Mike Cox

While watching football last weekend, a commercial appeared advertising perfume for washing machines. The perfume was some kind of scented beads, likely filled with forever chemicals, you pour into the washer before starting. I thought washing clothes with Tide did that without help. It got me to thinking about the wonders of capitalism and how many useless things we now […]

Talise Romain crossed the finish line of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon in more than six hours, 26.2 miles after she started, with roughly 30

Growing up, Chandler Mack always wanted to be a sports figure. “My dad played Madden football video games when I was little, and I would use a TV remote for a microphone and interview him about his game,” he says. Chandler played football at Spring Valley but never made the varsity team. During those years, his dad pointed out that […]

A Virginia mother was arrested in June for allowing her five-year-old to walk from home to a duck pond less than a half-mile away in a gated community. The case went viral when the woman was found guilty last month. Karyann Parkinson was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, given a suspended sentence, and placed on Virginia’s […]

The Blackhawks Week That Was and Will Be, 10/22: Show, don’t tell ( SCH )

Chicago's fall foliage show is finally hitting its stride, with the Chicago Botanic Garden's senior director of horticulture pegging the third week

In October 2015, historic flooding devastated much of South Carolina. Tropical Storm Joaquin, although never making landfall in the Midlands, dumped 20 inches of water on the state after linking with another weather system. A total of 19 people died, more than 20,000 residents were displaced, and nearly 50 dams failed or were breached. At the height of the disaster, […]

RECAPS: Red Wings 4, Blackhawks 1 ( SCH ) ( Sun-Times ) ( Athletic )

A random thought fought through my wasted and calloused brain and produces the Shel Silverstein song,” You Call it Jogging.” The song was recorded