Steve Greenberg
Sports Columnist
Steve Greenberg is a sports columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times.
If these Cubs were mere pretenders in the first place, what’s a new month going to change about that?
Just when the Cubs might have begun to feel a tiny bit of hope that their bleak season might get better and brighter, the Brewers blitzed them as if to say, “Enjoy baseball oblivion, suckers.”
In this Cubs notebook, we also look at Drew Smyly’s 300th game pitched, Ethan Roberts’ long-awaited return to the mound and a very small club with Ian Happ as a member.
There are no awards for acting like you care, but it’s still a good look — especially for a team that came in 3-9-1 in road series and 2-11 in its last 13 series overall.
Cubs' Justin Steele puts a fitting capper on his June — yet another terrific start, still zero 'W's'
After a hard-luck no-decision Saturday in the Cubs’ 5-3 win against the Brewers, Steele has a dirty dozen starts this season — six of them in a sparkling June — without a victory on his record.
Pass the Blatz. Or the Schlitz. And keep ’em coming.
In this week’s “Polling Place,” we also asked about the Bulls’ offseason and your soccer viewing habits on TV.
The first Sunday of the season brings Caitlin Clark to Wintrust Arena for one of the games of the day in all of sports. After that, though, Chicago fans might look at the states of some of their teams and realize there’s a lot to complain about.
In this week’s “Polling Place,” voters also were asked about the Bulls’ and Blackhawks’ upcoming drafts.