Barry Temkin

If mutual need means anything, Brian James is the perfect basketball coach for Hinsdale Central. Central needs stability in its boys program. James needs stability in his basketball coaching life....

The first thing Nancy Brettman wants to know as you settle into a chair in her cozy southwest suburban home is what in the heck you're doing there. It's not...

If anyone deserves an epilogue to his high school basketball career, it's Tyrone Kent. Twice now, misfortune has stolen what should have been a glorious final chapter of a stage...

A messed-up shoulder is not on anyone's wish list, but it was probably the best thing that ever happened to Nick Persino. The Elk Grove senior gymnast damaged a rotator...

Abraham Lincoln once said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." He said it here, in 1858, in the Old State Capitol Building. A mere 147 years later, you wonder...

Ruairi O'Connor always dreamed of playing for Florida State, but he never dreamed he'd be doing it now. Instead of his senior baseball season for Oak Park, O'Connor is playing...

Larry Welton's basketball career is almost indescribable, so let's allow the facts to speak for themselves: - 1997-98: Welton is cut from his junior high basketball team as a 7th-grader....

Wrapping up winter: - Glenbrook North is the best basketball team in the state, but the best team doesn't always win and the Spartans almost didn't. In the wake of...

Herman Reeves' athletic career makes about as much sense as my NCAA bracket. Reeves wanted to play football, so he enrolled at St. Ignatius, which didn't have it. So he...

The Hotel Pere Marquette seemed the perfect place for a news conference to discuss the latest chapter in the uneasy athletic marriage between this state's public and private high schools....