I went back to the Tribune Tower Sunday morning, for the first time since being axed. I had been invited to be a guest of Rick Kogan’s on his weekly WGN radio show, “Sunday Papers” and he asked me to come to the studio, which is inside the Tower. My husband Rick came with me…
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Excuse me if I drift off occasionally. I [po[a Ok K Sorry. You go away for seven weeks and the first day back is exhausting. Even if the first day back only lasts for about two hours.  And I don’t even know if “back” is the right word. But I am going to start writing…
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Great story in the latest issue of Sports Illustrated about college football players who discover after their playing careers are over, that they are seriously overweight. Most people would go right to the cover story on the Stanley Cup. Or the NBA Finals. Or even the feature on the 16-year-old baseball player they’re calling “Baseball’s…
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My new friend Tom e-mailed me the link to a newspaper column the other day, thinking I would enjoy it. I did not. The column was by a sportswriter for the Seattle Times, a very good writer named Jerry Brewer, who wrote about going back to his hometown to be inducted into his high school’s…
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The dream job. More than once over the last few weeks, I have been told that I had that. And I’m not always sure how to take it. I suggested to a female sportswriter friend that it seemed like it was maybe sexist. As in, “You should be grateful for having a job so seemingly…
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