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The Chicago Tribune 20 years ago today featuring Illinois losing in the national championship game to North Carolina and opening day wins for the White Sox and Cubs. Sox won 1-0 to start, 1-0 the first game after the All-Star break and 1-0 to sweep the World Series.

Tomorrow's sports cover for the Hartford Courant featuring the Connecticut Huskies beating South Carolina in the national championship. Designed by Nicholas Gerts.

A couple years after the game, a fan gave Jim Murray a flag that the team had signed that night. He texted me this pic today and I said, "You can see the running ink and stains from all the bee...water you guys had that night." He said, "Well hydrated."

Chicago Tribune sports cover nine years ago today. Kyle Schwarber was 23 years old when he suffered a full tear to his ACL and LCL in his left knee three games into the 2016 season. He had played 71 MLB games and had 16 HRs for his career. Now, he's 32 and 11 HRs away from 300.

April 30, 2015, was the last time the Chicago Bulls won a playoff series. To add to the misery for Chicago fans on this page: Hawks won the Stanley Cup during this run, but have won one playoff series since (a qualifying round during COVID) and the Bears drafting Kevin White.

Today's Chicago Tribune sports cover designed by Nate Bloomquist featuring the death of Chicago Bears legend, pro wrestler, Romeoville mayoral candidate, Angel Hernandez critic and many other titles to those who knew him, Steve McMichael.

Chicago waits for blue or black smoke to be released from the Sears Tower to clarify if the Pope is a White Sox or Cubs fan. Regardless, either fandom is proof he's aware of what hell is. God won't be able to save him if he claims he's a fan of both.

Catholic school students will no longer have to memorize the Act of Contrition, but instead show true contrition and recite every Chicago Bears starting quarterback since Jim McMahon.

Never imagined I'd be texting my uncles, "Do ... you know the Pope?" But one responded with this picture from his 1971 Mendel High School yearbook of Pope Leo XIV's mom, who was a librarian there from 1969-1975.

Plenty of Da Pope in tomorrow's Chicago Tribune, including tackling the important White Sox or Cubs question.

Hopefully, George Wendt is raising a glass with Chris Farley somewhere.

Working on Florida newspapers is never boring.

Going through old stuff and found this gem when Michael Jordan retired. A new line of Da Pressed sportswear would sell well in Chicago right now.

Chicago Tribune sports cover 22 years ago today featuring Sammy Sosa's first game after getting caught with a corked bat. He gets an endorsement from Rod Blagojevich: "All that he's done has earned him the right of the benefit of the doubt."

Tomorrow's Chicago Tribune sports cover featuring Jerry Reinsdorf kinda sorta selling the White Sox ... in a few years ... maybe. The last dance is a slow one.