Barry Temkin

In golf, they say you drive for show and putt for dough. I'm not sure about that, but without a doubt Lisa Joyce was putting on quite a show Wednesday...

Illinois' great prep school basketball experiment is over, at least for now. Boys to Men Math & English Academy, a Southwest Side boarding school created from scratch for basketball stars,...

In sports, specialization gets about as much love as Barry Bonds does. Many a fan will tell you that too many kids are playing too few sports, often in some...

It was the kind of bet fathers and their sporting sons make all the time. You do this and I'll buy you that. When Joel and Evan Jager struck their...

Sportsmanship is all about etiquette, so maybe it figures the Illinois High School Association likes to be polite in its battle against bad manners. Sanctions aren't polite, nor is naming...

Tom Shields figured he never would get married. He had had a few close scrapes with matrimony as a young man, but like some post player on a pick-and-roll, he...

New Trier's pitching staff is loaded with good arms. Fortunately, it's loaded with good heads too. One without the other would be a decidedly mixed blessing because bad chemistry can...

Some of the events have changed, and so has some of the language, but summer basketball is still shoe business. Nothing wrong with that. Free enterprise has made us great....

The secret to success, and failure, in Chicago Public League track hasn't been much of a secret. There's a shortage of good coaches. Facilities stink. Kids who can run fast...

Mick Viken almost was born to be a pole vaulter. Andy Ryan still sounds a bit surprised he wound up with a pole in his hands. What's not surprising is...