Meet Dave, enemy of Cubs fans everywhere. Dave comes from church-going stock in Peoria. Dave went to Iowa because his dad and brothers did. Dave came to Chicago to show...
Please, New Jersey, make Jerry Krause's mistake for him. Please use the No. 1 pick on the most overrated player in this year's NBA draft. Texas center Chris Mihm's long-term...
I wrote on April 27 that Cubs General Manager Ed Lynch deserved at least the next three weeks. Nineteen of the next 22 games were at home. Lynch's Nos. 1...
In the wake of the news. I had long admired his courage, taking on Knight in Knightville, home phone listed. But as I saw him do his flamboyant anti-Knight routine...
A sacred line was crossed Tuesday night at Wrigley Field. A last bastion was violated. Welcome to the perilous present, old girl. You'll never be quite the same. The "c"...
Real guts would have been firing him, for his sake and Indiana University's. Real strength and vision for president Myles Brand and his trustees would have been to apologize Monday...
Close your eyes. Open your mind. Imagine Bobby Knight, basketball coach, Northwestern University. Imagine Chicago fans forgiving and embracing this flawed lightning rod the way Chicago fell for Ditka or...
The summer I didn't want to end, the summer of 1972 at Arlington Park, ended unforgettably with my future wife in bed with Vic the Quick. I remembered that night...
I'm suspicious of the NBA's Rookie of the Year voting. If this were the NFL or Major League Baseball, I wouldn't be so skeptical. But this is the league that...
Headlines we might see... Rocker rocks and fires again: John Rocker outraged Asian-Americans with a remark made during a speech he gave in his hometown of Macon, Ga., to a...