Barry Temkin

The applause is still ringing in Marty Hickman's ears. From e-mails to editorials, from coaches to physicians to just plain folks, the reaction to the Illinois High School Association's decision...

Englewood's basketball team has no business being this good. It has no business being 12-2, no business being No. 16 in the Tribune rankings and no business being an outside...

Ben Wetherbee has traveled an awfully long way to play a short basketball season. It is about 9,000 miles from his home in Sydney, Australia, to his temporary home in...

Julie Chappetto didn't know whether Mt. Carmel or Richards would win their basketball game Tuesday night. What she knew for certain was that either way, she couldn't win. If Mt....

Here's 2008, seen through a cracked crystal ball: Jan. 22: The Illinois High School Association announces the results of its survey of member schools regarding random drug testing of athletes...

My favorite story Dex Jones was a stranger to stability, so the then-10-year-old Decatur youngster assumed he had seen the last of Dan Peters, his Big Brothers Big Sisters mentor,...

Morton basketball coach Tony Martinucci and his players would like to deliver the following holiday message: We actually can play this game. They realize many fans may not know this,...

Matt Claver knows he should be happy. The Wheeling senior knows he should be grateful just to be alive and functioning and not the mess the medical world once expected...

Matt Claver knows he should be happy. The Wheeling senior knows he should be grateful just to be alive and functioning and not the mess the medical world once expected...

Jim Payne always wanted his grandchildren to follow their dreams. For Cully and Katlyn Payne, that includes basketball, so it's not all that surprising the two young stars changed high...