Bernie Lincicome

Affirmed and Alydar had the greatest rivalry on any track without once saying a word. Oh, maybe nay. Or to put it another way to America's two greatest sprinters, Maurice...

John Husar woke me in the middle of a long Norwegian night and dragged me from the meager comforts of press housing outside into the cold and snow. What's the...

He is always nearby, sitting off to the side like a pile of boulders during any of Marion Jones' endless public responsibilities, or lurking behind, as much menace as he...

The ego is the last to go. Jackie Joyner-Kersee's legs went long ago, long before her one last kiss goodbye to track, field and the American heart. She passed on...

This is America's Olympics, after all, minus the tumblers and the beach volleyballers and the German national anthem. It is track and, as one old football grump once groused, the...

Effectively, only a day remains to vote a player from baseball's best team into the All-Star Game. Realistically, the only way a White Sox player will make it is to...

The end is only a pause, no matter that it feels like something is over. And it will be over Sunday after the White Sox once again meet the New...

My favorite pregame prayer story involves Bill Peterson, once coach at Florida State, briefly at Rice Institution, as he called it, and the Houston Oilers. Peterson inspired the Oilers in...

Jerry Manuel, a wise and alert man, did not humor my question. Did he think, I asked, his baseball team needed a name? "We have a name," Manuel said. "Chicago...

The hype for Sammy Sosa's autobiography proclaims that Sosa made baseball fun again and captured America's heart, news to anyone whose heart is a prisoner of, say, Ashley Judd or...