Bill Jauss

If the play of special teams decides Saturday's showdown between Gateway Conference tri-leaders Western and Southern Illinois, Ashlee Frazier of Western could be the game's key performer. Frazier, a 5-foot-7-inch,...

Hundreds of high school, college and post-college runners will compete in Lincoln Park Saturday in Loyola University's 28th annual Lakefront Invitational cross country meet. The field will include 52 college...

Eric Lutkin and his Illinois-Chicago soccer Flames didn't create quite the stir Walter Eckersall and his University of Chicago Maroons did 95 years ago when they ended a five-year 55-game...

Vic Clark was out of coaching last season, working in private business in Idaho. One day he read in the NCAA News that Rockford College was going to start a...

In the early 1990s, coach Pam VanderWeyden had about 70 runners join her Lyons Township girls cross-country program each fall. "That's when we thought we were gigantic," VanderWeyden said. Since...

Steve Parris, a 14-game loser this season, continued the Cincinnati Reds' pitching mastery over the Cubs with a 3-0 victory Sunday night before 38,787 fans at Wrigley Field. The Reds...

Kevin Tapani said the sore knee that forced him out of Friday's 6-4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds will not cause him to miss a turn in the rotation. Kerry...

For most of the day Sunday, the best competition at Grant Park was found inside the field house. While John McEnroe and Mats Wilander waited out the intermittent rain, the...

Mike Sirotka called Tuesday's ninth inning "interesting . . . but I knew they'd get the job done." That was more faith than some of the 18,542 fans in Comiskey...

The struggling Cubs can recapture one exciting element of their magical 1998 season Monday at Wrigley Field. Tenor David Flagg will sing the national anthem, just as he did to...