Bernie Lincicome

John Chaney will be defined by days like this. He already has. Three times Chaney has coached Temple within one game of the Final Four and three times he has...

Time to step back and let the big dog feed. Yes, it has been very entertaining, these Rand McNally, Scrabble-name schools--Gonzaga for a triple-word score, yes!--the wrong Miami, the non-NIT...

And speaking of sophomore jinxes . . . Something similar happened to Michael Jordan, though perspective is no replacement for a working right elbow. Jordan injured his foot in his...

Encouragingly, boxing found a way to dishonor itself without using Mike Tyson. With Tyson once again safely incarcerated, there was some doubt that the sweet science could conduct a major...

Bob Knight stopped coaching his Indiana team with some 15 minutes remaining, down by 23 points to St. John's. Knight played with his socks, snapped his chewing gum, stared at...

If March Madness were a fairy tale--and who says it isn't?--Valparaiso coach Homer Drew would have passed along his glass slipper to Creighton, if not to Samford or, at the...

Although he always insisted on being introduced as the "greatest living baseball player," it could never be true as long as Willie Mays was alive at the same time as...

As far as is obvious, the only reason for the Big Ten basketball tournament was to determine if Michigan State should be taken seriously for the national title. Worse reasons...

And the last shall be . . . well, no worse than second, anyhow. Illinois will enjoy this eventually, I suppose, this jog through glory, this found weekend in Chicago,...

Remarkably, the Northwestern basketball players did not hoist coach Kevin O'Neill onto their shoulders or demand scissors to cut down souvenir nets Thursday at the United Center, though I wonder...