Bernie Lincicome

The big news from the ConsolationUSA Citrus Bowl is the live birth of a killer whale, arriving the same time as Northwestern, the former baby whale of college football. As...

Pride, apparently, is perishable. Whatever the Bears were trying to get out of Sunday's season-concluding flogfest against Tampa, the easier Bay, what was most obvious is that they were trying...

The weather outside was frightful, but inside the United Center, it felt a lot like June. There is still a winter and most of a spring to get through, and...

Time once again for the coveted Bernies, the annual awards for special sports achievement that are designed to sum up just what kind of year it was. You Take the...

Goodbye to Soldier Field and all that, not an unkind bit of geography for the Bears this year, as long as the other team doesn't have a winning record, as...

The Heisman folks are very proud of their trophy, but never have asked for one back, so when Florida quarterback Danny Wuerffel turns out to be just another Steve Spurrier...

When a man's hair is blue, his words will be, too. I think that's in the Bill of Rights somewhere. Or if it isn't, it ought to be. Free-speech arguments...

Like a dog barking at a disappearing limousine, the Bears make what noise they can in what is left of their football season, full of loud regret and absolute insignificance....

On any given Sunday . . . The last great sports commissioner is dead and Al Davis isn't. The man who created football widows has made his own. The NFL...

So, that's what big-time college basketball looks like, a lot like DePaul, only quieter. I've heard more noise in a movie theater, found more electricity in shag carpeting, greater tension...