Barry Temkin

Tracy Robinson couldn't figure it out. He would look at his 6-foot mother, Darlene, and his 6-foot father, Tracy Sr., not to mention uncles who were at least 6-6. He...

To be a great option quarterback, you have to be a master of deception. The last few days, however, Mark Venegoni was mainly trying to fool himself. The Carmel senior...

The circus has left West Aurora High School. The phone no longer rings every six seconds in basketball coach Gordon Kerkman's cramped, subterranean office, with media seeking wisdom or college...

Emily Wierenga is nervous about playing basketball but scared not to play. She worries because she has undergone four operations in the last 2 1/2 years, two of them on...

Rolando Garcia has become an expert about what really matters and what really doesn't count. The St. Ignatius senior learned that when a close friend died two years ago at...

Justin Williams used to have a big excuse for not playing much basketball for Thornwood. It was a 6-foot-11-inch, 290-pound excuse named Eddy Curry, who as an All-American center three...

High school sports is a good place to look for perspective, and there were few better days to pursue it than Thursday, Day 3 in the "Saddam Hussein Story," starring...

Wrestling was the perfect sport for Chuck Farina. It's a sport where size doesn't matter, but toughness and tenacity do. And Farina, the former Marine and Leyden coach who died...

College athletic recruiting is wonderful, terrible, noble, corrupt, honest, byzantine, ego-inflating, humbling, rewarding and infuriating. It pits professional salesmen against teenage psyches amid a morass of rules and regulations. It...

It is halftime at Westmont, and the home team is halfway to another lopsided defeat. All but one of the school's 20 players trudge to a nearby baseball field for...