November 13, 2009, Newsletter Issue #5: Chicago Sports Meca offers Diverse Games

Tip of the Week

Many different Professional & semi-pro teams make their home in Chicago with many sports having 2 teams right in town!

Football, Baseball, Basketball & Hockey all have at least 2 pro teams in the City of Chicago! Add a professional LaCrosse team and top-notch Soccer with the Chicago Fire and on any given day you have a game. Chicago is also home to some of the top competitive fishing events in the country.

For football there are the Chicago Bears & Chicago Rush, our indoor arena team. The first featured legendary Chicagoan, Mike Ditka as a player and later a coach. The Rush are now part-owned by Iron Mike himself.

For Baseball Chicago features the 2005 World Series Champs the White Sox as well as one of the oldest teams in baseball the Cubs. While the Sox are most famous for their "Black Sox" that threw the 1919 World Series because of gambling, the Cubs are most famous as loveable losers and for their playing field home- Wrigley Field.

Two minor-league teams from baseball make their home near Chicago, the Kane County Cougars & Schaumburg Flyers.

Brand new in 2006 the Chicago Machine will bring Professional LaCrosse to the Windy City sport's scene. Sticks, collisions,pads and helmets, should be popular.

For the purist, there is major league soccer with Chicago being one of the centers for World Cup soccer action, soccer is big here. Long-time pro soccer town, Chicago has featured the Chicago Sting through the early 80's. The Chicago Fire came on the scene and are about to open up a new stadium.

Whether you wish to watch a round ball, an oblong ball or watch top anglers wet a line- there is something going on all the time in Chicago!

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