Bernie Lincicome

The fraud of the fight is not the ranting Oliver McCall, a man clearly in love with being almost somebody. The fraud is with Larry Holmes, who once wept over...

College basketball is the coaches' gulag of sports. Even the toughest wardens have to share the prison. Jim Harrick has done his time, done it double as the latest in...

The return of baseball deserves no applause. It ought to ask permission to be allowed back into our lives. But it will not. It will assume that we are as...

UCLA's Tyus Edney has the ball. Of course he does. Edney is about as large as one of Bryant Reeves' thighs. Reeves is the Oklahoma State center they call Big...

Once again scholars and athletes-in the case of UCLA's George Zidek, even the same person-of college hoops have gathered in this moldy outpost of America to determine not only a...

When it all means something, in a month or so, none of Michael Jordan's 55 points will count. Except in some unoccupied corner of John Starks' mind. They're going to...

Don't smile, Cinderella. There is no way to make this pretty. A closeup of the East Regional winner, the least of the Final Four, requires a very long lens. From...

It should have been the exclamation point on I'm Back! The punctuation is still pending. Michael Jordan will never feel more welcome anywhere else than the United Center, the roar...

`And now. From North Carolina. . . ." Don't count on the rest of the introduction being heard. I figure Chicago will lose it about the second syllable, and this...

For those minding the details of Michael Jordan, The Sequel, the first truly Jordanesque moment came at 11:18 of the third quarter, a hammering slam dunk from a backdoor feed...