Bernie Lincicome

The British are in the middle of what they are calling their Summer of Sport, an optimistic preview to what is inevitably the winter of their discontent, starting with another...

Some things you suspect, some things you guess at and some things you just know. The impending free agency of Michael Jordan is not a big deal, and that is...

The town looks as festive as a plywood window, and even if the curtains get up in time, this doesn't promise to be much of an Olympics with style. The...

We're choosing geezers down here for the Centennial Olympic Games, although so far no actual centenarians, unless Ruth Wysocki is lying about her age. Carl Lewis jumped back into the...

Not much of a distinction this, to be the rare coach or manager not let go by Jerry Reinsdorf, but Phil Jackson has never seemed a grasper. The most astonishing...

The last duty is to be adored, a painless redundancy for the Bulls, notwithstanding both Phil Jackson's and Jerry Krause's designation of the worshipers at Grant Park as "you people."...

Now that it was over, the Bulls' fourth NBA championship trophy in six years seemed oddly inadequate, like another bauble on a Dennis Rodman earring. This one is no larger...

Missing mostly, besides Scottie Pippen's jump shot, is any detectable sympathy for the Bulls' plight, if being a hammer about to smash the exposed thumb of the Sonics can be...

The Bulls return to Chicago with a serious case of diminished majesty, not the worst thing to have, not like needing to win two games on somebody else's floor. That...

The Bulls return to Chicago with a serious case of diminished majesty, not the worst thing to have, not like needing to win two games on somebody else's floor. That's...