Bernie Lincicome

Conspicuously missing from the podium and the wall behind it was any reference to the place. Not a trace of purple was in camera view. So generic was the setting...

Astonishingly, Great Eight basketball has been around long enough to have its own record book, like Monday Night football, short track racing and the Starr Report. It was an easy...

Introducing your new Chicago Bears. From left to right, I give you Whozit, Howzat, Whatzizname and Huh? Oh, I suppose they have real names, but no use bothering to learn...

And now directly from a quiet corner in the Georgia Discodome, we bring you the latest on the condition of the once proud pro football franchise from Chicago. "There is...

Three times Ohio State was penalized for excessive celebration, which, against Michigan, is generally considered impossible. There is little happy and there is big happy, and while 30,000 or so...

A vote for Sammy Sosa is a vote for joy, a vote for fun, a vote for old-fashioned good cheer and, just maybe, a vote for chewable cartoon vitamins. No...

Confusion over Dennis Rodman's wedding was to be expected because it would not be immediately clear whether Rodman was the groom or the bride. At Rodman's previous nuptials he was...

All the buzz in Greater Motown has been about the merger between Chrysler and Daimler-Benz AG, makers of the Jeep and the Mercedes-Benz. The locals are enchanted by the idea...

Big games in the Big Ten get noticeably smaller when they have little to do with the national title, or, at the least, Ohio State. Such is the curse and...

Coaches are not doctors, though they can play them in the press. Mike Ditka once griped for 10 weeks about Jim McMahon's lacerated kidney, as if McMahon had put himself...