Bernie Lincicome

They never will be Ali-Frazier, Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan won't, or Evert-Navratilova, or Woods-Els, no matter how the world goads them or wishes it were true. Rivalries are the...

Alberto Tomba promises this is his last Olympics. He promises that this is his last ski season, so on behalf of the world, I would just like thank Tomba for...

Frank Carroll, the coach of Michelle Kwan, is discussing the breakthrough with his figure skater. "Makeup," Carroll says. "It took some convincing of Michelle's parents to let her wear lipstick....

The hockey sticks went first, up in the air. And then the gloves. The helmets. Those were just tools, unneeded now. Joy is best served raw. A.J. Mleczko found an...

Olympic excuses are the best. There is nothing like them anywhere else in sports. Olympic excuses are . . . well, Olympic. Take death cookies, for example. Only the Winter...

It is possible that Harry Caray will yet outlast baseball. Maybe he already has. The game is not the game it was, but Caray is as irresistible as ever. Caray...

The winner dressed as if he were shilling for a new Ben and Jerry's flavor, banana Holstein or chunky giraffe. The bronze medalist pretended to sword fight phantoms, just like...

Check it out. Snowboarding gets a hero and a martyr in one dude. Totally awesome. Ross is the boss. Ross rips. Ross rules. Not only did they give Ross Rebagliati...

Message to Illinois football coach Ron Turner from Olympic gold medalist Picabo Street: "Tell him I still want to sing the national anthem in Champaign," Street said. "Tell him I've...

Poor Canada--the hockey team, not the country--though in every practical way they may be considered the same. "You didn't answer the question," the young woman from a Toronto news crew...