Melissa Isaacson

Here's how it works in the NFL. Free agent superstar-to-be or slightly over-the-hill star fields calls from interested teams, generally well before the league mandates such contact is permissible. Said...

Somewhere Rick Majerus has to be snickering. The coach who didn't meet the mysterious, lofty standards of Notre Dame basketball coach a year ago, the same guy who did not...

Someday they may learn how to hide their tears. Eventually they will surely downplay their emotions, possibly even resent the implication that emotions are involved. But forever it will taint...

We think we know them, but even the most revealing among athletes only tell us what they want us to know. We know if they're married, whether they have children,...

Just for fun, and in the name of scientific research, someone ought to think about inventing a new cheer to replace the wave. Get everyone in a row at Wrigley...

She only saw the movie once, a few years ago, and not because she especially wanted to see it. Kristi Piccolo was just 18-months-old when her father died and she...

There's gambling and then there's luck, and let us not for a second confuse the two. The supposedly stodgy Bears have done as much of the former as any team...

Having your father serve as your spokesman is not, as a rule, a good idea. It did little for Barry Sanders. It didn't seem to help Tiger Woods much. And...

The mad hugger is back. And not a moment too soon. He has been enlisted to apply a solid kick to the tush of U.S. Gymnastics, to rescue a team...

It violates the most basic of life's principles, our fundamental belief in the natural order of things. Children bury their parents, not the other way around. Mike and Pat Scholz...