story but you.
Richmond-Burton assistant coach/defensive coordinator Steve Wood was the first coach I ever interviewed for a high school football story. Today, he and his two sons, Dalton and Brock, who both play for R-B, too, are all state champions. Congrats to the Wood family.
@670TheScore
@dan_bernstein
He regularly went on 5 to 10 minute rambling that had zero to do with games. And his constant attempts to make even the most routine plays sound like Game 7 of the World Series was a habit he's never grown out of. Great guy, bad PR move, but not the world's best broadcaster.
Fans who attended today's Class 3A Grayslake Central Sectional baseball championship game should be proud. Two great teams, sure. But numerous people told me it was the biggest crowd they'd ever seen at a high school game. It sends a strong message to our kids. It was awesome.
@NWSLincolnIL
Is there a way to fix this,
@elonmusk
? Not being able to warn the public of imminent danger because of such a policy seems kinda irresponsible, respectfully.
How fitting that Huntley softball won a state title with the final pitch of the game being a strikeout. What
@briana_bower22
did in that circle this season as a sophomore is one of the most remarkable things I've ever seen at the high school level.
@Geography
@BenVerlander
The White Sox were the most complete, fundamentally sound baseball team in the postseason the past 30 years.
They smoked multiple HOF caliber pitchers in the World Series. 4 straight CGs by starters in ALCS.
Won without Frank Thomas. Led the division wire to wire. Brutal take.
Don't be this guy.
Comments like this get under my skin and get an instant block.
Imagine feeling the need to anonymously put a teenage kid down like this, after he has the biggest game offensively in FVC history.
And for the record, Whitewater is an excellent football school.
@GillianMcKeith
Because most people are now vaccinated. It's basic math. None of that changes the fact you are much less likely to die from it if you've had at least one shot.
McHenry
@McHenryBBB
wins its first regional title since 2012!
McHenry 65, Mundelein 46, FINAL, Class 4A Jacob's Regional title game.
Congrats Warriors and hats off to Mundelein on playing tough.
Here it is. I'm officially launching my softball blog. I don't have a graphic design degree, go easy on me.
First up: My story on
@briana_bower22
. Last time she walked off the field in a game that counts, she was a state champ.
That was 603 days ago.
@TracyBethHoeg
@MartyMakary
Perhaps, but that graph shows clear as day natural immunity in the study is far more protective when compared to those who have never been infected but vaccinated only, which appears to be the entire point of his post and said study. And the difference is striking, as well.
I freelance so I technically don't get a vote, but now that the season is over for all local teams, I have to express my opinion for
@liz_alsot
as a strong player of the year candidate in McHenry County based on what I've seen. I'm not sure anyone had the year she did, frankly.
They just called roughing the passer on Atlanta late in the 4th quarter on a sack that was the cleanest sack I've ever seen.
Good for the announcers for calling them out, too. Just brutal and inexcusable.
#Buccaneers
#Falcons
#NFL
#NFLSunday
Just had to transport my 73-year-old dad to the hospital in Libertyville. He was alert and speaking to paramedics when they took him. He's had issues for a while, so hoping they can stabilize him and get him back home eventually. Thanks everyone. 🙏❤
I've actually stayed here many times. It's not nearly as bad as he makes it sound. Has a nice restaurant attached. Has an outdoor pool. And last I looked was under $80 a night in February. Some nefarious things at times, but nothing too bad usually. I fish in Fort Pierce a lot.
@MLB
Also not gonna lie, seeing three pitch timers behind the plate counting down every single pitch takes all the relaxation out of the experience. But our society is one of demanding instant gratification. Baseball is now the poster child for our lack of patience as a culture.
Seeing confirmed reports that Cary-Grove pitcher Quinn Priester touched 95 MPH several times in his debut. Wow. He throws a really nice change-up too, which is the most underrated pitch in baseball these days, in my opinion.
Still in shock a pitcher had a 1-0 shutout with 24 strikeouts in a state softball title game today and didn't allow an earned run all season. That's just beyond absurd and something we may never see again.
100 percent debt free as of five minutes ago.
With an 801 credit score and a car that has been totally repaired, top to bottom, basically, what feels like 20 times.
I am going to buy a huge chocolate cake to celebrate the occasion today. You think I am joking. I am not.
Time flies. Met Brooke and her family when she was in 8th grade and I was scouting. Called my editor. Told him there was a small but strong 14-year-old belting hits off an 18-year-old SEC commit - and she was gonna be a star. 4 years later, she's a Penn St. commit who hits 💥🥎.
1. Tonight was one of the most difficult nights of my 27-year journalism career.
There is no playbook on how to react to watching a teenager suffer a very serious injury just feet in front of you.
Both schools and staff members handled the situation with class. 🙏
Lizzie Gray with the game winner in the 77th minute for
@clcgsoccer
on a rebound after she got robbed. Gorgeous goal sends the Tigers (18-3) to state for the first time ever!
Here's a photo from last night of
@RBHS_Football
and its offensive line that we didn't get to use, but I did get your names in my story, gentlemen. Figured it was time you all got your due for your hard work.
@MikeWexit
@Imamofpeace
Yeah because he actually had the courage to actimmediately and defend his own citizens from an imminent attack that was orchestrated and preplanned by the individual. You're just shocked somebody finally put their foot down and did something about it.
I was informed tonight that multiple Ivy League schools have begun showing interest in lefty Huntley volleyball sophomore Emma Konie. "She's becoming a heck of a volleyball player, and is ridiculously smart," Huntley coach Karen Naymola told me.
Imagine doing this in the last regular season AB of your varsity career, in your last home at-bat ever, to break a school record AND win the MSL title. You can't script stuff like this, folks!
UN-BE-LIEVABLE!
@BGBisonSoftball
wins the MSL title on a 3-run walkoff home run by Bison 3B Hannah Hull.
Buffalo Grove 7, Barrington 5, FINAL. Absolute magic here at Buffalo Grove High School. She's also the school's all-time career HR leader.
I know this won't mean a thing today. Or tomorrow.
But you just took a team to 11+ shutout innings in a state title game,
@SequoitSoftball
.
That's a generational experience and story for the grandkids. Perhaps the most noteworthy second place finish in Lake County history. 👏
@BCFan2021
@JReinerMD
There's a 0.02 percent death rate in those under age 50 for Delta in England, based on over 110,000 cases. That's 1 in 5,000. So when you mean it will "get most of the rest," if you mean the other 4,999 of 5,000 will survive it on average, then sure.
Barrington
@bhsfilliesbball
coach Babbi Barreiro is a class act. Sophie Swanson could easily have a triple-double by now, but with the Filles up 41 points in the 3rd quarter, she's got her on the bench so others can get playing time.
Marengo senior
@jlt08
loves softball. How much? So much that she turned down a Division-I offer to join a D-III school with a history of success. My story on a classy young lady whose stock is rising fast.
She also has a special request,
@NateWrightAD
.
Tiger Woods is one shot off the lead at age 42, heading to the final round. I've never been a fan of him as a person. But now I am rooting for him because of what he has apparently begun to overcome as a human being to get to this point tomorrow. That's the big story here, folks.
I was a little kid. I had just come out of surgery at the Naval hospital to have skin cancer removed from my right arm. I was terrified.
Dad had two Sox-Yankees tickets waiting in-hand when I woke up. An all-time epic parenting moment.
Why am I a Sox fan? That's why. ❤
Even though Marengo softball lost its supersectional today, that program is a dynasty in our area. Make no mistake about it. And every player that's been a part of that team for the past decade-plus is part of that dynasty. That program hangs banners and wins trophies.
@RJBAM3
@815thelo
@SportsCenter
For making demeaning, sexist jokes about a teenage girl who is a child? No thanks, dude. That's not funny at all. That's sickening.
A storybook moment!!
@hannah_hull44
blasts a 3 Run Walk-Off HR to come back from a 2 run deficit in the bottom of the 7th inning of the MSL Championship. You can't write these things! 🏆 A beautiful moment for the community of Buffalo Grove.
@BGBisonSoftball
@BGBisonAD