Barry Temkin

The basketball saga of Carl Richard may have a big ending. His father, also named Carl, and his grandfather both had huge growth spurts after high school, so the Richards...

Jerwin Callaway is happy to be home. It's always exciting to return to Chicago, not to mention play two basketball games in front of friends and fans, but the 6-foot-2-inch...

Evanston's basketball team is proof resumes aren't everything. Robert Locke Jr. was not an altogether popular choice as its head coach in 2005 largely because he lacked the on-paper credentials...

Strangers didn't quite get it at first when Molly Fausone mentioned she was on Loyola Academy's cross-country team. "I'd get kind of weird looks," she said. That's understandable considering she...

In sports, no phrase is more perfectly descriptive than "being cut." To be told there is no place for you on a team, even when you desperately want to be...

Payton's basketball team is all about second chances. It has a coach who is getting a second chance to lead the basketball program, a point guard getting his second shot...

Bryan Stortz seemed to have no reason to be that worried this season, but he was. The Lake Zurich coach had 16 starters back from the first team in school...

Illinois' greatest football dynasty deserves a great explanation, but Driscoll doesn't have one. Hey, no one's perfect, though Driscoll is as close to it as any program in the 34-year...

It's hard to describe the relationship Jimmy Orlowski has with shooting a basketball, but if you think about Johnny Appleseed and apples or Emeril Lagasse and food you're getting close....

Once should have been enough. One painful, unexpected ejection from the girls state quarterfinals should be all one group of basketball players and coaches should have to endure. Yet here...