Here’s a sports bucket list certainly not to die for
Sports is not immune to the current fashion known as "The Bucket List." Here's mine. I am always ready to help. St. Andrews: Let me tell you about the Old...
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Are the Bears the worst team in the NFL?
Training camp is the NFL's refrigerator magnet season, a replica of the real thing, but entirely decorative and of limited use. For the Bears it is, as usual, a mixture...
Real or not, golf’s future rests on Jordan Spieth-Rory McIlroy rivalry
The whipsaw of golf affection now offers Jordan Spieth as the heir to all that Tiger Woods has abandoned. Just a few minutes ago it was Rory McIlroy. Golf is...
Lincicome: White Sox-Cubs series is an overdone stunt
The time when a baseball game between the White Sox and Cubs has any importance is all illusion. The annual artificial taffy pull between Chicago's halves — or have-nots, as...
Stuffing the All-Star ballot box a time-honored tradition
This is the column about how I fixed the baseball All-Star Game. That's an exaggeration. I only fixed the National League starting lineup. And probably not that, but I certainly...
It’s too bad Pete Rose never will get his just due
Pete Rose is old news and getting older. Just look at him. He looks like a faded, balled-up old newspaper someone once used to pack away grandma's china. Rose has...
Blackhawks’ dynasty? There are worse curses
The question of whether the Blackhawks are a dynasty will be answered when the question no longer needs to be asked. Here's what we know. It's close enough for Chicago....
American Pharoah wins Triple Crown, and inevitable sniping begins
The time it took for us to be reassured that American Pharoah is no Secretariat was longer than it took the horse to win the Belmont, but it was quick....
Outrage over international soccer scandal rings a little hollow in U.S.
We always have known that down the way of soccer lies madness, or at least Celsius and the metric system, pretty much the same thing. Relief comes from the reassurance...
With Derek Jeter gone, search for the Face of Baseball illusory
It has come to my notice that baseball needs a new face. Why this is so is not clear, nor even if it is so. Baseball needs a shave, that...