Bernie Lincicome

This is why they were here and on their feet, clothed in layers and mittened so that their applause sounded like someone beating a bath mat. Ken Griffey Joooooon-ier, as...

Michigan State's Mateen Cleaves has had the picture in his mind since he was a kid back home in Flint. "Me standing there holding one championship trophy and Magic Johnson...

Fittingly, here in Hoosierland, I announce the death of "Hoosiers." R.I.P. Not just the movie but also the notion, the phony inspiration, the outright deception, the bright, shining delusion that...

Public dreams are the hardest. Few climb Mt. Everest, but no one climbs in secret. Declared ambition only invites failure. And envy. How much easier to come from ambush, or...

OK. Have we gotten that out of our system? Not as easy to get rid of as miso soup and boiled eel, sure, but using Japan as the Land of...

Here's an idea. Maybe we can let the Japanese run their season opening sumo tournament at the United Center. The place is going to be empty in about a month...

Wisconsin basketball coach Dick Bennett calls it "touching a dream," being included among the Final Four college basketball teams in the land, surely the first time Indianapolis has ever been...

To turn the fight song around, No, Wisconsin. So the plow horse makes the Derby field. The karaoke baritone gets to sing with the Three Tenors. Someone has put a...

Purdue can see Indianapolis from here. "It's amazing," senior forward Brian Cardinal said. "We've worked hard to be so close. One more game. Forty more minutes and we go home...

The bizarre John Starks interlude ends to no one's satisfaction, as do most things concerning the Bulls, Jerry Krause and veteran basketball players. Starks now joins an elite list of...