Barry Temkin

A three-point play: Tony Soprano playing Sonny Vaccaro. Now that's inspired casting. Vaccaro, the recently retired gym shoe impresario, often has been called basketball's godfather, so who better to play...

A stopwatch can measure time, but not effort and certainly not guts. So while it will tell you Erika Jackson is not exactly the swiftest performer on the Hinsdale South...

Football is serious business, but now the meeting was over and Haynes Smith allowed himself a smile. "It has been a dream of mine to play football," he said. His...

Nick Plato didn't need this. He didn't need what amounted to a high school redshirt year to fulfill his dream of playing college football -- at least not until fate...

A father coaching his son is not that unusual. A grandfather coaching a grandson is another matter. Then there's the Prairie Ridge football team, which has two grandfather-grandson combinations: Bob...

It seemed like no big deal at the time, and certainly no surprise. Nothing seemed to last long in Dex Jones' young life -- nothing good anyway. The 10-year-old barely...

Never leave a game early. I learned that the hard way a half-century ago when I counted my chickens an inning before they hatched and wound up seeing one of...

PATRICK LEE BARRINGTON Tennis CLASS RANK 1 of 687 COLLEGE: Yale PATRICK LEE can't control time, so he simply ignores it. In his bedroom, the Barrington tennis standout turns the...

This was, in many ways, a most predictable school year. It was a year of streaks and dynasties, when teams expected to win usually did and stars often lived up...

If you painted Brother Rice's baseball season by the numbers, Jack Carmody and Bob Dempster would blend into the background. Carmody, the team's No. 4 starter, is 3-2 with a...