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Staying Positive
Published 5/9/2008 by Angie Wiatrowski at Chicago Sports Review
... “It was almost too much fun,” he said of 2005. “You look at it now and if you don’t win the World Series every year or go to the playoffs, it’s (disappointing).” ...

Ten Years Later…
Published 5/15/2008 by Eli Kaberon at Chicago Sports Review
... 21%) or the fact that the Bulls never escaped the basement of the Central Division in his nearly three full seasons on the bench, but whatever it was, it ended the worst stretch of professional basketball the city has ever seen. Assistant Bill Berry was the interim coach for two games (0-2) before Krause hired former Bulls center Bill Cartwright to take over full time. If anybody could teach the two baby big men toughness, it would be the guy who dominated Patrick Ewing in the playoffs back-to-back seasons during the ...

Blaze Squeak By Rush
Published 5/27/2008 by Jerome Cusson at Chicago Sports Review
... games to insure home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. Their next opponent certainly won’t make it easy. ...

Beasley v Rose
Published 5/27/2008 by Eli Kaberon at Chicago Sports Review
... Making a trade also has its benefits. After each team was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs this year, both the Nuggets and Mavericks have been the focus of rumors about trades for their ...

The Fall of a Non-Dynasty
Published 5/30/2008 by David Lister at NationalSportsReview.com Master Site Feed
... Dynasties don’t fail to win back-to-back championships. Dynasties don’t lose in the second round of the playoffs three years between 2001 and 2006. Dynasties don’t go through their era of domination without having a historical season. ...

Dig on Doug, Dude
Published 5/30/2008 by Kolsky at NationalSportsReview.com Master Site Feed
... a decent record and a disappointing playoff loss in his second year, then followed that up with a slow first half the following season. As so often happens in those situations, the guillotine fell on the head of the coach, despite a team that featured Grant Hill supported by… approximately nobody. And with the Bulls, he took over a 30-52 team – albeit with a maturing and improving Michael Jordan – and turned them into 50-win team in a couple of years. He also advanced further in the playoffs in each year of his tenure, before ...

Rush Find a Way to Win, Again
Published 6/2/2008 by Jerome Cusson at NationalSportsReview.com Master Site Feed
... It wasn’t always pretty, and it was surely a question of whether they’d even pull this game off, but the Chicago Rush once again found a way to win a game they had no business winning. A 52-47 victory over the Kansas City Brigade puts the Rush within one victory or one San Jose Sabercats loss of homefield advantage throughout the playoffs. ...

MLB Report Cards
Published 6/2/2008 by Eli Kaberon at NationalSportsReview.com Master Site Feed
... Baseball report cards have less importance. With four more months and over 100 games left, teams and players have a chance to improve their grade and make the playoffs. But that doesn’t mean that it still isn’t interesting to sneak a peek at the report cards for the first third of the 2008 ...

The NBA Finals: And the Winner Is…
Published 6/5/2008 by D.K. Wilson at NationalSportsReview.com Master Site Feed
... Pau?… Los Angeles lost both regular season games to the Cees. But that was before the Gasol for Kwame, a draft choice or two and a prayer trade. LA was 35-20 B.P. (Before Pau) and 34-8 after, including the playoffs. ...

WS stands for White Sox and World Series – Coincidence?
Published 6/19/2008 by Matt Kolsky at Chicago Sports Review
... Does this guarantee the Sox a trip to the playoffs? Not at all. But it does make their road an awful lot easier. We all know that once the playoffs start, anything can happen – just ask the Rockies, even if they didn’t win the World Series. But looking at a team’s chances, their road to get to the playoffs is perhaps the most important thing, and the Cubs’ road will be significantly tougher than the Sox’s. ...

Rush Finally Clinch Top Seed
Published 6/23/2008 by Jerome Cusson at Chicago Sports Review
... With the victory, the Rush insure that the road to the Arena Bowl comes through Allstate Arena as long as the team advances. Their first game, a Divisional Round playoff game, will come on July 6 at 2:00 P.M. The following game would be July 13. For a day that started with so much doubt, it ended with a character win and more importantly, a chance to redeem themselves as the playoffs progress. ...

23 reasons that Derrick Rose was a good pick for the Bulls
Published 6/27/2008 by Eli Kaberon at Chicago Sports Review
... 21-He has played in big games, shown in reason number nine. But it’s an unusually rare quality in the NBA, and it can only help Rose if the Bulls make the playoffs. Players tend to get overwhelmed in their first ever game with something on the line, but considering that occurred for the newest Bull over four years ago, I’m guessing he is pretty comfortable right now. ...

Sky Eclipse the Sun
Published 7/19/2008 by Jerome Cusson at Chicago Sports Review
... Despite the Sky finally picking up their victory over the Sun, they have a long road ahead if they want to make the playoffs. First up for the Sky is a rematch with the Sun. Just 36 hours after Friday night’s game, these same two teams will meet in a Sunday matinee. The next home game for the Sky is against the Indiana Fever next Tuesday night. Coach Key has set a goal for his team before the month-long break for the ...