‘You can just hop right on your phone’: Arizona sees gambling boom during Super Bowl week
By Zain Bando Medill Reports PHOENIX – The FanDuel Sportsbook was quiet. Hours before Super Bowl LVII between Kansas City and Philadelphia, bettors sat in comfy chairs. Several television screens showed various games across college basketball and the NBA, including an upset with No. 1 Purdue falling to Northwestern. Before September 2019, sports gambling was […]
Welcome to the Tree House, the Chicago shelter where ‘every cat thrives’
By Isabelle Paquette Medill Reports “When I got in here, and I met the team and met the cats, saw how much work we do here — we’re so much more than a shelter,” said Hannah Ottenfeld, 23, a staff member at Tree House Humane Society in Rogers Park. Ottenfeld has been at Tree House […]
‘I’m enjoying what I’m doing’: Kansas City coach Andy Reid discusses future in NFL, Chiefs’ ‘church mode’ strategy in Monday presser
By John Riker Medill Reports PHOENIX – Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid stepped to the Phoenix Convention Center stage and lifted the Vince Lombardi Trophy one last time in Arizona, before reiterating his desire to contend for more titles during a news conference Monday morning. Asked about his plans to continue coaching, Reid […]