Barry Temkin

They told Courtney Carson he was nothing. Some said he was worse than that. Throughout Decatur, Ill., and beyond, people tossed around the words "gangster" and "loser" as though they...

The most significant event in Hales Franciscan's short-lived suspension from the Illinois High School Association wasn't the game its basketball team couldn't play Thursday night or the one it could...

It didn't take Jaron Eanes long to figure out he had entered a whole new world of Lake Forest Academy basketball this season. That became clear the first day of...

George Dergo referred to himself as a simpleton Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Anyone who watched his Morris football team win the Class 6A football title 14-9 over Normal Community knows...

It has been a quiet preseason for the Neuqua Valley basketball team, and dull never felt so good. If the spotlight is elsewhere, that's just fine with coach Todd Sutton...

It has been a mess almost from the beginning, so it figures that the saga of the Illinois High School Association multiplier would end badly. It very well may end...

Loren Jackson never seemed totally comfortable coaching basketball in a conventional setting. Edgy, driven and ultracompetitive, he wanted to do things his own way. Now he is, and then some....

The game is never over when the clock says it is if you are a Prospect football player. The Knights proved that again Friday night after they had defeated host...

It seemed so simple. All Kijaune Leach had to do to ensure his shot at a bright future was to scrawl his name across several sheets of paper Wednesday morning....

As the basketball season nears, here's a helpful hint for high school players: Keep your shirt on. This doesn't mean control your temper . . . although you'll have to...