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Steve Greenberg

Sports Columnist

Steve Greenberg is a sports columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times.

Anderson talked smack, flipped bats and became the coolest thing about a Sox team seemingly headed for great things. Then it all went “poof.” In town with the Marlins, he discussed it on Thursday.
The very concept that a Bulls team frozen in borderline irrelevance, let alone a Hawks squad that’s even worse, could eventually give the top-seeded Celtics any sort of difficulty in a best-of-seven series is farcical.
Holtzman played 15 seasons in the majors from 1965 to 1979, beginning and ending his career with the Cubs.
Not to tell new Sox general manager Chris Getz how to do his job, but he probably should go out and find at least one superstar talent who actually can stay on the field. You know, just a thought.
After being fired for the first time in his career, Holtmann wanted to unplug from basketball. Instead, he plugged back in.
Also, we asked how excited you are to see the Bulls in the NBA’s play-in tournament. Let’s just say voters didn’t struggle to contain themselves.
The Big Ten’s national-title drought is nearing the quarter-century mark, but the conference has seen lots of elite teams since young Tom Izzo led the Spartans to the mountaintop. Here are the top 10.
March Madness finale is the very matchup a Sun-Times scribe predicted it would be. Wait a minute — did that genius really pick the Boilermakers over the Huskies?
Caitlin Clark and the Hawkeyes have the most buzz on the women’s side — yes, it’s because she’s awesome — but the Gamecocks have yet to lose a game all season.