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Going Back to Heaven: A Rick Telander Interview

If you love basketball and can read, you likely know the story behind Rick Telander's Heaven Is a Playground. In 1973, a young Telander convinced Sports Illustrated to let him do a feature on high-profile college players back in their old neighborhoods for the summer. A year later, the aspiring journalist returned to...

The Mystery of The Broken Pipe

Is it just me, or are we spending way too much time talking about the Cubs on this blog lately? We're one day away from the start of the NLCS, and instead of talking about the Phililes and Dodgers, we're reporting on every little thing the Cubs do. This needs to change, and I promise you FanHouse readers I'm going to...

Rick Telander Feels Bird Crap, Sees Omen

There are lots of reasons for Cubs fans to feel -- even more than normal -- that this is The Year. The Cubs are in first place in a relatively weak NL Central; the team's offense is a finely-tuned OBP machine; and the first half's solid pitching is set to spike with the addition of Rich Harden. Things are good. Fingers are...

Call Chicago Bears' Olin Kreutz a 'Serial Jaw Breaker' if You Must, but Say It to His Face

Chicago Bears center Olin Kreutz seems like one of the NFL's hardest players to figure out. On the one hand, he's obviously smart, a hard-working team player, and a charitable man who has contributed money to retired players who have had health and financial problems. On the other hand, he has broken teammates' jaws in...

Even Jay Mariotti's Co-Workers Hate Him

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti is not popular. He's hated among readers, who often (I assume) read his columns out of masochistic self-spite. He's hated by teams and players. He's hated by the crosstown paper. And he's hated by the internet, perhaps most of all. Now, you can officially add his co-workers to that...

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Founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom and Affiliate of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley , he's taught at Oxford, Stanford, and Harvard, and in meditation centers in Europe, North America, and Australia.

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Background on Rick Telander

Rick Telander is the senior sports columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Hired in 1995 from Sports Illustrated where he was a Senior Writer, Telander's presence at the newspaper was expected to counter the stable of sports columnists the rival Chicago Tribune had.

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