Bernie Lincicome

Learning experiences should last a bit longer. Next year's champion should not be losing to a lower-seeded team in the second round of this year's NCAA tournament, not playing its...

It is just as well that Illinois basketball coach Lon Kruger is no longer at Florida, a place too far out on the edge of things. Kruger belongs in the...

Other than a couple of sore knees from being piled upon by huge and happy friends, Florida's Mike Miller reported that he would be fine for Sunday's Illinois game and...

How you gonna keep 'em in Lincoln Park after they've had Pig Pickin's pit Bar BQ with hush puppies? Big-time college basketball is just where DePaul and Pat Kennedy left...

My first encounter with Dan Marino, the quarterback, went roughly like this: "Uh, Dan . . . " "Not yet," he said. Marino was 22 then, his face as smooth...

Illinois' got next. DePaul has Kansas. Everybody's happy. By any sane estimate, the team to beat in the Big Ten next season will be Illinois now that Michigan State has...

Didn't we just do this last century? Or was it just last January? It was both, actually. Michigan State vs. Illinois, a basketball game in search of relevance. The question...

Kevin O'Neill brought the actual money figure up. Two million. Dollars. "I'd hang glide naked off Mt. Everest for $2 million," he said. That is to say, if there is...

Eventually Frank Thomas will get to defend himself with his bat, and with his glove, too, when needed. Thomas has no problem with that. Baseball is the game of fresh...

The first thing you learn about the all-grown-up White Sox is don't call them kids, even if they can play, which is still more slogan than truth, always was more...