Tom Alexander

Tom Alexander founded the Chicago Sports Review in 2003, and currently serves the publication as its co-publisher. Alexander's media career has spanned a variety of interests, including newspaper reporting with the Times of Northwest Indiana, online reporting with ePrairie.com, and a two-plus year stint as a professor in Columbia College Chicago's journalism department. Outside of journalism, Alexander works to redevelop communities that have been struck by natural disasters. Alexander, a 2000 graduate of the University of Chicago, currently lives with his wife Tiffany and their black lab mix, Johnny Cash, in Arlington, Va.

Recent Posts By Tom Alexander

Hello world!

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SSNN posts for the weeks of June 24th through July 8th

I'm going to start posting a few links to my SSNN posts for the previous link, so you all can see what we've got going on over there and hopefully enjoy a couple of those stories. CC Sabathia confused by new nickname MILWAUKEE -- CC Sabathia had an unusual request of reporters in Milwaukee upon arriving with the team Tuesday – no [read more...]

From the files of oddly well-written and extremely heartfelt ...

From the files of oddly well-written and extremely heartfelt comes Milton "Uncle Milty" Bradley, who is submitting a few blog entries about his first trip to the baseball All-Star Game for the New York Times. A couple of things to note: 1. Milton Bradley is an exceptional writer; certainly much better than, say, Todd Jones. 2. I realized in reading this that I [read more...]

Gregor Blanco is a bitch, I think. Maybe not, though.

LOS ANGELES--Hiroki Kuroda was dealing last night. I mean, dealing. As you surely know by now, he ended up spinning a one-hit complete game shutout of the Braves. The one hit was by Mark Teixeira, leading off the 8th inning, and it was a double. That was it for the Braves on this night. Ah, but there was a little drama [read more...]

The evolution of the ambidextrous pitcher

Many of you have likely seen the very entertaining video of the ambidextrous pitcher against the switch hitter from a recent minor league game. I liked this video a lot, for several reasons, not the least of which is that it's yet another reminder that you can watch baseball every day for years and years and still see something that [read more...]

Fear and loathing in Shawn Chacon

Let me be clear about one thing--I wasn't in the Houston Astros dining room a few days ago, when Shawn Chacon grabbed Ed Wade by the throat. But neither, most likely, were you. As you surely have heard by now, Shawn Chacon attacked Houston Astros GM Ed Wade after they had a verbal altercation in the Astros dining room. Chacon has [read more...]

Candace Parker is totally badass ... but you already knew that

The other day, Saturday I think it was, I caught a good piece of the WNBA game between the LA Sparks and the Phoenix Mercury, which had the notable distinction of being Candace Parker's first game ever in the WNBA, and she lived up to the hype. I am not really interested in the WNBA. I think it's a little bit [read more...]

In Complete Control

The Chicago Rush took complete control of the division and perhaps the conference with yet another dominating victory over a team that had once been their tormenters. With the Rush's 65-52 over the Colorado Crush, they may have taken the next step toward their goal of one not being enough. Russ Michna played another tremendous game. He threw for 6 touchdown [read more...]

Smoltz gets 3000th strikeout; doesn't have to look back

John Smoltz notched his 3000th strikeout earlier tonight, which is an astounding feat for anyone, but is doubly outstanding considering that Smoltz had severe arm trouble earlier in his career and subsequently spent a few years as a relief pitcher. Smoltz is 41 and is the 16th pitcher ever to accomplish the feat, which is absolutely astounding. Less people have struck [read more...]

Listen, who really cares how old Miguel Tejada is?

We had a nice piece on the site today by D.K. Wilson regarding Tejada-gate, ESPN's "revelation" of sorts that Miggy Tejada is actually two years older than he said he is already. By now you have surely heard the details of the story. This story is now in the second phase of the story, where we react to the way [read more...]