Bob Verdi

This is 1999 and we are supposed to be civilized, so it is not fashionable to kill the messenger anymore. For that, we who report sports in Chicago give sincere...

Whether Cade McNown can accomplish mission implausible and lead the Bears from their black hole of hibernation, only time will tell. Nobody around here really watches the clock anyway. The...

We're No. 11! That's where The Sporting News ranks Chicago on its updated list of America's best sports cities. My question is, are we supposed to laugh or cry or...

Now that the job action initiated by major-league umpires has done a Jean Van de Velde and fizzled miserably, perhaps their union should mull over another tactic to secure the...

So, Ricky Byrdsong is gone, slain in the prime of his life by a depraved merchant of death. This was no way to go, walking a neighborhood street with one's...

It's a strange way to scratch our 173-year itch, but if there's one thing we are when it comes to sports here in Chicago, that's the operative word: strange. No...

Dan Hampton, do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? "I do. When have I not told the truth? Why would you even...

Here's an idea that will serve both baseball and the other national pastime. Planned parenthood, exercised to its utmost practicality, means you should raise your son to be a pitcher....

What terrific timing. On this holiday weekend, with Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa together again at Wrigley Field, baseball hits another home run. Baseball hires Jerome Holtzman, no players to...

Exactly where and when audience participation became part of America's sporting scene is unclear, but the Cubs are wise to crack down on vagrants in Wrigley Field's bleachers. This problem...