Barry Temkin

This time of year, when high school kids talk about getting away from it all, they usually mean Cancun or the upper deck at U.S. Cellular Field. Melissa Kroll has...

`Do you think I can be a major-leaguer, Dad?" It is a question a million 9-year-olds have asked and a million fathers have tried to answer, one as American as...

There are two very different sides to Andre White. There is White, the Zion-Benton basketball star--self-assured, competitive and tough. Then there is White, the person--a quiet loner, the son of...

Elk Grove was just seconds away from its biggest girls soccer victory ever, and Jen Buczkowski was in tears. These figured, of course, to be tears of joy, but they...

Jovica Grbic is good at starting from scratch. The Hinsdale South senior is one of the top shot put and discus performers in the state even though he didn't compete...

John Baier and Rich Wiener need help. They need help scheduling games, officials and buses. They need help checking grades, finding coaches and processing the mounds of paperwork that grow...

Wrapping up basketball: - We used to talk about who would be the next Michael. Now we wonder who will be the next LeBron. In the end, the scariest part...

LeBron James did what LeBron James does best Monday night. He put fannies in the seats. The 6-foot-8-inch megastar from Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary has done it from Philadelphia to...

Voters have plenty to think about these days. There's the war in Iraq and the stock market, not to mention the latest plot twist in "24." But when many of...

At first it seems hard to argue with Myles Brand. The NCAA's new president was in town Tuesday, complaining about a college athletic environment in which the term student-athlete often...