Spencer Boehm continues the family tradition at New Trier
By Eric Burgher “Is this your kid?” the woman asked, holding the boy’s hand. She had found him downstairs in the weight room doing flips and cartwheels. Attempting them, anyway. Susan Boehm gazed down at her then-four-year-old son, a big smile on his face and a welt the size of a grapefruit on his head. […]
Anti-Semitic threats and vandalism hit Chicago Jewish centers
By Eric Burgher Hostility toward Jewish community centers and day schools across the nation continued this week, with bomb threats to centers in 11 states, and approximately 100 headstones damaged at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia over the weekend. With no suspects in custody, concern continues to grow in the Jewish community. The latest wave […]
The rise of analytics in high school basketball
By Eric Burgher Wearing a gold jersey and gold shorts, Nojel Eastern stood out at a recent Evanston High School basketball practice. And not just because the senior and future Purdue Boilermaker is an ESPN Top 100 recruit. While the rest of the team was dressed in the Wildkits’ black and orange practice uniforms, Eastern […]
Winningest Super Bowl QB Brady named MVP
By Eric Burgher Reporting from Houston After leading the New England Patriots in the largest comeback in Super Bowl history, quarterback Tom Brady still had to go back and see it with his own eyes. “There were so many plays that I got back to my room last night pretty late and I was still […]
Falcons fans flock to Houston hoping for Super Bowl glory
By Eric Burgher Reporting from Houston [vimeo 202832908] The Atlanta Falcons have been here before. The Falcons return to the Super Bowl this season for the first time since 1998, when they lost to the Denver Broncos. Now armed with MVP Matt Ryan, the Falcons are on a mission to bring their first Super Bowl […]
Politics and protests come to Super Bowl LI
By Eric Burgher Reporting from Houston “No ban, no wall, Houston is for all.” Those chants echoed in the streets of downtown Houston Saturday as hundreds of anti-Trump protesters hoped to steal a momentary spotlight at one of the biggest events in professional sports, Super Bowl LI. The protest began at City Hall and made […]
Northwestern football keeps eye on the future at signing day
By Eric Burgher As Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald sat down to greet the media Wednesday at the team’s national signing day event, he knew he’d be introducing one of the best classes of his tenure. The Wildcats’ 2017 class is ranked No. 46 in the country and No. 10 in the Big Ten, according […]
War on the Shore showcases basketball, epilepsy awareness
By Eric Burgher Six of the top high school basketball teams in the Chicago area competed this weekend, but the focus of the day was off the floor as the Danny Did Foundation raised just over $3,300 for epilepsy awareness. The 7th Annual “War on the Shore” at Evanston High School was the foundation’s most […]
Surging Northwestern breaks into AP Top 25
By Eric Burgher Northwestern is in uncharted territory. The Wildcats placed 25th in the Associated Press rankings Monday, the first time they have ever been ranked this late in the season. The Wildcats have only been ranked four other times in the school’s history and have not been in the AP poll this late in […]
Steep learning curve but high ceiling for young New Trier star
By Eric Burgher Word had gotten around about a 12-year-old hockey player from Glencoe, who at 6-foot-5, was growing out of his pads. Ciaran Brayboy, who had been skating since he was four and playing hockey since kindergarten, grew up on the ice. But as he approached his teenage years, Brayboy started to see signs […]
