Bernie Lincicome

I know way too much about Kerry Wood's right elbow. So I can't help staring. It is wrapped in a blue cut-off sleeve, while the left elbow hangs bare and...

Sammy Sosa, as is usual with deities, is in the details. So, we start with Sosa's first plate appearance of the spring, a semiofficial at-bat for the Lumber Company, a...

Here are some press releases I expect to be crossing my desk any minute now. To allow the working press time to cover other aspects of the White Sox's spring-training...

Frustration is a considerable improvement on numbness, and DePaul is getting on the general nerves much more often these days, undeniable notice that college basketball is again alive and detected...

Accusations flourish that television has hit rock bottom the same week that Mike Ditka is rehired as a studio expert and tour guide. This is one of those too precious...

Insignificantly, the NBA trading deadline passes and Flotsam and Jetsam--that is, John Starks and Hersey Hawkins--remain Bulls, more disheartening for them than for Chicago. Bulls fans are too numb both...

Two decades later, the world has changed. Hockey, alas, has not. Tuesday was to be a great day for hockey, the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Olympic victory at Lake...

Come in late on the Tiger Woods tumult and you catch him committing his first double bogey of the century, his first four-putt since the butter churn was a household...

Don Baylor can only ruin Sammy Sosa. How can he make Sosa better? If Sosa does not hit 67 home runs this year, any corrections will be pointless. Is Tony...

The phone call came from Italy and not collect. This was not a good sign. The connection was astonishingly clear, because in my experience, Italian telephones have tended to resonate...