International Rugby Coming to Chicago
By Nick Mantas Medill Reports At a news conference inside Soldier Field it was announced The Rugby Weekend will be held in Chicago once again. The last time Chicago hosted the event in 2016 sell-out crowds packed the Chicago Bears stadium to see their beloved country-men and women play rugby. Team members from Italy, New […]
Madison Square Garden beats estimate
By Richard Foster-Shelton Medill Reports Madison Square Garden Co. (NYSE:MSG), based in New York City, reported healthy increases in revenues and net income, exceeding analysts’ expectations, for the second quarter ended Dec. 31. Helped by a tax benefit, the company reported net income of $189.6 million, or $7.96 per diluted share, up from $57.7 million, […]
White Sox Fans Have Low Expectations for 2017 Season
By Jennifer Lee As the city of Chicago still seems to be celebrating the Cubs’ World Series title, their cross-town rivals are being over-shadowed yet again. White Sox fans have suffered through some rough seasons after a successful bid for the championship in 2005, and this year doesn’t look like it’s going to be much […]
CPS Middle Schoolers Running to Success With Running Mates
By Kathleen McAuliffe Just after the final bell on a Wednesday afternoon, 50 middle students at Gage Park’s Sawyer Elementary School embark on a three-mile run in preparation for their next race: the Lakefront 5K on Saturday, March 18. They are just one of 12 teams involved in Running Mates, a year-round running program established […]
FITpreneurs: Women Are Becoming Entrepreneurs Through Fitness
By Kathleen McAuliffe At 8:30 on a Tuesday morning, Dani Muckley is already teaching her second workout class of the morning at River North’s Studio Three. Though this spin class will last only 45 minutes, she spent two hours choreographing moves and planning the music, logging each workout onto a PDF to ensure she doesn’t […]
Trail Blazer: Blind Triathlete Wins National Title, Hopes for Repeat
By Kathleen McAuliffe Swimming 750 meters, cycling 24.8 miles and then running 6.2 miles is demanding enough. But at this year’s USA Triathlon national championships, Ashley Eisenmenger couldn’t see the pool before diving into the water. She didn’t know which way to turn on her bike. She couldn’t monitor her running pace on a watch. […]
Junior college transfer finding success at Loyola
By Elan Kane Shawn Trochim, the McLennan (Tex.) Community College athletic director, called men’s basketball coach Kevin Gill one day to talk about the actions of forward Aundre Jackson. But Jackson was not in trouble. Far from it. Trochim had just received a call about how Jackson and a few of his teammates had helped […]
Turning an adaptive lifestyle into a rewarding lifestyle
By Hannah Gebresilassie A Medill Newsmakers Report When society thinks of people in wheelchairs, we often think of what they can’t do instead of what they can do. In this edition of Medill Newsmakers, wheelchair users in Chicago open up about living an adaptive lifestyle. The perspectives come from gunshot survivors, Skyhawks wheelchair basketball team […]
Online harassment: A harsh reality for women covering sports
By EmmaKate Austin A Medill Newsmakers report In this edition of Medill Newsmakers, we take a look at the harassment women covering sports experience online and through social media. Sports writers, radio hosts, anchors and commentators all give their take on this issue. [vimeo 169848933 w=474]
Former football player wrestles his way through more than just his opponents
By Caley Chelios Former Northwestern football player Jack Schwaba, is on the road to wrestling superstardom. He’s traveling around the country performing at various venues including Northwestern’s own Wrestlepocalypse. Schwaba is a maniac in the ring, tearing down his opponents under his stage alias, Jack Sheridan- a country-club rich-kid with no regrets. But his early […]
