Bernie Lincicome

For Halloween the Bears cleverly came to a football party disguised as themselves, a team of screaming incompetence and diminishing prospects, entirely unrecognizable from the Bears who had managed to...

The Cubs actually got the man everyone wanted. There has to be something wrong with this picture. The Cubs outbid, outthought or outworked three teams for Don Baylor. The Cubs...

The necessity of losers never should be undervalued. Without losers, winners would be just beneficiaries. Without the Braves, baseball would be a raffle. Sure, anyone can win 'em all. Just...

This had to be his night, for time is strict about these things and Roger Clemens is nearly out of calendar. If not now, then never. This is where his...

This had to be his night, for time is strict about these things and Roger Clemens is nearly out of calendar. If not now, then never. This is where his...

A telephone rang in the middle of Yankee manager Joe Torre's press conference. "Get that," Torre said, "it might be George." Oh, sure, we all laugh now, but there was...

Pete Rose dishonors the company that included him Sunday night at the World Series. The public cheers and the public vote went to Rose, the martyr, as well as Rose,...

The world's most popular non-manager of several baseball teams--including Chicago's own Cyber Cubs--leans into the batting cage, intent on the job he is still paid to do, which is to...

The argument is beyond Chicagoans, as is the World Series, now 40 years in the past, as is actually winning one of them back when this vanishing century was in...

The Mets have worn the name "Miracle" like a second shirt for 30 years, since the original Miracles won the World Series. In more ordinary times, the Mets are the...