Barry Temkin

The Illinois High School Association's enrollment multiplier is all about numbers, in particular 1.65. So here are two more numbers to consider: 130 and 30. The former is the number...

This is where Providence is supposed to be, at least if history is any guide. History insists that as surely as Michigan vs. Ohio State will matter and Illinois vs....

It was so close and so heartbreaking. Who would have believed, though, it would be so historic? Who would have believed that nearly a quarter century later the 1982 Robeson...

Taylor Lawless was in pain. This, unfortunately, was hardly news. For the last four years, if it hasn't been one thing, it has been another. If it wasn't her dad...

Andy Greenaway is a team player. If there's a team at Mooseheart, he seems to be on it, whether it's football, wrestling, track or NJROTC. Greenaway clearly likes to stay...

Crazy things happen on spring break, but what happened to Erin Bubley is totally insane. Crazy doesn't do justice to her extreme makeover from Erin Bubley, Niles North role model,...

Opportunity knocks in the most unexpected places. For Joe Funk, it tapped last November at Morris during one of the most painful moments in his three-decade love affair with Joliet...

It's tough to be Mr. Mom when you want to be Mr. Football. That used to be Johnathan Jackson's dilemma. As a grammar-school kid with a single mom and three...

Football glory has been a long time coming for St. Francis de Sales. No one knows that better than Tom O'Connor does. No one knows better how much it means...

Gary Korhonen is still a nervous wreck. The Richards football coach is still a worrier's worrier, fiddling nervously with his rosary beads during games and adding tooth marks to his...