BASKETBALL: CUNNING OF THE BULLS

THEY'RE GREAT ENOUGH TO WIN 70 IN A SEASON AND SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THEY STILL NEED 15 MORE

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The last Chicago team to be this dominant also had a Big Three. The 1906 Cubs won an amazing 116 games to 36 losses and inspired Franklin P. Adams to write his famous verse: "Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble/Making a Giant hit into a double/ Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble/Tinker to Evers to Chance."

Pippen to Rodman to Air has a nice sort of ring to it, but before anyone starts writing poems about dese Bulls, he or she might want to consider this: the Cubs' gonfalon bubble in 1906 was burst by the White Sox.

--With reporting by Julie Grace/Chicago

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