Terrence Tomlin and Eugene McIntosh didn’t expect to walk away from a week at Medill’s Media Innovation and Leadership Academy (MILA) with a check for $10,000. But as they’ve learned through their decade of pioneering their sports media company The Bigs, they’ve carved out a space for themselves in the Chicago media landscape.
The Bigs began as an idea in McIntosh’s one-bedroom apartment in Hyde Park in 2015. Fast forward to 2026, the Black-owned sports media company has covered Chicago’s professional and high school sports teams, from the Cubs curse-breaking 2016 World Series championship, to Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California, to a Tuesday night Bulls game at United Center.
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