Bernie Lincicome

It can't be that the NCAA is embarrassed by this Final Four, though any final game that includes Syracuse ought to at least cause blushes, but nowhere among the game...

The Madness of March has come down to a sloppy assortment at the end, not a Final Four after all but a Terrific Two and a Curious Couple, the most...

They're still going to call it Opening Day, I suppose, though it does not mean what it did, what it should, what it must again. When major-league baseball begins this...

Syra-whose? Syra-what? Syra-why? They wore the victory nets around their necks, John Wallace and Lazarus Sims did. Otis Hill belly-bumped Jason Cipolla, and Marius Janulis, from Lithuania, screamed in perfect...

The Dennis Rodman apology, unlike wedding dresses and coffins, should not have limited use, but should, like duct tape and the twist tie, be adaptable. None among us, after all,...

I had half expected to see Illinois AD Ron Guenther out here among the winning basketball coaches, or see him turn up in one region or another, looking to hire....

He has outlasted them all, Mark Grace has, lasted longer even than Ryne Sandberg, who took a hike because he could. When Sandberg came back, there was Grace, still at...

In the Big Ten they don't know the meaning of the word quit. Or quarterfinals either. And they're having a lot of trouble with the phrase Sweet Sixteen. The Big...

The cry to unify boxing is not loud enough to be heard outside the exclusive head of promoter Don King, and is, in any case, a job roughly as interminable...

Mike Tyson makes a dull enigma. He wears mystery like lint on a tuxedo, and it is a poor fit. Tyson was much more intriguing as a brute and a...