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CHICAGO — NBA All-Star weekend featured a new crossover 3-point contest Saturday between the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry and the New York Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu. Curry, a four-time NBA champion, holds the league’s record for most career 3-pointers made (3,642) and Ionescu has the WNBA record for most 3-pointers in a single season (128). Her 37 points out of a possible 40 — some shots are worth one point, others are two — in last season’s WNBA All-Star 3-point contest topped Curry’s shootout mark for a record across both leagues. It was truly a matchup of two of basketball’s best sh...
Chicago Tribune
The history of this nation is regrettably rife withstories of children being exploited, exhausted, injured and robbed of their educational potential by employers who saw them as little more than commodities. For all too brief a time, Florida leaders viewed that as a bad thing. They voted, often overwhelmingly, for laws that were even stronger than federal protections. Now, however, this state’s lawmakers appear eager to join other states that are abandoning those safeguards one by one. At the start of the 2024 legislative session, a quartet of bills that would tear gaping holes in Florida’s ch...
Orlando Sentinel
MESA, Ariz. — On the final day of the 2023 season, after the Chicago Cubs collapsed to blow a National League wild-card spot, Chairman Tom Ricketts told reporters in Milwaukee that manager David Ross was still “our guy.” “He’s a great manager, he creates a great clubhouse culture, the players love playing for him,” he said. A month later, Ross was fired and Brewers manager Craig Counsell was now “our guy,” signed for a record $40 million over five years. Addressing the media Monday at the Cubs spring training complex for the first time since Ross’s dismissal, Ricketts reiterated he “expected t...
Chicago Tribune
Next month, my bride, Elvira, and I will celebrate 45 years of marriage. Forgive me, but I’m pretty impressed with the longevity of our union. In this case, I make the rare exception of seeing no shame in my pride at this accomplishment. I feel this all the more so because my generation — baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964 — is increasingly getting divorced more than any other. Between 1990 and 2021, the rate of divorce among people age 65 and older tripled, growing more than any other age group, according to an analysis published in 2023 by Bowling Green State University’s National Cent...
Chicago Tribune
Back in 1998, Madeleine Albright, then the secretary of state, called the United States the “indispensable nation.” She meant that this country, armed with unmatchable force and influence, stood at the helm of a web of alliances and global organizations that guided world events. More than 50 years after the invention of nuclear weapons, the U.S. had presided over a Pax Americana that had kept the peace among the nuclear powers. Today, more than a quarter century later, are we still the indispensable nation? The answer is yes — but probably not for much longer. The era of Pax Americana is endin...
Chicago Tribune
“Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine or what his goals are now,” the pundit-poodle Tucker Carlson observed before his Feb. 6 interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “They’ve never heard his voice. That’s wrong.” What total claptrap. We’ve never been under any illusions about why Putin invaded Ukraine, his being a naked grab for power and control at the expense of a sovereign nation. Putin’s goals, any fool can see, are the subjugation of a proud and independent people with (for the record) a long history here in Chicago. This particular editorial board would be delight...
Chicago Tribune
The standardized test, badly battered in recent years as universities moved to more holistic admissions models during the COVID pandemic and in the wake of Supreme Court rulings upending race-conscious admissions, isn’t down for the count quite yet — and that’s a good thing for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. This month, Dartmouth became the first Ivy League school to resume requiring students to submit their SAT or ACT score, starting next year, moving away from a test-optional policy that, while well-intentioned, wasn’t having the desired effect. This isn’t just about a small cl...
New York Daily News
Six months ago, we suggested that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Stormy Daniels hush money criminal case against Donald Trump take a backseat to the federal and Georgia state election subversion cases and the federal pilfered document case. The argument was that the offenses were far greater in the other prosecutions, as would be the penalties should Trump be convicted. The other three also occurred when Trump was president, related directly to his abuse of his office, while the alleged illegal Stormy deception began when he was still a candidate. Leading with your strongest hand wa...
New York Daily News
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Chris Getz was only 2 years old when the Chicago White Sox came up with one of their most infamous marketing campaigns. The Sox had removed announcer Ken “Hawk” Harrelson from the broadcasting booth in 1986 and named him executive vice president in charge of baseball operations, giving him free rein to fix an organization that had stagnated after the “Winning Ugly” division championship season of 1983. “We sat down over the winter to think about what we had to sell, and what we had to sell was the Hawk,” assistant vice president for marketing Steve Schanwald told the Tribune’...
Chicago Tribune
Most readers of a certain age will remember immediately the wistful, lilting tune that conveys this lyric: “Last night I had the strangest dream/I ever dreamed before/I dreamed the world had all agreed/To put an end to war.” This song was written in 1950 by folk singer Ed McCurdy. It reflected the devastation of World War II, the developing nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union and the mounting tension in Korea, and it anticipated the incipient Vietnam War. In fact, “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream” was an unofficial anthem for an ambitious anti-war movement that...
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