No joy in Mudville-until --

Southpaw -- Community -- Tragic heroes -- A bad case of Cubosity -- Celebrants -- History -- Spirit of '69 -- Requiem for a ballpark -- End of some things -- "Don't worry about getting hurt" -- Bartman: the fans' complicity -- Better lucky than good -- Destiny, ability, and camaraderie -- Denying our own eyes --

Running with the Bulls --

Basketball in black and white -- Shot -- Rising bulls -- Transformation -- Zen triangle -- Bringing it all back home -- Three-peat: the Jordan is mighty and shall prevail -- Comeback -- Head games -- Father's Day, Bloomsday, championship day -- Tanned by the spotlight -- Doo-doo and shit -- A sense of the familiar -- Last shot --

Setting free the Bears --

A team as great as Payton -- Super Bears -- Da coach outcoached -- Bear furnishings -- Tale of the tape -- Soldier Field's inner beauty -- Mensches of the Midway -- Ridiculously beautiful --

Cold steel on ice (metaphorically, not literally) --

Hearing the Hawks -- Bleachers in winter -- Blacked-out Hawks -- Blackhawks family values -- So beautiful, so what? --

Further afield --

Memories -- Harbor lights -- That's cricket -- Tyson at the auditorium -- King versus Simeon -- Kevin Garnett -- Chicago by canoe -- Bloom of the rose