Kyle Korver

No reason Bulls' Rose can't recapture magic

Amid the civic uncertainty Saturday night over Derrick Rose's basketball future created by the torn ACL in his left knee came hope from the unlikeliest of places: on a mound inside a baseball park six miles south. At U.S. Cellular Field hours after...

Tags: Tom Thibodeau, Ronnie Brewer, David Stern, Richard Hamilton, Chicago White Sox

Mentally, no signs of the Bulls recovering

From now on, whenever someone wants to dispute the connection between confidence and winning in pro sports, I will offer the example of the 2012 Bulls, suddenly reduced to slumped shoulders and brittle spines. Monday at the Berto Center convinced me...

Tags: Mike James, Tom Thibodeau, Doug Collins, Ronnie Brewer, Richard Hamilton

Expect more performances at Studio Paris, Jay Cutler and Kristin Cavallari shop at Gold Coast pet boutique, John Cusack drinks hand sanitizer

Think of Skylar Grey’s performance Saturday in Paris Club’s upstairs lounge, Studio Paris,  as a sign of things to come this summer. Studio Paris — which features a retractable roof and has hosted performances by Jennifer Hudson, Cee...

Tags: Two Door Cinema Club (music group), Jimmy Kimmel Live! (tv program), Kele, Hugh Hefner, Jennifer Hudson

LeAnn Rimes' Chicago condo appearing on HGTV, 'Jersey Shore' star Vinny Schaumburg-bound, Chelsea Handler dines at Japonais

LeAnn Rimes and husband Eddie Cibrian didn’t live in Chicago very long, but the celebrity couple was here long enough to lease a Gold Coast condo and have it featured on an episode of HGTV’s new interior design series, “Interiors, Inc.&...

Tags: Phoenix Suns, Jersey Shore (tv program), Bars and Clubs, Barney's New York Incorporated, Nordstrom

Why Carlos Zambrano was one of my hardest interviews

The night before I was supposed to cover Carlos Zambrano’s Big Z Foundation launch party in early 2010, I came down with a case of food poisoning. All I wanted to do was lie in bed with a garbage can at my side. I was in no mood to talk –...

Tags: Physical Conditions, Carlos Zambrano, The Hollywood Reporter, Miami Heat, RPM Italian

Fashionable night gets extended run

Special to Tribune Newspapers

Fashion's Night Out, a two-week shopping extravaganza leading up to the finale on Sept. 8, most likely pumped up business for local retailers big and small. More than 140 stores, restaurants and hotels participated and, for finale night, there were...

Tags: Services and Shopping, Carson Kressley, Grant Park, Kerry Wood, The Real Housewives of New Jersey (tv program)

Bulls predicament calls for coaching solution

Not that long ago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau stood at a podium after a rare lousy performance and implored players in his own inimitable way. "Do. Your. Job.'' Thibodeau barked in his baritone voice April 16 after the Bulls lost at home to the Wizards....

Tags: Stan Bowman, Louis Williams, Tom Thibodeau, Evan Turner, Richard Hamilton

10 reasons to root for a Bulls loss (chant with me: 'Am-nes-ty, am-nes-ty, am-nes-ty')

With the Bulls on the brink of elimination, Richard Hamilton said they have to make it personal, and I’m wondering, why didn’t that start after Game 2? The Bulls got torched in that second half the last time they played in the United Center....

Tags: Spencer Hawes, Tom Thibodeau, Dalibor Bagaric, Ronnie Brewer, Richard Hamilton

1 horrific play, and Rose's season over

After reaching all those dizzying heights and unfurling countless acrobatic moves in his first three spectacular seasons, Derrick Rose's fourth ended with an awful image. A jump stop. A clutch of his left knee as he rose two feet into the air. A...

Tags: Mike James, Tom Thibodeau, Richard Hamilton, Chicago Bulls, National Basketball Association

Bulls' Korver finds perspective in Rose injury

Bulls fans might need to use a telescope to find a silver lining to Derrick Rose’s shredded knee. But Kyle Korver’s faith tells him there is one. “My grandpa has a saying: ‘God does his best work in life’s graveyards,&...

Tags: Derrick Rose, Facebook

Bulls players on Thibs: Pay the man

A report Friday not only painted coach Tom Thibodeau as “dismayed” over not having been offered a lucrative contract extension, it alleged that “his displeasure with the situation is an open secret in team circles.” If that’...

Tags: Tom Thibodeau, Brooklyn Nets, Mike Brown (basketball), Richard Hamilton, Chicago Bulls

Tags: Mike James, Flu, Boston Celtics, Richard Hamilton, Nick Young