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Rick Telander

Sports columnist

Rick Telander is a sports columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times.

Traveling abroad on a plane, going through customs, having her bags X-rayed and checked by foreign agents and drug-sniffing dogs no doubt brought back flashes of her 2022 arrest for “drug smuggling” in Moscow.
The Sox are the owners of the worst won-lost record in the game. At their current pace, they’re on track to finish 45-117. If they pick up their pace of losing just a bit, they might break the 1962 Mets’ record for the most defeats in the history of modern baseball.
People forgot about beheadings as the money flowed for entities far beyond pro golf. The Saudis have spent billions on soccer teams and Formula 1 racing, but also on law firms, corporations and other bastions of American thought and power.
One study says Chicago got an ‘‘economic impact of $109 million from the [2023] event . . . plus an estimated $24 million worth of publicity.’’ But at what cost?
While he played, it seemed that happiness was all that eluded Sandberg. He has been through the fire — with his health, as a manager who resigned from a failing Phillies team in 2015 — and he is a different person now.
In addition to being unbecoming, the treatment of Caitlin Clark ignores what she’s doing for the WNBA. Why despise the hand that feeds you?
Good Lord, what more do you need? Aren’t eyeballs the whole package, the goal? The U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team has won seven consecutive gold medals. Like, Clark will damage that?
Thirty-one teams have had a quarterback throw 4,000 yards in a season — every NFL team except for the Bears. With Williams, the Bears look to finally have their man.
The Basketball Hall of Famer and Grateful Dead superfan overcame many obstacles to become an unlikely broadcaster.