Barry Temkin

John Katsikas plays baseball. John Katsikas is a switch-hitter. So far, so good, except we're talking about two different sports here. At the plate, the Addison Trail senior hits strictly...

Mustafa Alavi is not a cross-country star. The Waubonsie Valley senior isn't even among his team's top seven runners, the ones who get to compete in the big invitational and...

Welcome again to the wonderful world of sportsmanship, the twilight zone of high school athletics. We offer for your consideration a football coach who showed good sportsmanship but was almost...

Chris Gasiorek has always been a kicker. At St. Patrick, the only question has been how he would get his kicks. He arrived at the Belmont Avenue school as a...

Like many a teenager, Justin Brown has had a hard time figuring out exactly who he is. This identity crisis, however, has been more athletic than psychological. At first it...

It's hard to tell who's gaining more from the splendid, if unlikely, relationship between the Sandburg boys cross-country program and its most celebrated alumnus. It could be Tom Graves, who...

Jim and Julie Kirchner could not have expected the chaos that has accompanied the recruiting of their second-oldest child. They could not have expected what took place July 1, the...

Jim and Julie Kirchner could not have expected the chaos that has accompanied the recruiting of their second-oldest child. They could not have expected what took place July 1, the...

For the Illinois High School Association, drug testing seems to be shifting from if to when. Until now the IHSA has relied on educating athletes about the dangers of steroids....

Myles Brand needs a hand. The NCAA president told an audience at Hampton University last week that the NCAA may be ready to work with everyone from the NBA to...