Bernie Lincicome

Among the original designs for the Heisman Trophy was one of a player tackling another. It was classic, contact football, equally depicting offense and defense. It was the favorite of...

Coaches are taking a beating in this Latrell Sprewell affair, not that most of them don't deserve a good choke and slap once in a while. Hard people, coaches. Bullies....

Once the games were classics. Now the players are. Between them the Bulls and Knicks have a fistful of players who could be president, in a chronological sense, including Dennis...

Generously, the Bears might be 3-11 right now had Rick Mirer been the quarterback for every game, which still hardly is the stuff of dynasty, barely the stuff of illusion....

The precise number of marbles for which DePaul and Northwestern were playing basketball Saturday afternoon is inexact, except to say that neither would need more than a watch pocket to...

Of interest to the White Sox faithful is not that the new South Side manager is reading "The Oath," by Frank Peretti, a tale of good, evil and secret sins--themes...

College basketball in December is a matter of trust, like used cars and blind dates. Going in, you believe things will work out better than they invariably do. In the...

The swell of support for Michigan's Charles Woodson for the Heisman Trophy is astonishing. Not since Steve McNair has there been anything like it. Or maybe not since Gordie Lockbaum,...

Bryan Cox is, after all, a calculating phony, which would not matter a bit if he were a better linebacker. Cox is also history in another month, so his antics...

Michigan's Charles Woodson wafted the long-stemmed rose under his nose. Sniff, sniff. Woodson offered his game souvenir to be shared with all noses in the room. Sniff, sniff. The room...