Phil Rosenthal

This is obviously true, but the ads make each candidate's resistance seem more formidable.

Column: Chicago Bulls say good riddance to February, while sports fans welcome the madness of March In a blah February, the Chicago Bulls were winless, the U.S. women’s hockey team was slighted, Cactus League play began and no one could escape the saturation of political ads on TV. Thank go…

Trib's @pwsullivan.bsky.social ends his column with a question I've asked, too.
"While being deluged with campaign commercials before the March 17 primary, one thing sticks out: If all these local politicians stood up to ICE like their TV ads suggest, how did it get away with causing so much havoc?"

I was at a Survivor Marquesas food challenge that was actually very exciting in real time. But I also spent a night with the crew in Venice Beach during the second season of The Real World and the highlight was an extended argument over who should clean up after a dog that didn’t make it on TV.

Thinking there might be just a wee bit of apprehension among Iran’s national men’s soccer team about coming to the United States — home of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize winner — for scheduled World Cup matches in June.

Do you feel safer?
I don’t feel safer.

YouTube video by Neil Sedaka Neil Sedaka - Love Will Keep Us Together (In Concert: Neil Sedaka, April 26th, 1975)

#RIP Neil Sedaka

Hope the doomsayers up in arms Netflix was acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery are happy with how this is turning out.

Holiday - Goodman Theatre The official website for Goodman Theatre's 25/26 Season Production of Richard Greenberg's "Holiday" in Chicago.

Highly recommend the Goodman Theatre's "Holiday," directed by @robertfalls.bsky.social. Running through March 8.

New round of WGN-TV layoffs includes producer whose rough ICE detention went viral A second round of layoffs hit WGN-Ch. 9 this week, with three employees getting the ax Wednesday, including Debbie Brockman, the producer whose aggressive detainment by ICE agents in October became…

Nexstar isn’t just a White House lapdog, it’s destroying local news.

Maybe if FIFA gave the cartel leaders an award for good citizenship, things would calm down.

Who hires Lori Lightfoot for political analysis?

Despite winning one term as Chicago’s mayor, it turned out she wasn’t all that good at, you know, politics.

Nexstar isn’t just a White House lapdog, it’s destroying local news!

More major sports championships should include giving toys to the competitors in postgame ceremonies.

I was a kid then, but this brings back some very specific memories.

YouTube video by interfusor Fernwood 2 Night - S01E01 - Talk to a Jew

There are so many nuances in the acting and writing of this first episode of 1977's "Fernwood 2 Night," which I consider to be peak-Willard (and Martin Mull). So good. So ahead of its time.

White Sox win the first ABS challenge of spring training. Clearly, they’re going all the way.

Winter is almost over

Bucky Badger on ice with a hockey stick.

“Star Spangled Banner” time at the Olympics for women’s hockey.

They ought to play “On Wisconsin,” given how many current or former Badgers are on the US roster.

Of Notoriety: Don Knotts’ daughter Karen returns to Indiana roots for stage performance Karen Knotts arrives back in Northwest Indiana to headline a performance of her hit one-woman stage show “Tied Up In Knotts” on March 8.

Pet peeve: People throw the word "notoriety" around as if it were simply a synonym for "famous." It is in fact the state of being famous or well known for some bad quality or deed.

Which is not good, and rarely what is intended.

And that hasn't ever struck *anyone* as a bad thing?

Of Notoriety: Don Knotts’ daughter Karen returns to Indiana roots for stage performance Karen Knotts arrives back in Northwest Indiana to headline a performance of her hit one-woman stage show “Tied Up In Knotts” on March 8.

Pet peeve: People throw the word "notoriety" around as if it were simply a synonym for "famous." It is in fact the state of being famous or well known for some bad quality or deed.

Which is not good, and rarely what is intended.

That was a major plot point in “The Sting.”

If I’m reading this correctly about broadcasting on a delay, won’t that create even more issues for the already-troublesome bet-on-every-damn-pitch industry?

Really? Because some Nexstar person assured us this simply was not true. 🤔

Nexstar as a corporation sure seems determined lately to wreck its credibility as a reliable source of news and information on multiple fronts, which is sad because good people work for its stations.

Robert Duvall as Boo Radley in 1962’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” an underappreciated hero who proves autism is hardly new.

#RIP

Is the issue of reflected lights and glare on the basketball court an arena problem or a matter of a poorly placed camera?

Kramer: “What, you don't think I can, huh?”

Seinfeld: “Oh, no, it's not that I don't think you can. I know that you can't and I'm positive that you won't.”

Cover of the February 11, 2026, edition of The Cap Times in Madison, Wis.

Just checking in on an old home.

What a prince…