Barry Temkin

It's safety first in the great metal vs. wood youth baseball bat debate. That's as it should be. If metal bats launch balls with greater velocity than wood bats do...

If high school sports had its own Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt not recruit" would be one of them. State high school athletic associations routinely prohibit representatives of prep teams from...

Montana Butsch calls it "a huge leap of faith," and it's easy to see why. In Chicago, where kids are all basketball all the time, Butsch is looking for teenagers...

Alexis Euwema isn't one to run from a challenge. That's fortunate because when you compete in soccer and track you will be on the run almost constantly, particularly if you're...

They are angry but not outraged, and not altogether surprised. They believe that what radio host Don Imus said last week clearly is wrong but are less sure he should...

It is the bedrock principle of high school sports. Through winning and losing, lunatic parents and street agents, good sportsmanship and bad, we have always been able to fall back...

This is a story about two stories that don't make sense, at least if you look at them separately. It makes no sense that Chris Steele, by all accounts one...

For Tom Robbins, running is more a journey than a destination, more a process than a result. Few athletes prefer practice to competition, but the Loyola Academy senior distance runner...

It was the home opener, but this was not exactly home for the brand new Julian water polo team. Home was a bright, roomy pool at the Far South Side...

Wrapping up basketball: - Derrick Rose is the best high school player in Illinois and almost certainly the state's Mr. Basketball, but he is not the most valuable player on...