Chicago White Sox Trade Quentin, Get Two Pitchers

from the SRN wires CHICAGO – The Chicago White Sox have acquired right-handed pitcher Simon Castro and left-hander Pedro Hernandez from the San Diego Padres in exchange for outfielder Carlos Quentin. Castro, 23, combined to go 7-8 with a 5.63 ERA (72 ER/115.0 IP) and 94 strikeouts in 22 combined starts between Class AA San [...]

Weekend Sports Report – 12/31/2011

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with Les Grobstein, Steve Leventhal, and Alison Moran This is our final WSR show on YourSportsFan, because next week you will read about our new, improved website.  Anyways, today’s show is about the last week of the NFL regular season, the last week of 2011, and perhaps the last week of Mike Martz as Bears [...]

Five Chicago Bears Named to Pro Bowl

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from the SRN News wires LAKE FOREST, IL – The Chicago Bears had five players selected to the 2012 Pro Bowl this season: LB Lance Briggs, RB Matt Forté, ST Corey Graham, CB Charles Tillman and LB Brian Urlacher. The five Pro Bowl selections for the Bears are the most for the team since having [...]

Weekend Sports Report – 12/24/11

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with Les Grobstein, Steve Leventhal, and Alison Moran As the NFL season winds down, the Bears have their last important game, a continuation of the best rivalry in pro sports.  We do the regular round table, have a holiday audio treat for Packer Dave, a preview of the Bulls – Lakers X-Mas Day game, and [...]

Dorf on Sports – 12/21/11

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with Andy Dorf and Fred Wallin On this edition of Dorf on Sports Andy talks about some of the college Bowl games. He also talks about the NBA getting started and some of the Christmas Day games. The NFL is also a hot topic with teams fighting for playoff position. In addition, thoughts on Mayweather [...]

Chicago Bears’ Season Derails at Home Against Seattle

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It’s hard to picture which was a worse train wreck, the one that is central to the plot in the movie “Super 8″ which I watched Saturday night, or what however many of the 61,542 fans who chose to show up at Soldier Field witnessed on Sunday afternoon. Chicago gave up thirty-one unanswered points in [...]

WGA Moves 2013 Western Am to Alotian Club

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by Rory Spears When the Western Golf Association (WGA) announced in 2008 that the Western Amateur Championship was leaving the Point O’Woods CC in Michigan, it announced a rotation that included seven Chicago area clubs as tournament hosts through 2015. Last year the WGA then added another Chicago area club. The Lake Forest based Knollwood as the [...]

Weekend Sports Report – 12/17/11

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with Les Grobstein, Steve Leventhal, and Alison Moran A very lively discussion ensues over the cause/effect of the Bears loss at Denver.  Things went everywhere from there, even going so far as to include Popeye and Olive Oyl, and Alison as a would-be NFL kicker.  You get all that, plus the regular NFL round table [...]

Bulls Waive Bogans

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from the SRN wires The Chicago Bulls announced today that the team has waived guard Keith Bogans. Bogans (6-5, 215) started all 82 games for Chicago last season and posted averages of 4.4 ppg, 1.8 rpg, 1.2 apg in 17.8 mpg.  He also shot .404 from the field, .380 from downtown and .656 from the [...]

Dorf on Sports – 12/14/11

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with Fred Wallin and Andy Dorf On this edition of Dorf on Sports, Fred and Andy take a closer look at Tim Tebow and the success he is having. All the guy does is win, and people continue to say he can’t do it. We also talk about Chris Paul to LA but not to [...]