Bernie Lincicome

Smugly sits the championship crown on Arizona's fat head. Say, All-American point guard Mike Bibby, how would a Final Four showdown against No. 1-ranked North Carolina set with you? "We...

Lon Kruger was going to allow them to finish it off, the five seniors who already had done more than they should have, a group that had earned a Big...

Sympathy is not part of any of the madness of March, certainly not from Illinois, which has been snickered out of the NCAA tournament too often not to take anything...

It is all prelude, the NBA season is, all dress rehearsal and shadowboxing. We are still 20 games from the good stuff and 20 more from the best stuff. Treasure...

Way to go, Big Ten. Way to outsmart yourself. This Big Ten tournament thing is looking more and more like a bad idea. Without the tournament, the Big Ten looked...

The first loss in the first game of the first Big Ten basketball tournament is not only an enduring distinction, but also so typically Northwestern. "A team that has never...

Sports is all about pointspreads and posturing and overpaid pinheads. We all know that. Any game, yours, mine, scuffles to survive the petty cynicism of those who play it, those...

March Madness, college basketball's desperate season, comes with convenient labels for those of us who have, with careful planning, managed to avoid everything up until now. This has not been...

So long, and thanks for all the eel. Nothing this otherwise undistinguished burg has done deserved to have the world tracking up its floors and cluttering up its streets and...

The larger purpose for Zenkoji Temple might have been all along to be a CBS Olympic prop, but this ancient place does promise other stuff, such as enlightenment, for example,...