Bernie Lincicome

Those who consider the Cubs' baseball season now meaningless miss the point entirely, which I will get to shortly. Or, in the words of the old shortstop philosopher, it's a...

Comparing indignities, Scottie Pippen would seem to have the edge on Phil Jackson, although with Michael Jordan yet to be dissed, there is plenty of room for worse. Offering Jordan...

Gloom comes later, October most likely, November auspiciously. The world for now is as cheery as the day, and the day is the last day before Platteville. Training camp is...

As insults go, this one is not a rivalry amplifier, not that the Cubs and Cardinals need to be encouraged. This is something that did not happen, more than something...

With another pro football season about to bivouac in sweat swamps across America and Wisconsin--often the same place--we find there are, conveniently, just as many answers as there are questions....

Hypocrisy is to boxing what linen is to the Ku Klux Klan, pardon the comparison. On second thought, don't. The difference between a bite to the ear and a punch...

History is the least provocative rival. History is the leader in the clubhouse, waiting smugly, its feet up, its smile satisfied. History is musty memory, and someone else's, like an...

Even before Boris Becker decided to make it his final Wimbledon moment, it was grudgingly determined to be the match of the tournament. This was a conspicuous consideration since it...

Speculation that Melanie Molitor chose Karol Hingis as a tennis sire will endure unless their daughter Martina changes her name to, oh, Lulu or Penelope. There never has been, as...

The United States is in crisis. Says so right here. Not your give-away-the-last-jewel-in-the-empire kind of crisis, but serious nonetheless. Someone named Richey Reneberg has lost in tennis to somebody named...