Bernie Lincicome

Nobody said it was going to be easy. No. Wait. Everybody said it would be easy. And maybe it will. Maybe that's as shaky as it will get for the...

If he's a linebacker, it's a bad arm tackle. But for a hoops goon like Miami's Keith Askins, it was sufficient. It stopped Michael Jordan from driving to the basket...

Caught the Dennis Rodman TV show the other night. Edgy. Goofy. Sleazy. Embarrassing. You know, like Rodman plays basketball. I understand it ended in a cake fight. I couldn't take...

While it may not be accurate to blame Miami for Michael Jordan lying there prone in front of the Bulls' bench like a sack of citrus, Dallas does get blamed...

It will become basketball again when Pat Riley and his thug tactics are no longer involved in it. Until then, the Bulls will need to watch their backs and other...

All the important advice in life must be reduced to T-shirts, or what's the use? Scrawled on bedsheets. Stenciled on bumper stickers. Stitched on baseball caps. Have a nice day....

There are sure things. Potholes, cellulite, fruit flies. And there are sure things. The Bulls in 15. Anticipating anything other than a Bulls championship is for idiots and Alonzo Mourning....

Double jeopardy is useful as a game-show gimmick, important as a legal concept, but downright wicked as the NBA playoffs. Not that the Bulls should be complaining. That's my job....

Draft day is when you find out whose fault last season was. We learn, not to our surprise, that in the case of the Bears, it was Jeremy Lincoln's fault....

Mediocrity most likely will preclude the Bears from having a moral dilemma, and a good thing, too, because they have enough of the ordinary kind on draft day. Drafting 18th...