Roger Wallenstein

Agony & Ivy Agony & Ivy is published by The Beachwood Media Company with the express purpose of providing clear-eyed reporting, analysis and commentary that venerates the truth and exposes the phonies and greedheads who have ruined a poignant and precious cultural phenomenon that was always about the fans and never about the players, management, the media, the North Side or the yuppie gentrifiers who spoil everything they touch. Reclaim the Cubs! Currently under remodeling.

The Fallacy Of How The Cubs Were Built By Steve Rhodes We all know the Cubs were built into a World Series contender through a farm system rejuvenated by high draft picks resulting from three seasons of tanking, right? Wrong. Let's take a look at the team's 25-man roster and how they all came to be Cubs.

Black Colleges Join eSports Bandwagon By Delece Smith-Barrow/The Hechinger Report The fall semester for most college students won't look like any semester in the past, and that's not such a bad thing for Keenan Johnson. He attends one of North Carolina's historically black colleges and universities, Johnson C. Smith University, which is offering classes remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic.