Bernie Lincicome

So impressed with the literary majesty of Mao Tze Tung and Arthur Ashe is Mike Tyson that he has their faces tattooed on his arms--Mao on the right and Ashe...

Allow me to pause while there is still a reason to and say a few words about one Peter McNeeley, who, if he were not fighting Mike Tyson on Saturday...

Mike Tyson has become a pronoun. This is the residue of serving three years in the slammer for rape. Not everyone becomes a pronoun. Tyson is the "He" in "He's...

Unlike John Kruk, the postman doesn't know the meaning of the word "quit"--though I have stumped him with "hirsute"--so despite heat-related misery and occupationally chronic bad knees, he keeps doing...

The timing is probably off, but symbolically it is right on. About the same time that Mike Schmidt was apologizing to baseball fans in Cooperstown for not appreciating them during...

My choice of college was clear, even though I had a scholarship to Ohio University, a fine school that thinks of itself as the Harvard of the Midwest. But like...

Some things you suspect, some things you guess at and some things you just know. These days the most dreaded words in training camp are: "The coach wants to see...

Monica Seles' escorts marched under the bright seaside sun from their casino to the Convention Center next door, two-dozen red-and-gold costumed Roman centurians. They would line the way for Seles'...

On this Rashaan Salaam thing, you've given it a lot of thought. All the way back from Platteville, you've turned it over in your mind. That and wondering just how...

The chances of Shakespeare and the Bears sharing a simultaneous corner of Wisconsin would seem as unlikely as an NFL playbook being written in iambic pentameter, but training camp is,...