Barry Temkin

Oscar Ortega was overweight and out of shape before he met cross-country. Isidro Garcia had punctuality issues, and neither he nor Cesar Mendez cared a whole lot about their grades...

The NCAA has stirred up a hornet's nest in its fight against American Indian nicknames. The Illinois High School Association has no plans to get stung. "I don't think we...

Cully Payne is too young to drive and too young to attend an R-rated film without Mom or Dad. He has yet to participate in a regular-season high school basketball...

Cully Payne is too young to drive and too young to attend an R-rated film without Mom or Dad. He has yet to participate in a regular-season high school basketball...

Talk to Mark Schneider these days, and words such as bizarre, strange and unbelievable seem to keep popping up. It sounds like a chat about the Bears' quarterback quandary, but...

The Oak Lawn boys cross-country team will go a long way to make a difference. On a recent Friday, the Spartans were at Kankakee River State Park, about 50 miles...

J.D. Donohue misses playing football so much it's killing him. You can't tell that simply by watching him on a practice field. As the Rolling Meadows senior tutors players who...

We had Jon Scheyer leading his Glenbrook North basketball team to an improbable state title days after his coach's mother died. We had Morgan Park's Alexandria Anderson winning her second...

Tony Vercelli's life reads like some quaint 1950s youth sports novel. It's the one about the three-sport star who grows up in a small town by the river, has the...

Oak Park's baseball team had been warming up for about 30 minutes when a lone figure emerged from the locker room and jogged toward the Huskies' dugout. Last-minute uniform issues...