Bernie Lincicome

Football lesson for the week: All Bays are not created equal. Just as this Bears team is too new to know that it was not supposed to be that way...

The fringe can be a cruel place. Expectations are there. And hope. And for a brief, golden time, Northwestern football. How long did it last, two weeks? That's practically an...

When in doubt, look busy. If the Bears added a relic a week, or one after each loss, or just after losses in the division, there are enough old Bears...

It is not important to know who won in this NBA labor fandango, only that Michael Jordan lost. This is not as remarkable as it once was. Losing, I mean....

It is not yet Ali and Frazier, or Affirmed and Alydar, not Nicklaus and Palmer or even Connors and Borg, but it is getting there, this last-Yank-standing tennis rivalry of...

They met at the net, two winners, though Steffi Graf gets to keep her fourth U.S. Open title. They hugged. Monica Seles kissed Graf's left cheek, already wet with tears....

This is no longer tennis. It is opera, grand and soap. Monica Seles meets Steffi Graf. There has not been as ripe a confrontation between two women in this town...

Inevitably, Pete Sampras was going to get goofy. When a rivalry is between dignity and farce, as it is between Sampras and Andre Agassi, dignity has a lot more room...

He was there first. He was there before Andre Agassi. Before Jim Courier. And before Pete Sampras. He was barely 17 when he got there, and Michael Chang has been...

The Age of Salaam, however it turns out for the Bears, did not begin until 10 seconds were gone in the second quarter. To this point, Rashaan Salaam had been...