Mike Downey

Girls will go wild on Saturday night. That is when somebody's team is going to take the Illinois high school basketball championship. The winners will hug their parents, text their...

"Do you think you could win every tournament you play in?" Tiger Woods: "That's my intent." -- Feb. 24, 2008 Holy mother of golf, he won again on Sunday. That...

Oh, brother, did John Paxson just rob the Cleveland Cavaliers blind or what? He cleaned their clock. He ate their lunch. He drank their milkshake. The gag used to be...

A week has gone by. Hands and funerals have been held. Everything is easing up a little for almost everybody. Tim Mayerbock is one of those getting on with his...

He caught a grand total of five passes in the Bears' last three games. He didn't catch a single touchdown pass in the team's last nine games. He tied for...

None of Northern Illinois' athletes were among the dead or wounded from Thursday's shooting rampage, to the best of school officials' knowledge. "Some have gone home and some have chosen...

Virginia Tech's basketball coach made a phone call to his Northern Illinois counterpart a few hours after the massacre in DeKalb. Seth Greenberg called to commiserate, to express his sorrow,...

Mark Twain, whose given surname was Clemens, once observed with characteristic wisdom and wit, "When in doubt, tell the truth." That way, he explained, you won't need to try to...

Roger Clemens is scheduled to give testimony Wednesday morning before a congressional committee as to the truth of accusations by his former trainer, Brian McNamee, that the pitcher used steroids...

She recited the Pledge of Allegiance, and then a man walked in and shot her. Connie Conroy Karr led a wonderful life until Thursday, when a disturbed person put an...