Bernie Lincicome

Well, the Blackhawks certainly wasted no time in continuing to stand still. Barely a week after replacing one empty suit with another, the Hawks added a new hat rack, Mike...

To its credit, the Associated Press only included a single animal, Secretariat, among its Athletes of the Century, although Dick Butkus did finish 78th behind No. 1 Babe Ruth. ESPN...

The Bulls had no special plans for the third Saturday in January anyhow, other than giving away some beer hats. Charles Barkley will not be playing basketball in Chicago then...

Before the Big Ten for Michigan State there is the Great Eight in Chicago and unbeaten Kansas. And soon after that there is Arizona down in Tucson. Before either of...

The encouraging news from another Packers pounding of the Bears is that Cade McNown finally found his helmet, even if he was another fourth-down failure by Curtis Enis and 13...

This is where Jim Miller came in, against Green Bay, with the engorged Gilbert Brown lurching onto Cade McNown's lower limbs. Without that bit of chance, and not even a...

Ideas hatched at 3 o'clock always sound better than they are; the platypus and egg nog lattes come to mind. No matter that this one was at 3 in the...

College basketball, like in-laws and winos, arrives early and uninvited. We've all heard of March Madness. This is November Numbness. Too soon to matter, too obvious to count. One week...

Chris Boniol was the first Bear off the field. Under the stands, up the ramp he sprinted, ahead of his teammates, in front of whatever demons had bedeviled his right...

There they sit beard by clipboard, very much at home as Lakers, Phil Jackson and the rest, Tex Winter and Jim Cleamons, Ron Harper in the lineup, Chicago just an...