Bernie Lincicome

According to the calendar and cable television, college basketball is back, which means that no one speaks in a normal tone of voice until after the Final Four in Indianapolis...

Progress is in the pain. Losses hurt more. Losses are resented. Losses are cursed. When losing hurts, blame follows. Bad calls. Bum officials. Stupid coaching. Thoughtless players. Curtis Enis. The...

From time to time boxing is discovered to be disgraceful, invariably by politicians. This causes much dismay between elections, or for a long weekend, whichever is most convenient. The Evander...

Some things you suspect, some things you guess at and some things you just know. Assuming that boxing will not find another way to disgrace itself is as risky as...

First the good news. Will Perdue has not lost a step. On the other hand, that's like saying a warthog hasn't lost its pantyhose . . . The Bulls are...

It will be Walter's Game forever now that the Bears have won it, the 159th rendering of pro football's most storied border war. This is, of course, absurd in any...

They are all inadequate, all the gestures made to honor Walter Payton and bless us for making them: the Bears for their jersey patch, for the 34-yard line at Soldier...

Happy honeymoon, Don Baylor. Buying a year of grace or two at more than twice the price of Jim Riggleman is the cost of pretending, and cheap enough. The Cubs...

Top-secret inside sources tell me Jerry Krause has been hard at work getting ready for the next big Bulls' moment, the 2000 NBA draft lottery. Krause has been practicing brand-new...

Walter Payton always got up. Always. For 13 years with the Bears he took every hit, survived every collision, confronted every menace, shook off every tackle, always gave better than...