Barry Temkin

This was more like it. For Chicago Academy and Raby, two new kids on the Chicago Public League football block, this felt like a football game, not whatever it was...

Daniel Cutts was tired. He was tired of losing, tired of being the target of hallway taunts after his team lost and tired of the lax work ethic in the...

Jian Yu Yan was in an entirely new world. Actually, he was in two of them?the United States and U.S. football. And if the sophomore from China was not exactly...

Jian Yu Yan was in an entirely new world. Actually, he was in two of them--the United States and U.S. football. And if the sophomore from China was not exactly...

THERESA RAUB PROSPECT Track & field, cross-country, gymnastics CLASS RANK: 1 of 495 COLLEGE: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY ROLE MODELS: My parents, David and Judith; my brothers, Tim and...

The Oak Lawn boys cross-country team wants to reach across an ocean to lend a helping hand. What better way to do it than to run across a state? That's...

They were the believers. They were the two who swore from the start that the dream of going Downstate wasn't impossible at all. They were the ones who insistently told...

Gordie Gillespie, college baseball's all-time winningest coach, is recovering from a broken pelvis he suffered May 26 when he slipped on a wet spot in a Joliet store. University of...

Play It Smart is in trouble, which is not smart at all. It would be just plain stupid if one of the sharpest attempts to make athletes better people faded...

The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference has the right target but the wrong weapon. The CIAC recently decided that a football coach whose team defeats an opponent by more than 50...