Barry Temkin

Mauvolyene Adams is an unlikely substitute. Last season, as a starter, she helped lead Bolingbrook to the Class AA state basketball title, earning All-State recognition along the way. Now she...

The Illinois High School Association's push toward drug testing recalls the movie catchphrase, "Show me the money!" That's because testing has become less a matter of if or when than...

Mark and Gene Walther look a lot alike at Herscher basketball games. Mark, a senior guard, and his dad wear matching hairdos--barely past bald--and headbands. Their likeness, though, is more...

The idea is nothing new. You take a disadvantaged kid's love for sports and use it as a vehicle to expand his love for learning and his horizons. But who...

Ken Stevenson thought he knew what he was in for when he agreed to invent Seton Academy boys basketball. He knew it would be tough starting a program from scratch,...

I've always had a simple view when it comes to reporting recruiting violations: If you've got the goods, write about it. If you don't, then don't. Well, The New York...

Jack Moore knows he should be thinking about next year, but he can't. Not yet, not until he has to. So when the other schools come calling, when they set...

Alan Newman wants to be an official. We can question his sanity, but at least he knows what he's in for. The Evanston junior found that out in a hurry...

Sooner or later, it's going to happen. Sooner or later, some young man or woman is going to hit a shot right at the final buzzer that will determine our...

Sonny Vaccaro has been one of basketball's biggest contradictions. He has simultaneously been an insider and an outsider, a power-broker and a rebel. He insists he's part of the solution...