Mike Downey

Let me tell you what the Chicago Bulls have. They have the lovely LuvaBulls cheerleaders, the flabby Matadors cheerleaders, the IncrediBulls crowd-pleasers, the Bulls Brothers entertainers, the Bucket Boys drummers...

You wait and you wait for a World Series-winning team for which to be thankful. You wait and you wait, as do the starving fans of the Cubs (99 years...

Downey's Eleven: 1. It feels strange not to be upset with the White Sox when they trade a World Series hero and send another one to the bench. Because that...

In the second quarter, Cedric Benson carried the football for the Bears once. In the third quarter, he carried it six times. In the fourth quarter, he didn't carry it...

Barry Bonds won't go to jail. You can get that funny idea out of your mind right now. A trial for Bonds would have to be in California. No celebrity...

Rex Grossman passed for 514 yards against the Seattle Seahawks last season. He put 65 points on the board. He beat the defending NFC champs twice. "He essentially did whatever...

A number of things would qualify as a total shock to me: President Kucinich, for example. A Shakespeare-in-the-park festival featuring Jerry Seinfeld would be one. A rap song by Celine...

"Idiots!" They wouldn't let him be. They got in his face, until Adewale Ogunleye finally snapped back. Idiots, he called them. He demanded to know, "Why the hatred? Why do...

Technically, I am on strike. As a card-carrying member of the Writers Guild of America, I am unavailable to write a script for a Hollywood movie or a TV show....

I can't claim to know Al Davis well -- we did drive to Pete Rozelle's funeral together -- but about the only thing anyone in the NFL knows for sure...