Mike Downey

A major announcement from Capt. Margaret D. Klein, commandant of the U.S. Naval Academy, came down swiftly Saturday to every midshipman (male or female) and every red-blooded future officer (gentleman...

A full house, the 50th consecutive sellout at the United Center, came for this? These were those Bulls whose season tickets they were warned to order fast? These were those...

I don't know if you've noticed, but we have a popular new Olympic sport in town. It is called: "This Could Hurt Chicago's Chances for 2016." The city's marathon four...

Ladies and gentlemen, you could be in for a cold, cold, cold, Kobe Bryant-free winter here in Chicago. If your deal-or-no-deal Bulls can't play any better than this, then brace...

Kobe Bryant, the greatest basketball player on Earth, is unwanted by a certain segment of Chicago's population for the following reasons, as far as I can tell: *He shoots too...

I woke up Monday morning having such weird hallucinations: Kobe Bryant as a red Bull. Alex Rodriguez decked out in Cubs blue or White Sox black. They were not Halloween...

Halloween often brings you to a haunted house. You walk face first into a spider's cobweb in an old, creaky, spooky house of horrors. I bet you Bears fans didn't...

Question: "Don't you miss all those questions about who's playing quarterback, Coach?" Lovie Smith: "Oh, I can't wait for them. It was a part of every interview I did for...

Question: "Don't you miss all those questions about who's playing quarterback, Coach?" Lovie Smith: "Oh, I can't wait for them. It was a part of every interview I did for...

Steve Fisher's family was able to return home Wednesday after the California wildfires had forced the Fishers to drop everything and flee. "We had 70-m.p.h. winds Sunday night," the San...