Bernie Lincicome

It has been widely reported that 2016 was the best year ever in sports, an estimation based largely on the curse-killing Cubs, the LeBron James-inspired Cavaliers, the buzzer-beating Villanova NCAA...

A confession. I am a sucker for Rivalry Week. Sure, it has its own phony optics. Professional logos illustrating false enthusiasm. The name itself is a gimmick, Rivalry Week, as...

The first thought upon hearing that the Bears' occasionally available Alshon Jeffery had been suspended for taking performance-enhancing drugs is that they didn't work. The second thought was, of course,...

America was ready for the Cubs, and darned if the Cubs weren't ready for America. They're everywhere. Who's that down there in Disney World? Cubs. On late night shows, afternoon...

Reports of a decline in football viewership creep from the heaving diversion of the recent World Series, some of it the fault of baseball itself, which is usually the NFL's...

No more Cubbies. I suppose it's now Cubz. Or Kubz. Something millennial and mean, something tough, something a winner can strut. From the brink to the peak, from dismissal to...

I always have thought the Cubs logo with the little bear inside the "C," the one that seems to be a beast on the prowl, looks more like an orphan...