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On The Locker Room wall, we keep adding to our list. Here's what's on it so far, under the title "sports-related things we can do without."

10) anything to do with a rodeo
9) indoor pro lacrosse
8) the Chicago Sky (the Chicago skyline we can take, the hapless pro women's hoops franchise, we can leave)
7) any talk of bringing a minor, minor-league pro baseball franchise to Waukegan
6) The carnival midway game in which you have to shoot a regulation-size basketball through a rim the size of quarter.
5) indoor pro soccer
4) any positive talk about bringing the 2016 Olympics to Chicago
3) PGA Senior Tour golf
2) rhythmic swimming
1) People who refuse to come over to watch the Bears game at your place because you don't have a giant-screen, high-def. TV.

1) Cubs radio announcer and future non-Hall of Fame baseball player Ron Santo
2) Danica Patrick
3) Sox announcer Hawk Harrelson's stories about how he did it when he played, which was about 40 years ago. Has the game changed in 40 years, Hawk? Maybe a bit?
4) All talk about Brett Favre coming out of retirement
5) The Chicago team in the women's pro basketball league
6) All TV commercials for Web site godaddy.com (see No. 9 above)
7) Any talk that suggests that the pro soccer league the Fire plays in is a "major" league like the NBA or NFL.
8) Anybody who thinks the Bulls should draft anyone besides Derrick Rose
9) Three of the hosts at sports-talk radio station WSCR (670-AM)
10) Bulls/Sox owner Jerry Reinsdord

Best in boys meets
1) high jump
2) long jump
3) 100-meter dash
4) pole vault
5) 400-meter relay
Worst in boys meets
1) triple jump
2) shot put
3) 3,200 relay
4) 3,200 run
5) 1,600 relay
Best in girls meets
1) high jump
2) long jump
3) 100-meter dash
4) 400 relay
5) shot put
Worst in girls meets
1) Pole vault
2) 3,200 run
3) 3,200 relay
4) triple jump
5) 1,600 run

There were four reasons for the increased interest in the Hawks, a bad team that didn't even make the SIXTEEN-team playoffs:
1) The Bears stunk so we couldn't cheer for them.
2) The Bulls stunk so we couldn't cheer for them
3) The Fighting Illini basketball team stunk, so we couldn't cheer for them.
4) Northwestern's basketball team stunk, so we couldn't cheer for them.
In desperate need of hopping on someone -- anyone's -- bandwagon, the Hawks, a non-playoff team in their own right -- were the last team standing.
Besides, the Hawks glorified the return of Bobby Hull, the tarnished jet. Have you ever read the kind of husband/father he was? Why, on earth, would we welcome back with open arms someone like that. Time erases some things, but not the kind of stuff this "family" man did.

1) Chicago Bears
2) Chicago Cubs
3) Chicago Bulls
4) Chicago White Sox
5) Chicago Black Hawks
6) Chicago Wolves
7) Chicago Fire
8) Chicago Rush
9) Chicago Shamrocks
10) Chicago Sky

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