Barry Temkin

King basketball is on its way back, but it's a whole new ballgame. The best evidence of both is 6-foot-1-inch sophomore Taylor Pikes, the school's first high-level college prospect since...

At times it's hard to tell if the volunteer football coaches at Wheaton Warrenville South are crazy about football or just plain crazy. Take, for example, Kevin Aister. Besides coaching...

"Friday Night Lights" opened last Friday. So did "Mr. 500." The former is a movie about the madness of Texas high school football. It's at a theater near you. The...

Most athletes are embarrassed to be cut from a high school team. Ashley Adamczyk is proud of it. Of course, most cut-day casualties give up the sport in question, trying...

In cross-country, Brent Carius is his own man. This could easily be otherwise. The Waubonsie Valley junior's father, Al, after all, is a legend in cross-country circles. Since becoming North...

If this were a fairy tale, the saga of Phil Zerante and his on-again, off-again football career would have ended with the words, happily ever after, when the Lake Park...

Sherron Collins is a three-sport star in a one-sport world. That world is the Chicago Public League, where basketball standouts only occasionally venture outside the gym. For years, a popular...

It was going to happen eventually, but not this way and not this soon. Tyler Knight was supposed to replace Sean Price as Maine South's quarterback, but next August, not...

It had been the toughest of Friday nights for Downers Grove North's football players. They had played 48 minutes of grinding, physical football against visiting Hinsdale Central and seemingly had...

Adam Wallace has figured out what really matters in the long run. Competing for yourself, he now understands, will only get you so far, even if the race covers 26.2...