Bernie Lincicome

Reluctantly, I accept the nomination as final word on politically incorrect sports symbols. It is a thankless job, but someone has to do it, and I cannot deny that I...

He's Mr. Bear right now, Erik Kramer is. He's nibbling around Luckman and Lujack. His job is to win football games, instead of merely not lose them. This is an...

Winning football games at Northwestern is becoming routine. Celebrating needs a little more work. Take the goal posts, for instance. No one did. Still standing. As unthreatened after the game...

The Northwestern football bandwagon is getting crowded. Standing room only, as a matter of fact. Somebody is going to have to get off. The only fair way to decide who...

The team of your childhood lasts forever, especially when it is the Cleveland Indians. The past is all there is. For 41 years, the memory has been of Willie Mays...

Football is not figure skating, no matter the resemblance to the Bears trying to make an open-field tackle. And football is not diving or ski jumping or any of those...

All I can figure is that O.J. Simpson has lost my number. He was always good about calling. Once or twice a year he would let me know how things...

For baseball to be an afterthought it would have to first be a forethought, a condition baseball successfully avoided in its truncated excuse for a season. Not caring about the...

In the Chicago Yellow Pages are listed 378 dealers who sell couches. This does not include cots, lawn furniture and chaise lounges, any of which should be put along the...

Life in the sports pages is safe. O.J. Simpson should never have left. Here in sports you are a Cub fan or a Sox fan, American Leaguer or National Leaguer....