Bob Verdi

News: Bulls finish season 13-37, miss playoffs. Views: But everybody's happy, and that's what matters. When the Bulls were winning championships, they were Team Turmoil. All that stress. So much...

This is just a guess, but not such a wild one. Somewhere up there, in the big WGN television booth in the sky, Jack Brickhouse and Harry Caray are struggling...

Showing excellent promise as a potential team owner, Michael Jordan already asks for discounts. Obviously, all his years hanging around Chicago sports moguls were not wasted. In fact, Jordan had...

Whatever Michael Jordan did for basketball, Wayne Gretzky did for hockey, over a longer period of time and occasionally even better. That's not a popular position to take in Chicago,...

Leave it to baseball for diversionary tactics. Sunday night the Padres open the regular season in Mexico, where a lot of fleeced fans in San Diego wish the squad would...

So here we sit in our bubble, clinging to the principles of Journalism 101, warning readers about the sports sewer. But there are days when I wonder: Exactly whom do...

With any luck, the trend will continue and two of the haughtiest governing bodies in sports--the National Collegiate Athletic Association and International Olympic Committee--will implode before our very eyes. The...

Perhaps ignorance is bliss, but I hereby plead disinterest and thus excuse myself from the widespread panic about whether Sammy Sosa reported to spring training in shape only to challenge...

It's the economy, stupid. George Steinbrenner, principal owner of the New York Yankees, understands this. Which is why he gladly attached Roger Clemens to a seemingly unbeatable roster of the...

If you're brave enough to admit that you're still a hockey fan in Chicago, you probably felt a rare bolt of optimism the other day when the Blackhawks showed some...