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Rick Morrissey has been a sports columnist at the Sun-Times since December 2009. Before that, he was a columnist at the Chicago Tribune for nine …

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Bulls show grit, defensive chops but fail to score many style points

The United Center was all abuzz Tuesday night as the weary Bulls fought to remain among the living. It shouldn’t have been easy to watch for anyone, but when the Fan-O-Meter starts encouraging the crowd, Omer Asik dunks and the 76ers can’t hit an open …

Bulls-76ers a sight for eyesores

PHILADELPHIA — You know how when two teams are so evenly matched that you don’t care about the low quality of the basketball but only about the raging competitiveness? Yeah, well, this wasn’t like that. This was bad basketball, and I’m concerned that 20 years …

Letting Joakim Noah return after ankle injury was right move in pivotal situation

PHILADELPHIA — Nobody looks good on crutches. A 6-11 person on crutches looks like a construction crane on a windy day. The unfortunate sight of Joakim Noah clack-clack-clacking his way down a hotel hallway greeted onlookers Saturday afternoon. He’s about as ready to play basketball …

Bulls missing Derrick Rose — and their shots

PHILADELPHIA — Forget about the regular season and all the success the Bulls had when Derrick Rose was injured. Doesn’t matter. These are the playoffs, and this is big-boy basketball. The Bulls can play defense as well as anybody, but without Rose in the games …

Bulls unfit to be tied

He limped onto the court with a look on his face that suggested he had just put down his dog after 15 years of friendship. He was there to deliver the game ball, a ceremonial exercise usually reserved for celebrities or sponsors or anybody else …

Down after Derrick Rose’s injury? Here are a few reasons to cheer up, Bulls fans

Judging by the emails I’ve received the last few days, there are Bulls fans out there contemplating (their) suicide and (my) murder. If success is the goal, I’d suggest they not proceed in that order. This is what Derrick Rose’s knee injury has wrought, a …

Bulls must rely on bench, but they should’ve done that in Game 1

RICK MORRISSEY: Funny how everyone is looking to the Bench Mob now for comfort, the same Bench Mob that Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau didn’t believe in enough toward the end of Game 1.

Why knee, why now? There’s no good reason why Derrick Rose was in the game at the end

Derrick Rose was clutching his left knee in pain, and the question that a lot of people had been asking themselves in the minutes before the injury occurred suddenly became a plaintive, frustrated cry: Why? Why in the world was the Bulls’ superstar still playing …

Now is not the time for Bears to get defensive in NFL draft

RICK MORRISSEY: In a dream, I see NFL  commissioner Roger Goodell standing at a podium and saying, ‘‘With the 19th pick in the draft, the Chicago Bears take defensive end . . . ’’ What I’m taking away from the dream is the distinct possibility the Bears will make a draft-day mistake by choosing a defensive player.

Morrissey: Hawks can’t get anything past Coyotes’ Mike Smith

As the game wore on and the Blackhawks piled up shot after empty shot Monday night, one bizarre possibility became more and more likely: The other team, the team that could manage only two shots on goal in the first period, was going to win …

  • Derrick Rose’s wildest dream: Just getting some air

    “It gets on my nerves that I just can’t go out. It’s just boundaries now. People are like, ‘You can’t go here, you can’t go there, you got to let that person know where you’re going.’ It’s just weird. I’m never alone. Ever.” —Derrick Rose …Read More

  • The irresponsible comments of Coyotes GM Don Maloney represent what’s wrong with the NHL

    I’d like to dismiss Don Maloney’s recent comments as the ramblings of someone caught in the grip of senility, but he’s only 53. That leaves early onset stupidity as the logical explanation. I believe it hit when he was 3. “You would think Raffi murdered a …Read More

  • Blackhawks hit hard by NHL’s joke of a justice system

    RICK MORRISSEY: If Andrew Shaw’s hit on Phoenix goalie Mike Smith was worth a three-game suspension, what does the Coyotes’ Raffi Torres get for sending Marian Hossa off the ice on a stretcher Tuesday night? Concurrent life sentences in the penalty box? Or Player of the Week honors?

    • Morrissey: White Sox’ supposed doom has yet to bloom

    You can tell a winning baseball team by the noise level in the clubhouse before a game. Music blares. Players laugh. People walk with a self-assurance to their step that all but shouts, ‘‘We know where we’re going.’’ You’d like to think the White Sox’ …

    Ozzie Guillen’s shockers are never a surprise

    The day after Ozzie Guillen publicly apologized for saying he loved Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, I did 13 interviews with various radio hosts around the country who wanted insight into what made him tick or, if you prefer time-bomb imagery, tick-tock. The next day, there …

    Tom Thibodeau can’t downplay Bulls’ victory over Heat

    It’s a good thing this wasn’t a big game. It’s a good thing this was just another game, the way Tom Thibodeau insisted it was. Because if this had been a big game, the Bulls and the Heat would have played each other tooth and …

    Bubba Watson wins the Masters on second playoff hole

    AUGUSTA, Ga. — Poor Louis Oosthuizen. On Sunday, he was paired with a guy named Bubba, which means he had as much support here as anti-grits legislation would. Oosthuizen is South African, not Southern. Bubba Watson is from Bagdad, which is in Florida, and played …

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