Barry Temkin

So what kind of school year was it? It was a year so bizarre that the Chicago area's most publicized prep sports event--Glenbrook North's infamous powder-puff football game--wasn't a real...

It's hard to believe that Jennifer Hynds ever had to struggle in the classroom. It's sort of like finding out that Marion Jones needs a 10-meter head start or that...

The 1960s was the decade when people got tired of waiting. African-Americans got tired of waiting for civil rights. Women got tired of waiting for equal rights. Environmental and consumer...

Candace Parker is a peach of a basketball player. Forty years ago, the Naperville Central star would have been a peach, period. And if not a peach, she might have...

J.W. Smith's departure from the Chicago Public League is both sad and exciting. It's sad because after 40 years in the city's public school system, he didn't get to leave...

The grand experiment in Proviso District 209 basketball appears to be over, at least for now, and there's quite a mess in the laboratory. Chris Head and Troy Jackson, the...

Challenges and Megan Rossi have a knack for finding each other. Sometimes the challenges seek her out. Other times she goes looking for them. It has added up to a...

One down, one to go. The Illinois High School Association lowered the boom on Hales Franciscan's basketball program Thursday, and Chris Head likely is next. The IHSA expects to rule...

They ran the inaugural Bud Swanson 4x800-meter relay Friday night, and you wished like heck they wouldn't have. You wished that Harold "Bud" Swanson had been at the DuPage Valley...

Even in basketball, your best move sometimes is no move at all. The Illinois High School Association's basketball advisory committee wisely followed that strategy Wednesday, keeping the status pretty much...