Bernie Lincicome

Call it the Maggette Rule. College basketball once outlawed the dunk because of Lew Alcindor, later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It may do something equally reactionary: return to the extinct concept of...

Basic baseball wisdom, according to Gary Gaetti: "You can't give up outs and you can't have enough runs. Ever." So instead of sweeping the mighty Indians, the Cubs get out...

A hustle play, Cubs manager Jim Riggleman called it without regret or a wink, hardly the adjective others might have chosen. Amusing, certainly it was all of that. The baseball...

Merely a spate of wrapped confections plopped onto Wrigley Field after Henry Rodriguez's three-run homer in the second inning Thursday. Play was not halted, but a few new cavities were...

Some things you suspect, some things you guess at and some things you just know. The quickest way back for the Bulls is not through the draft but through the...

Let's not let the Utah Jazz go without a moment of polite silence. No snickers, please. This is serious. The hearse is passing. The Jazz was Chicago's proxy, more or...

Baseball for dummies comes to Wrigley Field for a three-game series, meaning no disrespect to the bleacher creatures who need no special occasion to act like idiots. Sammy Sosa and...

This resurrection of Jeff Van Gundy may be Phil Jackson's best trick since he kept Dennis Rodman from making a hard landing on Planet Wacky. How briskly the Indiana Pacers...

As the Jordan Generation continues to dwindle, how odd to find standing taller than any of the others that old buzz cut from St. John's and the strolling Indiana Pacers,...

And just like that, Jerry Krause got everything he ever wanted. Russ Granik, the NBA deputy suit, was so tickled by the irony of the occasion that he fairly giggled...