Mike Downey

Well, they just held the yearly tribal ceremony and virgin sacrifice known as the Cubs Convention, which means that another season of comical Cubs baseball must be right around the...

Their knees were killing them. LaDainian Tomlinson couldn't go. He tried, but it was no use. "First play," the biggest star of the San Diego Chargers replied when asked Sunday...

I know a thing or two about the San Diego Chargers. I know their original owner was Barron Hilton, son of Conrad, paternal grandfather of Paris. I know the greatest...

LeBron James is not going to be with us very much longer. Not at this rate. He is going to kill somebody with a car or be killed in one...

Have you ever seen a team do everything wrong in a single season? I mean everything? Your 2007-08 Chicago Bulls have. If you thought the White Sox and Bears were...

Every once in a while in life, you get to know a young girl so golden, a young guy so gifted, you can't believe how precocious they are, how prosperous...

"Do you think I played my career because I'm worried about the [censored] Hall of Fame? I don't need the Hall of Fame to justify that I put my butt...

Last year, with shoo-ins Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. on the ballot, the Baseball Hall of Fame drama surrounded how much support Mark McGwire would get. The answer was:...

I put in a call for Candace Parker a month or so ago. Numbers were exchanged. Dates were arranged. Appointed hours came and went. Four days after I expected her...

You saw Justin Harrison scoop up a loose ball, sprint for a touchdown and begin to celebrate a Happy New Year ... only to have the play called back. You...