Lincicome: Bruce Jenner always will stand out from the crowd
Honestly, I don't know what to make of Bruce Jenner, but then he has given more thought than anyone else about what to make of himself. Jenner was my first...
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Is LeBron James the greatest? Not yet
I suppose no matter who the opponent is, LeBron James is playing against Michael Jordan. Maybe that's as good an explanation as any for why James has been the Bulls'...
NFL justice: Tom Brady and Patriots guilty till proven innocent
I see by assorted headlines, blogs and tweets (ah, modern journalism, you half-cracked fool) that the Patriots cheated their way to another Super Bowl title, that Tom Brady is a...
Boxing is like a zombie in a cummerbund
Boxing can take a punch. Always could. Will again. Can't shame it, can't kill it, can't ignore it. Defying explanation and indifference, boxing lives, a zombie in a cummerbund, no...
Clueless NBA needs to jazz up its lifeless playoffs
I see by the calendar and basic cable that we are now somewhere past the beginning of April Idiocy. I just made that up. April Idiocy. Could be April Insanity....
The NFLing of America; cue the wretched excess
The East School Players Draft, as we used to hold it on our gravel grade school playground, was simple. Pick Jim Riggs first and give him the ball. The rest...
Lincicome: The lonely twilight of Tiger Woods
Twilight and dawn look pretty much the same, neither dark nor light, one a closing, the other an opening. Tiger Woods has had his dawn. We all saw it. It...
Chicago sports’ comforting unchanging landscape
As I was saying ... Some things you suspect, some things you guess at and some things you just know. The wonderful and enduring thing about Chicago sports is that...
LIKE COLUMNISTS, PITCHERS BETTER HAVE THICK SKIN
Sports columnists are sensitive souls, misunderstood, underappreciated, frequently sober. We come, we go, and occasionally one of us pitches for the White Sox. The rest of us do not hold...
IF IT’S AUGUST, WRIGLEY MUST BE MEANINGLESS
August is Jason LaRue time. August is two hours with Daniel Garibay. August is the novelty of using an all-purpose cheer, "Way to go, Junior," when the Junior hits a...