Dennis Tarwood

SB Nation Chicago's Dennis Tarwood is here with some NBA predictions for the 2012-2013 season.

The New York Knicks are famous and the Detroit Pistons are infamous. Find out why neither are helpful this season.

SB Nation Chicago's 2012-2013 NBA season preview is here. Dennis Tarwood takes a look at the Houston Rockets and Memphis Grizzlies.

Carlos Boozer uses the same trainer as his kids, blocks as many shots as them.

Brian Scalabrine's finally settled on a Boston broadcasting job after a very public job hunt. It's odd how much we knew about that search, considering the sources. Did Benny the Bull soak us with leaks?

Your one-stop shopping for two-hour drinking lunches during Euro 2012, the European football championship tournament

We tried Frank Thomas' malt liquor so you don't have to. We wish you'd done it instead.

Magglio Ordóñez's impending retirement reminds us all of the legend of The Big Tilde. Or, at least, now it will.

Cubs patriarch Joe Ricketts is priming for a brutal and vulgar battle this fall. If you don't side with him, there's no reason for you to wait to join the fight.

SBN Chicago apocryphally speaks to the computational mind behind the Chicago Cubs' new braintrust to find out Dale Sveum's most important role in the organization.