Opening Day started early for us as we arrived home at 2 am after flying back from LA to Chicago. As we drove by Wrigley we saw the rooftop owner we know – Tom Gramatis. After a short conversation with him about the upcoming season we parked the car and walked across the street to Murphy’s Bleachers to see if we could eat dinner and watch ESPN Radio setup for Mike and Mike in Morning.
Murphy’s was closed to the public so instead we took pictures of the two …

After spending 24 hours in Los Angeles to attend the Dodgers game at the LA Coliseum, the Ultimate Sports Wife and I made it back to Chicago in time for opening day. Check out the details here.

An event like this only comes around once in a lifetime – at least a lifetime that started after 1961. You’ll notice that no stadium appears on my stadium pages that stopped being used before 1976 (the year I was born). My opinion is that you cannot miss a stadium if you were not alive to see it. Thus, the LA Dodgers playing at the LA Coliseum has been brought back from the dead (or pre-birth).
Rarely does a team go back to play in a stadium they played in previously. …

As I arrived at the Allstate Arena, the parking lot was pretty full – much more than I expected. I have not been to the Allstate Arena since the Ultimate Sports Wife and I went to Wrestlemania XXII on April 2, 2006 – obviously a sold out event.
Now I cannot think of a more pathetic thing than what I am about to report. But, I saw guys chugging beers in the “tailgating area.” I did not even know tailgating at Allstate existed.
The cheapest ticket at the …

For the first time in six years, I am going to a Chicago Rush home game at the Allstate Arena. The Rush and the Chicago Storm (MISL) are the only Chicago teams’ home this evening. I am attending the Rush game because the league’s status is higher and the Allstate Arena is on my way home from work versus driving out to the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates.

Again, there was a lack of scalpers outside the Bulls game. It must be the low prices Bulls tickets are selling for now. I walked up to one of the box offices and a man had a $120 ticket available. He offered it for $60 but that was still too much for me. I probably would have paid $30 but never made the offer. After a couple minutes I asked another guy if he had an extra ticket. He had a $10 ticket and …