The NFC North Is The Chicago Bears To Lose.....

Few things are certain in the National Football League. Peyton Manning having a great season. A controversial call in which replay does not overturn. Roger Goodell suspending somebody.
One thing that we all do every season experts and fans alike is make predictions on who we believe will win the Super Bowl and how our local/favorite team will fare. With those predictions, certainly most of them will be wrong and that is what makes sports fun. The opportunity after a long NFL season to either puff out your chest and say "I told you so" or to harp on your friends and let them know how wrong their projections were.

Going into the 2010 Chicago Bears season after a winless pre-season with very little to be excited about, most experts and fans had this team finishing the year at a little better than .500 at best. Some choose to predict better and some predict worse of course, but without a doubt very few predicted the 4-1 start that the Bears are off to. Each week and each win the flaws seem magnified even more but the wins keep stacking up.

As I was finding it hard to believe in this Bears team and I believe that lady luck is indeed on their side in 2010, the NFC North is now theirs to lose.

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Brett Favre Must Face Maximum Punishment If Pictures Are Proven True....

Over the past couple of years there has been a disturbing trend that has developed in sports that as time goes on will become more and more a daily staple of sports conversation on radio, in print and on television. Time and time again the modern day athlete gets caught up in the "TMZ" type culture of the new media forums of today. From Big Ben allegedly forcing a woman to stay in his company to young shirtless superstars of the NHL caught on candid camera in a limo drinking the night after a tough loss.

I am not here to play moral police because I believe at one time or another in our lives we do something stupid that we totally regret and wish would have never happened. The difference between the dumb things we do and the dumb things athletes do is simply their star is larger and their stories make money. From Tiger Woods to Michael Jordan, athletes live in a different reality than the rest of the world and the their reality is what drives businesses like the ones I work for and the ones you listen/watch/read.

Deadspin.com known for breaking the TMZ side of sports reporting (hence why a TMZ Sports is in the works) published a two minute video including some alleged voicemails and some pictures NSFW of apparently Brett Favre. The NFL is investigating the matter in which Brett Favre allegedly sent this pictures to then New York Jets reporter Jenn Sterger. News of the photos have not only made the rounds of tabloid magazine and newspapers, but now national television and radio shows.

The independent investigation being done by the NFL is reportedly moving at a rapid pace. If indeed these pictures are of Brett Favre and he violates the NFL's personal conduct policy, he should be suspended for the remainder of the regular season.

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The Chicago Bears Luck Continues With Win In Carolina....

The NFL season is now five weeks old and we can finally start to weed out the contenders from the pretenders.

At least....we think so!

This has been a most unusual five weeks in the NFL season because almost everything we expected has turned upside down and made some of the best experts look like average NFL fans. Did anyone have the Kansas City Chiefs as the last undefeated team standing in the NFL? Did anyone have the Detroit Lions has the highest scoring offense in the NFC? Did anyone have the San Francisco 49ers with the same record as the Buffalo Bills after five weeks?

Probably the biggest shock of them all is the Chicago Bears are 4-1 and leading the NFC North over the highly powered Green Bay Packers. That and the Indianapolis Colts are only a game over .500 after five weeks, but let's concentrate on the Bears. Looking at the way the Bears have made it to their record however, do we still know exactly how good these Chicago Bears are yet?

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Why Expanded Replay Makes No Sense For Major League Baseball....

Every postseason baseball fans have the same debate all over again about how or should instant replay be instituted in Major League Baseball. Every postseason there is a fair/foul call, a questionable hit by pitch or a check swing that was/was not called that lights up the ire of today's baseball fan. Have we not realized by now that its the technology itself that could possibly ruin the game forever?

I never realized till now how much umpires have been the new marked man in sports. We the fans have turned our attention away from players who may be "cheating" the game itself and found ourselves a new enemy not wearing one of the 30 team uniforms of a major league team. Men who do not bat for power or average or run at lightning speeds to steal bases. Technology has made the umpires public enemy number one and it is simply not fair to force them out of a job. That is what "expanded" replay would do because once you expand, no matter the style of expansion, it will never be enough.

Using last nights examples in the Yankees/Twins game and the Rangers/Rays game, these are perfect examples of why "expanded" replay would do no good.

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Cubs Take A Step Backwards If Mike Quade Is Next Manager...

What a great time to be a baseball fan. 70 Degree weather outside, the leaves start to turn color and once again there is postseason baseball all day long today with no Chicago teams involved. All is well in the world. As exciting as the kick off of baseball's postseason is, there seems to be something missing and once again it is the disappointing fact that no Chicago team is involved.

Some would say if "we" have no horse in the race than why should "we" care. Some root on former players/managers who have made their way through the windy city to their current destination representing that team on the journey to the fall classic. Some just watch baseball because the constant barrage of Chicago Bears coverage gets sickening to a certain extent.

However there is a lot to do here at home in Chicago with both baseball franchises as one tries to decide to give it one more go-round for a shot at a title, and one looks for a new manager. Peter Gammons visited with Mully And Hanley back in early July and warned Cubs fans of the possibility of Mike Quade being successful that it would be tough not to give him the job. With a 24-13 record to finish the year helping spoil the postseason dreams of the upstart San Diego Padres at the end of the season, Mike Quade is indeed the top candidate right now to be manager of the Chicago Cubs in 2011.

He may be the leading candidate, but he cannot be the ultimate winner for the job.

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Juice Williams A Quarterback For The Chicago Bears??

As horrible as the Chicago Bears loss to the New York Giants was on Sunday night, the worst part about it could be yet to come. The Giants set a NFL record for most sacks in a half with nine beatings on Jay Cutler ultimately with the Bears' franchise quarterback sidelined for the remaining 30 minutes of the game with a concussion. Judging from what Lovie Smith said yesterday in his press conference with the assembled media, he expects Jay Cutler to be ok and ready to play by game time on Sunday in North Carolina.

What Bears fans should fear the most is if indeed if Jay Cutler is out for any significant period of time, you can simply consider the season over for the Chicago Bears. The Chicago Bears back up quarterback situation is easily one of the worst in the league. Comprised of 38 year old Todd Collins and 25 year old Caleb Hanie, they have combined for a total of three regular season starts in the last ten years. There is no Michael Vick, Mark Brunell, or even Bruce Gradkowski waiting in the wings when/if number six falls to injury.

Or is there......??

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LeBron James "Race Card" Nothing More Than Smart Business.....

In an interview with CNN's Soledad O'Brien, The self anointed "King" LeBron James said that race "played a factor" in the extreme backlash he has felt since "The Decision" aired on ESPN television on July 8th of this year. I am a 29 year old white American so my personal experience witnessing racism in my life is extremely limited. However I will not come out and say that racism does not exist in current day 21st century America. But on the way home from working another week of The Mully And Hanley Show on WSCR The Score, it finally dawned on me what LeBron truly wanted his "race" comments to mean and I sat back and laughed.

As I followed the "LeBron-A-Thon" throughout the seven days where LeBron was an official free agent welcoming teams to come to Cleveland to make their pitch for the two time NBA MVP, we all knew in the back of our minds that if he did not choose Cleveland "The King" would feel some sort of backlash. You can debate the extreme nature of the backlash he has faced since "taking his talents to Miami" if it would have been less harsh if he were to go to New Jersey, Chicago, New York, etc. For LeBron James to insert race into the reasoning why the backlash has been so severe shows his mis-understanding and youthful incompetence of exactly how he acted during the "LeBron-A-Thon" itself.

Or does it? Could this be just the latest in intelligent marketing by "The King" himself?

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