Barry Temkin

Jon Astreides sure knows how to make an exit. If the Class AA state meet Friday and Saturday will be the end of his track and field career, the talented...

If you listened carefully Saturday at St. Viator, you could hear the air hissing out of the Class A girls soccer tournament. St. Viator and Vernon Hills, which won sectional...

Nicole Williams won't need a tour guide at the girls state track meet. Neither will Lauren Sopcic. Each will make her fourth appearance in the high jump Friday at Eastern...

There was never much doubt Carl Hamming would succeed in sports. The only question was whether he would star standing up or sitting down. If he had accepted a doctor's...

Whether it's car-pool lanes, veggie burgers or face lifts, trends seem to start in California and work their way east. That was worth remembering May 6 when the California Interscholastic...

It had lasted just 70 minutes. That's all the time it had taken for Clemente's state badminton debut to begin and end. Its six players had lost all eight of...

A three-point play: - Illinois and Wisconsin don't have much in common, as any Bears or Packers fan can tell you. When it comes to public schools vs. private schools...

I always suspected I was born too soon. That was mainly because I had to survive my teenage years without ESPN and the Food Network, but now I have another...

People like to say it's not what you know, but whom you know. Sometimes, however, it's both. That's the way it was for Ryann Hendricks. Because her mother happens to...

Mary Kate Casey always dreamed of playing college ball. In that dream, though, she was dribbling a basketball, not using a stick with a shaped net pocket to catch and...