Bernie Lincicome

How bereft of spice is Chicago sports when the return of an old coach is a big deal, even when the coach is a lost treasure like Phil Jackson? "A...

Still, Karl Malone will be in the Basketball Hall of Fame before any and most of the assorted and younger bodies he declined to play basketball with Sunday. In what...

The youngest of them, Kobe Bryant of the Lakers, announced that the next generation had arrived, and so they had, most of the significant ones collected here for the NBA...

Some things you suspect, some things you guess at and some things you just know. It always is discouraging when someone such as Ken Griffey Jr., who already has everything--wealth,...

Disgraceful. Unconscionable. Bummer. Boy are our faces red. Not only did the U.S. of A. fail to reach the America's Cup for the first time ever, but none of our...

Any apology I might make to Dan Hampton on behalf of my brethren in the sportswriting/Hall of Fame voting fraternity would be meaningless. But I make it anyhow. Sorry, Dan....

When John Rocker is finished with baseball, and maybe he already is, his act will play in a lot of places. Just for an audience unhappy with New York and...

Game of the century, Ma. None of the 33 Super Bowls in the last millennium were as seat-squirming, as breath-holding, as plainly unambiguous, as last-moment suspenseful as the first Super...

All signs are for a crummy Super Bowl. Undistinguished, anonymous football teams. Bad town. Lousy weather. Picnic food. This place is not a destination, it's a reprimand. Madonna bailed early....

It is just as well that Dick Vermeil has not puddled up this week because his tears would have frozen to his cheeks and how silly would that look? A...