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Fans saw highlights of two news conferences Wednesday in Chicago, one at Ditka's restaurant, the other at Wrigley Field. One featured new XFL coach Dick Butkus, delighting reporters with heavily...

He was the only member of the Bears' hierarchy who lived downtown. He was single, late 30s, drove a Porsche. A commute to Lake Forest that could take two hours...

The breeze that reached Notre Dame's campus Friday afternoon might as well have been caused by sighs of relief up and down the Big East. Have no fear: The lion...

I'm almost ashamed to admit the All-Star Game--the actual nine-against-nine baseball part--was once the highlight of my sports-crazed life. This was a hundred or so years ago, when baseball cards...

An hour earlier, hundreds of newspaper reporters, TV crews and radio hosts with live mikes had fought for interview positions around Sammy Sosa's table in a hotel ballroom. The rest...

As 38,706 fans inched down the ramps and out of Wrigley Field, dripping claustrophobic sweat and Sox-Cubs emotion, dueling chants erupted. "Let's go, Cubs!" came from home-team fans who finally...

Call them the Hooterville Bulls. The former NBA dynasty has stooped to shameless small-town tactics. They're groveling for a 21-year-old who couldn't carry Michael Jordan's golf bag. And I don't...

He can't be real. Nobody is named Herbert, and if he is, he goes by initials or a nickname or at least Herb. Nobody just materializes one day at third...

And some of us thought the franchise-changing free agents wouldn't even return the Bulls' calls. As of Wednesday a lineup featuring Tracy McGrady at small forward and Eddie Jones at...

Someone should make this into an only-in-America movie, to open next Fourth of July. "Star-Spangled Sammy" is the cautionary tale of a one-time shoeshine boy from the Dominican Republic who...