Just another manic Monday?<\/p>\n
Uh, no.<\/p>\n
Holy sports meltdown, Chicago.<\/p>\n
Sky superstar Angel Reese: shipped out of town<\/a>. Bulls execs Arturas Karnisovas and Marc Eversley: fired into the sun<\/a>. Cubs Opening Day starter Matthew Boyd: sent to the injured list<\/a>, where he can hang out and compare arm woes with pals Cade Horton and Justin Steele.<\/p>\n What\u2019s next? Will Caleb Williams announce he\u2019s quitting football to join the circus?<\/p>\n It\u2019s no June 17, 1994, that famous, surreal day when the World Cup opening ceremony took place at Soldier Field while the Rockets and Knicks played in the NBA Finals and, oh, yeah, O.J. Simpson crouched in the back of a white Ford Bronco on a ride across Orange County and Los Angeles with pretty close to the whole world watching.<\/p>\n But still, quite a Monday on our scene.<\/p>\n The Bulls firing executive vice president of basketball operations Karnisovas and his right-hand man, general manager Eversley, would have dominated the news on a typical day. To many, this was long overdue and a wonderful development. And by \u201cmany,\u201d I mean everyone not named Arturas Karnisovas or Marc Eversley.<\/p>\n They didn\u2019t quite make it through six seasons, yet their tenure might as well have lasted eons \u2014 call it the Arturozoic Era \u2014 for all the stultifying boredom they put Bulls through. The Bulls lost more games than they won on the front-office duo\u2019s watch, of course. They went to the playoffs only once and were quickly dismissed in the first round. They were a hard watch this season even before the trade deadline, but then the roster was blown up, leaving the Bulls a shell of a team with a future no serious person would bet on given the ineptitude from the top.<\/p>\n The big trades along the way were mostly clunkers, the drafts were disasters and \u2014 the last straw, it seems \u2014 the Jaden Ivey fiasco was unforgivable. So, off Karnisovas and Eversley go, perhaps for a tee time with John Paxson and Gar Forman.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are committed to taking the necessary steps to move the Bulls forward in a way that makes our fans proud,\u201d team president Michael Reinsdorf assured in a statement.<\/p>\n A lot of those fans will have to be woken up first.<\/p>\n