Barry Temkin

Chicago Public League schools have become a dominant force since Marshall became Chicago's first state champion in 1958, but private schools have contributed to the city's basketball legacy as well....

The Illinois High School Association has unveiled its drug-testing proposal ... sort of. After Assistant Executive Director Beth Sauser presented a proposal from the IHSA's sports medicine advisory committee during...

Practice won't start until Monday, but Perspectives South Loop's boys basketball team already has pulled off an upset. It has hung on to Al Rapier. This was no slam dunk,...

Jason Johnson pops up in the most unlikely places. He plays his college football at Georgia, not exactly a popular athletic destination for a Chicago Public League athlete, particularly one...

Hockey wasn't fun anymore for Travis Bordine. He had played it and loved it since he was 7 years old, but it wasn't nearly the same without his father, David,...

In the saga of Lamont Bryant and Marshall boys basketball, two things have been lost in the glare of a lawsuit, a player threat to boycott the upcoming season and...

Northern Illinois and Wisconsin shared a story line heading into their non-conference game Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium. If it had been a soap opera, you could call it "The...

The Illinois High School Association has gone fishing. Well, not quite yet, but a state bass-fishing tournament may be coming to a lake near you, perhaps as part of an...

James DeSanto, Gerardo Gonzalez and David Oropeza have never won a football game at St. Joseph, and it's likely they never will. Calling them losers, though, makes as much sense...

Their coach hoped Billy Mills would inspire his runners to win a championship. Mills wanted to inspire them to do much, much more. He has nothing against winning. In 1964,...