Barry Temkin

Cutting kids from high school sports teams is like death, taxes and the Bears' quarterback futility: as popular as a 3-foot pothole and seemingly unavoidable. Athletes, of course, hate cuts...

The battle against poor sportsmanship is nothing new. I got a sense of how old it is when I checked a Tribune database to see when I first started writing...

The story of the great Thornton Fractional South basketball revival would appear to be one best told by the numbers: 1-24 last season, 19-3 now. That, however, really can't do...

The Illinois High School Association Board of Directors agreed Monday to conduct its new drug-testing program in all sports and to test more frequently in sports in which the use...

For Lana Rukavina, it was about time. It was about time she was back leading her team in a big game. It was about time her Wheeling team finally got...

Sam Spitz had a quiet football signing day, but that wasn't necessarily bad. When it comes to recruiting, the senior from Young has had more ups and downs than a...

The incidents have occurred like a rolling drumbeat, or perhaps more accurately, like the repeated thuds of a series of left jabs. The sport is not boxing. It's basketball, though...

Clare Liston will never be the basketball player her sister, Tricia, is. Tricia is one of the top players in the state as a Fenwick sophomore. Clare, a senior, doesn't...

Jason Vicich understood the skepticism. The DeLand-Weldon girls basketball coach understood the doubt he encountered when he faxed game results to area newspapers. Why, after all, would anyone who hadn't...

Tom White keeps a diary for each De La Salle basketball season. Every year the Meteors coach buys a fresh notebook, and each season that notebook seems to run out...