Patrick Comiskey

1 month ago | ontapsportsnet.com | Patrick Comiskey

Fast food: As American as baseball and rock 'n' roll. You'll have snobs tell you they don't eat fast food, as if it is some sort of badge of honor. Those people are one of two things: Liars or stupid, there is no in between. Sure, America is fat because of fast food, but it is better to be known for something than nothing at all. World famous slider manufacturer, White Castle is credited with opening the first fast food outlet and first hamburger chain in America.

1 month ago | ontapsportsnet.com | Patrick Comiskey

As part of the Chicago Blackhawks' celebration of their 100th season, the team announced Thursday that it would create a Blackhawks Hall of Fame. Not every player is worthy of having their jersey number retired, so a Hall of Fame allows the team to honor past players who weren't quite at that level, but are an important part of the team's history. The Blackhawks released full details of how the process of being inducted will work.

1 month ago | ontapsportsnet.com | Patrick Comiskey

Modern society and all of its great technological advances has lost one key element and that is the debate. You see, twenty years ago, a group could assemble at a bar and debate any given topic for hours on end. No cell phones, no social media, just people living in the moment and maybe shouting their point across the room yearning for someone to accept defeat. Socrates molded the debate by taking the simple approach of asking and answering questions.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Patrick Comiskey

Carl Doumani, a Los Angeles entrepreneur who bought Stags’ Leap Winery in 1969, was known as a bon vivant and raconteur who regularly lunched with his winemaker friends. Carl Kheir Doumani, a mid-century Los Angeles developer-turned-wine-country icon, died April 22 in his sleep at his home in the Napa Valley, according to his family. The former owner of Stags’ Leap Winery, once at the center of a wine-country legal battle called the Apostrophe War, was 92.

2 months ago | ontapsportsnet.com | Patrick Comiskey

Filed under "things absolutely nobody asked for," the Chicago White Sox introduced new City Connect uniforms Monday evening that feature a crossover with the Chicago Bulls. The long-speculated uniforms have been met with a mixed reaction. Alas, Chicago's two worst franchises are now featured as one. Haven't White Sox fans suffered enough? Was the worst season in MLB history in 2024 not enough?