Bernie Lincicome

Stubbornly, baseball always has insisted to Don Zimmer that he was a manager. Zimmer kept believing it was true, his conviction causing lasting regret in such outposts as Boston, Texas...

Maybe the Inuits have the best idea. Go off on the ice alone, let nature take its course. Now that's a no-frills retirement. Does leaving require more than a wave...

A city of choices, Chicago. We give you the White Sox. Any takers? Six-game winning streak, pony rides in the parking lot, clowns in the breezeway, $1 tickets at the...

Football weather, brisk and clear. Football players? Not quite so clear. Three of the five Bears quarterbacks were running a simultaneous drill. Three passers, three receivers, three footballs in the...

ESPN has catalogued Walter Payton at No. 39 among the greatest athletes of the century, a purely subjective opinion that has also placed, so far, two racehorses in the top...

Wayne Gretzky did it right. That's the proper way to go out. That's the way Michael Jordan should have gone, even in a loss, in a meaningless schedule-ender, but in...

And for the first trick out of their brand new bag, the Bears draft a bunch of conversation pieces, which is better than the usual odd-sized linebacker. It really doesn't...

The poet e. e. cummings said that a million statues aren't worth one naked woman. His team must have already had a left-handed power hitter. Considering the success of the...

When Miami Heat coach Pat Riley observed that anyone with a brain knows what is going on in Chicago, I am sure he did not mean to exclude Jerry Krause...

The cold, metallic press-box voice announced the end of Jaime Navarro. "The line on Navarro: two-and-a-third innings pitched, eight hits, seven runs, all earned, two bases on balls, one wild...