Sports, politics mix? Yep

Maybe you don't think the worlds of politics and sports intersect. They do. Oh, man, do they.

And the reason is that both are ruled by ambition, power and money.

This Gov. Rod Blagojevich everything's-for-sale mess has directly to do with the Chicago Cubs and the 2016 Olympics.

Blago, a huge Cubs fan, was caught on the feds' wiretap saying that a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois, the one recently vacated by President-elect Barack Obama, is ''a [bleep]ing valuable thing,'' and ''You just don't give it away for nothing.''

No, sir, you sure don't. And in those federal tapings, Blagojevich also allegedly said the Chicago Tribune needed to fire certain …