Barry Temkin

A lot of Bears fans cried tears of joy Sunday. Roy Curry was one of them, but not because the Bears defeated New Orleans in the NFC title game. As...

The cries, of course, will get louder now. Evan King has heard them for the last year or so. He has heard from many a corner of the tennis world...

Wilfredo Escobar never believed he would leave the United States--"ever." So imagine his surprise when he found himself on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean while he was still...

It was the best of news and the worst of news. Wheaton Academy's Andy Euler was going to become a college basketball coach. His son, Benjamin, couldn't have been happier--or...

Deontay Young is an unlikely star, on or off the basketball court. On it he defers to his more heralded Lincoln Park teammates. Off it he is a Cabrini-Green product...

A three-point play: - Well I guess we can postpone the engraving order for the Class AA state basketball championship trophy. Simeon still figures to retain that title, but Farragut...

Here's 2007, seen through a cracked crystal ball: Jan 6: Hubbard running back Robert Hughes chooses Illinois over Notre Dame, increasing an Illini recruiting haul that has all of college...

Gene Pingatore knows the look. It's a look that says, to put it in polite terms, "Uh, Coach, what the heck are you talking about?" It comes from young basketball...

This was not your average basketball warm-up. One moment a dozen girls were scooting forward on hands and feet in a "bear crawl," and the next they were shuffling sideways...

Chris McFarland didn't pick the easiest place to build a high school wrestling program, or then again, maybe he did. Sure, Fenger is one of the more troubled locations in...