Bernie Lincicome

The conversation was about money, how much Kerry Wood should be paid for becoming the next Doc Gooden, meaning only Gooden's good parts, of course. What to pay, how long...

Between drills and practice fields, Sammy Sosa paused to be famous. The world pressed up against a cyclone fence. Or enough of the world to be dangerous. "Sammy, Sammy, Sammy,"...

The last and most irregular piece of what should still be the Bulls has done his little freak dance for the folks on the coast, and they love it. Dennis...

Strange the things you see in the desert. Hot-air balloons. Brahma bulls on paved streets. The president of the United States. Frank Thomas with a first baseman's mitt. There was...

Now, that's more like it. None of this back-to-back prosperity for the Bulls. Winning streaks, even little ones, will ruin everything. Victory is the enemy. Not only does winning mess...

This was halftime of opening night of the 1997 playoffs, the season the Bulls won only 69 games, making them, to us experts on press row, vulnerable even to the...

Another baseball season is just around the corner, just behind the cactus and just beyond the palm tree. If spring training has started, there must be exactly as many questions...

Some things you suspect, some things you guess at and some things you just know. I will not say Toni Kukoc has become the Incredible Shrinking Man from the responsibility...

The San Antonio basketball coach, a dullard named Gregg Popovich, was asked how the addition of Dennis Rodman to the Los Angeles Lakers would change the balance of power in...

At last, someone familiar. Swish. Steve Kerr for three. Swish. Steve Kerr for three more. "Broke our back," Bulls coach Tim Floyd said of Kerr doing what Kerr does. Floyd...