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Let’s shuffle up and deal!

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
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August 25, 2010
In case you haven’t bought your ticket to Aces UP! yet (it’s happening this Friday), here are the top ten reasons to do so RIGHT NOW:
  1. Your participation helps a great cause:  Urban Prep;
  2. The grand prize is worth $5,000 (and there are a bunch of other prizes too-bringing the total value of the prize pool to over $10,000);
  3. You could win a fantastic Tiffany & Co watch worth over $3,500 in a raffle (and you don’t even have to play in the tournament to enter the raffle);
  4. Win bragging rights (and a prize) when you send one of our celebrity bounties packing.  Susan Carlson, Ryan Chiaverini, DC Crenshaw, John Fritchey, Alexi Giannoulias, Teddy Greenstein, Jim Houlihan, Natalie Martinez, Stephanie Neely, Jannero Pargo, Richard Roeper, John Rogers, Ameet Sachdev, Jannero Pargo and Chris Zorich are among our celebs daring you to knock them out;
  5. There will be an open bar and plenty of food for spectators and players to enjoy;
  6. Your participation helps a great cause:  Urban Prep;
  7. You can enjoy the River East Art Center’s outdoor space on a gorgeous summer evening;
  8. Today is the last day to buy a discounted Aces UP! tourney ticket by clicking here;
  9. The event is the day after tomorrow and there’s no better way to enjoy a Friday evening than at Aces UP!;
  10. Did I mention you’ll be helping a great cause?
Hope to see your poker face when you go all-in this Friday at Aces UP!

Thanks,

Tim

Tim King

Founder & CEO

Urban Prep Academies

PS  For more information about Aces UP!, please visit www.acesuptourney.com or call or email Ed Briscoe (312-276-0259, ext. 1106; ebriscoe@urbanprep.org).

New Harry Potter trailer

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

A few more shots from the game.

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Sox/Cubs/Hawks.

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Some snapshots from Sunday night’s game/celebration at Wrigley Field..

Chicago sports history.

Monday, June 14th, 2010

As a lifelong Chicago area resident and a major sports fan, it’s been my privilege to witness some of the greatest moments in Chicago sports history. As a fan and/or a member of the media, I covered the Bulls in the 1990s, I’ve seen about 90 percent of the postseason games involving the Cubs and Sox over the last quarter-century, I’ve witnessed the Bears’ playoff games–and I’ve been in the Stadium and then in the United  Center for a number of Blackhawks games.

The Sox will always be first in my heart, and nothing will ever top the experience of being on the field just before Game 1 of the World Series in 2005, not to mention Jermaine Dye’s homer off Roger Clemens in the first inning of Game 1, Paul Konerko’s grand slam and Scott Podsenik’s game-winning home run in Game 2, Geoff Blum’s homer and Mark Buehrle’s save in Game 3, the 1-0 finale of Game 4…

That said, you can mark the date and the locale: June 13, 2010, Wrigley Field. Even though the Sox and the Cubs are underachieving this year and both squads would kill to hit the .500 mark by the All-Star break, it was one of the most memorable nights in Chicago sports history.

That “team picture” of the Cubs, Sox and Blackhawks was a thing of beauty. Jim Cornelison belting out his operatic version of the National Anthem as 40,000-plus fans roared–chills all around. Ozzie Guillen hoisting the Cup as Cubs fans booed–hilarious.

The game itself was a throwback, with Gavin Floyd and Ted Lilly hooking up in a classic pitchers duel, with neither pitcher giving up a hit through the first two-thirds of the game.

The last time two pitchers had no-hitters going into the seventh was 1997.

Kevin Brown\’s 1997 no-hitter

Finally, Alfonso Soriano cracked a double down the left-field line with two outs in the bottom of the seventh. I figured Ozzie Guillen would bring in a lefty to face Chad Tracy–but nobody was warming up, nobody was coming in, and Tracy singled home Soriano, giving the Cubs a 1-0 lead.

Even with raindrops occasionally falling and fans craning their necks to get a glimpse of the Cup up in the booth, even with the madness of the best “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” ever, with Blackhawks players throwing their caps and jerseys into the crowd (thank God that one guy in the first row of the upper deck didn’t take a tumble as he grabbed a jersey), Lilly remained focused on the gem at hand, holding the Sox hitless until the top of the 9th, when pinch-hitter Juan Pierre led off with a clean single up the middle. Eventually Carlos Marmol worked out of a bases loaded jam, and the Cubs avoided the sweep.

Can you imagine if Lilly had thrown a no-hitter against the Sox on the night of the Stanley Cup celebration at Wrigley Field? For Cubs fans, it still wouldn’t be nearly as sweet as a World Series win, but wow. As it was, all who were in attendance Sunday night will be telling stories about it forever.

Lilly\’s gem

“The Killers” — Too good to be screened for critics?

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Is it social media marketing–or an attempt to keep critics away from a piece of junkola?

Ice ice baby to go…

Friday, May 28th, 2010

The Chicago Blackhawks Ice Crew Girls put some…ice in our drinks.

Nice shot, dude.

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Here’s the montage I was talking about WLS-AM…

Flip Video thoughts on “Lost.”

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Previously, and forever, on “Lost”…

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

 
 
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