Chicago Mariano’s rankings: 1. Bronzeville. It’s incredible, spacious 2. Ashland and Webster 3. Edgebrook (elston) 4. Foster and Sheridan—feels neighborhoody 5. West loop 6. Chicago and Damen—oddly cozy

Eat. Drink. Stay. Welcome to The Village and Great Hall 🍔🍺🎶 Forget typical stadium concessions. At Ryan Field, The Village and Great Hall will showcase top restaurants from Chicago—bringing craft food, drinks & big-screen energy. Come early. Stay late. Watch more Big Ten action.
This is Super Bowl-level hospitality—every gameday. #ChicagoFoodScene #GamedayEats #FestivalGrounds #BigTenFootball #RyanField

College football's most expensive stadium is coming to Northwestern. The build centers around three elements: 👀 Better-than-TV sightlines 📣 A premium experience for every fan 🎉 Unique experiences besides football Behind the build with @bretjust1t: ow.ly/EKpF50VvLUI

Oranges are literally pre-sliced and you don't believe in God

Dave Kaval has resigned as president of the Athletics to pursue new business opportunities in California. Sandy Dean will take over on an interim basis while the A’s search for a new team president in 2025.

Commissioner Rob Manfred on the passing of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson:

Athletics legend and National Baseball Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson has died at 65, NBC Sports California confirmed bit.ly/4gMMlqL

I’m excited by the news that the President-Elect will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to @HHSGov. He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health. Before you mock him or disagree, I want to share with you some quotes that if he follows through show why I’m excited: “Level the playing field for Americans internationally on drug costs…cap drug prices so that companies can’t charge Americans substantially more than Europeans pay." YES! Colorado currently has an application just SITTING at FDA for us to import low-cost prescription drugs from Canada and we just need their approval. "In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are – that have to go, that are not doing their job, they're not protecting our kids," YES! The entire nutrition regime is dominated by big corporate ag rather than human health and they do more harm than good “We’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.” YES! We have tried unsuccessfully to better protect people and pollinators from harmful pesticides here in Colorado and we need all the help we can get to take on big chemical companies and improve human health and the environment! For our pollinators and our people! 🦋 He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again and I hope that we can finally make progress on these important issues.

The A’s officially are no longer the Oakland A’s. They say they are simply the Athletics. But in fact they are now the Sacramento A’s. They just seem too embarrassed to call themselves that. They should be Sacramento proud. Very odd.

For the first time in a major league season, there are more Jacksons (first name) than Jacksons (last name).

Cardinals President Bill DeWitt III told me, “I think it would be in everybody's interest for the Cardinals to be downtown indefinitely, and that's certainly our goal, but we also need to make sure our facility is viable.” riverfronttimes.com/news/as-…

In case it wasn’t obvious to Sacramento fans, the fact that the A’s would rather go by “Athletics” than using your city in their team shows how much they care about you. You’re being used out of convenience. Nothing more to it.