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High On The Hog: Losing Streak Hits Five

By Jon Fromi February 19, 2021 0

The Rockford IceHogs have set a franchise record for futility to open a season, dropping two games this past week to fall to 0-4-1 on the 2020-21 campaign. The piglets have been in most of these games. However, the discrepancy in talent is pretty evident. The IceHogs began a four-game home stand by losing to […]

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Live From The Five Hole – Spider In The Snow

By Matt McClure February 17, 2021 0

The Hawks continue to buck the numbers, and we continue to shit all over the results. There’s a peppering of Chicago sports miscellany as well. Get it all after the jump.

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The Egg Nog Has Gone Bad, And Other Housekeeping Items

By Matt McClure December 28, 2020 0

There are people and outlets out there that will demure and deflect in situations like this, where a disaster could be spotted a mile away and was called out at the time, and still failed to be avoided. This is not such an outlet, never has been and never will be. I fucking told you […]

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Live From The Five Hole – Mean Street

By Matt McClure October 13, 2020 0

So it’s been a long time since we rapped at ya. Plenty to cover, spanning far and wide. Enjoy.

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The Indiginites Truly Never Cease

By Matt McClure August 28, 2020 0

There is no way to dance around how the breaking story from respected and long-time Panthers reporter George Richards impacts us here. In short, Dale Tallon is reported to have used racist language while representing the Panthers as recently as their appearance during the preliminary round of the playoffs in Toronto. And while nothing is […]

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Are You Ready for Some Futbol—Serie A Returns

By Rose Rankin June 11, 2020 0

Let’s be honest—it feels a little ridiculous to be writing about sports right now. We’re in the midst of a long-overdue reckoning with this country’s toxic legacy of racism and police brutality; the economy is a mess and we all know someone, maybe ourselves, affected by un- or under-employment; and oh yeah, a poorly understood […]

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Live From The Five Hole – Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow? – With Ashok Selvam

By Matt McClure April 23, 2020 0

We’re back once again in the midst of the lockdown with a very special Director’s Cut episode featuring friend Ashok Selvam (@Shokdiesel) of Eater Chicago to join us to discuss the talk of the sports universe right now in The Last Dance, as well as share his expertise in the brave new world that the restaurant […]

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Mad Science and MLB

By Andy Jonathan April 10, 2020 0

We all pretty much figured that MLB was going to do whatever it could to try and salvage as much of this season as humanly possible, and understandably so. Major League Baseball is a billion dollar business, and those folks don’t like to sit idly by and let that money go up in smoke if […]

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New World Order: 2020 White Sox Player Previews – Mengel and the 26th Man

By Wes French March 11, 2020 0

We’ve reached the end of the position player portion of these previews and let me thank you, dear reader, for coming this far. The following list will include a few guys that might never see an at bat with the big club, but dang it the MLB added an extra roster spot and I wanna […]

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Let’s Just Call It “Smell Ya Later”

By Sam Fels March 10, 2020 0

Funny, when you’ve been doing this 12 years, you think about the end a lot. And then it gets here, and you still don’t know what to say. So I guess it’s best just say it. Today is my last day captaining the good ship FFUD. The time has come for me to move on. […]