Steve Greenberg

If the Irish have a disastrous stumble in them, it’s not going to come against Syracuse or Stanford in one of their last two games. It’s going to come Saturday against the 7-2 Panthers.

In this week's "Polling Place," we also asked you to pick a favorite Bears rookie and predict who will win Sunday's Bears at Vikings game.

"It will be great to have him back in our sport,” a former Big Ten rival said.

Hint: "F" stands for more than just "find out below."

It's Ohio State, Indiana, Oregon and then? Read on.

There’s no great achievement in kicking a sad-sack opponent to the curb, but it was how the Bears won a fourth game in a row — for the first time since 2018 — that counted.

There was irony in Counsell returning for Game 5 to try to pile onto the Brewers’ pain, because so many of the team's bitter endings came on Counsell’s watch and tore at his heart, too.

In this week's "Polling Place," we also asked whether Cubs-Brewers has surpassed Cubs-Cardinals on the rivalry-o-meter.

“I think the fans will come around someday," Murphy said before Game 2 of the National League Division Series. "I do."

"His use of the bullpen is giving me ulcers," one respondent commented.