Bernie Lincicome

Illinois coach Lou Tepper and I were both in the wrong place Saturday, and I would like to apologize to Northwestern. Tepper needs more than apologies. Tepper needs a quarterback,...

Bernie Lincicome "Age, energy and ambition are peaking in the Bears. This is true of coaches, players and schedule. If Dave Wannstedt has picked the right crew, this should be...

What kind of NFL season will it be? Don't get me started. On second thought. . . I predict Rashaan Salaam will trade a vowel for a new set of...

This season the NFL comes in round numbers, and that's not just Natrone Means and Nate Newton. For the 30th Super Bowl, there are now 30 teams contending, with not...

Showing up is 80 percent of life."--Woody Allen. In baseball it is a ticket to immortality. Never has showing up been a bigger deal than it is with Cal Ripken,...

Wild-card fever. I got it. I think. I could practically see it hanging over Wrigley Field Sunday. Or maybe that was just an atmospheric inversion. This is so new, it...

Panic, like a toothpick, is portable. It can be used anytime, but better only once. And this is too soon to waste it. The Bears may be the first team...

With college football about to leap cleats first into our summer, we are again happily amazed to find that there are just exactly as many answers as there are questions....

I suppose the new Chicago Rug Rats will use napkins too. Wipe their feet. Spit discreetly into hankies they've tucked into their cuffs. Bear weather will come with a thermostat....

"You know me," Mike Tyson said. "I'm a blood man." There was blood in the ring. Blood on the canvas. Blood on the ropes. It was left there by Joe...