Tag Archives: Daily Herald sports

My Daily Herald `Call-Up’ Extends to Post-Season Coverage

The Chicago White Sox postseason berth means that my late-season “call-up” by the Daily Herald continued. My first assignment was a roundup of all the regular season games between the Sox and the Houston Astros. A few days later, I went to Guaranteed Rate Field to report on what became a front-page feature for the […]

Cubs, Sox Out: Bye-Bye, By The Numbers

Last week, I offered this equation: October + Baseball=By the Numbers, as I reprised my research-and-writing role for the Daily Herald. I was hoping for a month filled with Chicago baseball. With both the Cubs and White Sox in the post-season, and the Cubs sporting the best record in the National League during the regular […]

Tennis Player Outreach Nets Coverage

I had a post on Friday regarding my media outreach about a 12-year-old tennis player named Jordan Belga who trains at Five Seasons Sports Club in Northbrook, Ill. On Saturday came this Daily Herald feature, which included an interview with Jordan’s coach, Five Seasons tennis pro Jacek Dabrowski. It doesn’t always work out so nicely. […]

October + Baseball=By the Numbers

It’s October and Chicago playoff baseball is under way, so that means my statistical hat is fit snugly atop my head. Allowing my numerical passions to run wild again is Daily Herald sports editor Tom Quinlan, who began publishing my “By The Numbers” baseball blurbs on the Cubs and White Sox in today’s newspaper. My […]