Steve Greenberg

Reporter/columnist, sports
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Steve Greenberg is a sports columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times.

The Chicago native covered University of Wisconsin football and basketball in the early 1990s before spending nearly 20 years as a magazine editor and writer.

A former managing editor, features writer and college football columnist for The Sporting News, he has written for The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Bleacher Report. He joined the Sun-Times in 2013.

Latest from Steve Greenberg

“Whether it’s an inning or an out, give me the ball and I’m going to go,” Smith said.
This comeback — he’s hitting .275 with 10 homers and 39 RBI — has brought him great satisfaction as well as relief.
The Tigers’ Javy Baez and the Phillies’ Kyle Schwarber were among many with good things to say about the breakout center fielder.
Twenty years on from a championship, details get blurred as stories only get better. But it’s right on the money to say the Sox never would’ve won it all had they not remade their roster in a tone-shifting manner.
In this week’s “Polling Place,” we also asked if NASCAR’s Chicago Street Race should continue.
A double-play combination that can help spirit the Sox out of the abyss, through the wilderness and toward something brighter? Um, maybe.
After two years of record rain, canceled concerts, shortened races and necessary decreases in ticket prices, a breakup might be the way to go.
In this week’s “Polling Place,” we also participated in the great American tradition of poking fun at the White Sox and Rockies.
You know what would be just as helpful to the Cubs as trading for a quality starter? If their highest-paid pitcher at $18 million a year got himself into top gear and stayed there.