Bob Verdi

It was the most important start in Alex Fernandez's career, but he failed to come up big, not that he didn't look the part. Suffice it to say that since...

If the White Sox are serious, if Ron Schueler is sincere about waiting until whenever to get it right this time, if the people running this franchise want both a...

So much for that big-bang theory. For six months, Seattle's Mariners spread terror throughout the game. Their lineup created havoc, under a roof or a blue sky, in two leagues,...

Randy Johnson is in a league of his own as a towering mound presence, yet even he can lower himself to admit the significance of Sunday's assignment. "What it does,"...

In this city that never sweeps, the omens, like the panhandlers, are everywhere. It is October, traditionally the favorite month for baseball's most storied franchise, the Yankees. They won the...

Chris Chambliss says he knows nothing, so he just might have the right stuff to be next White Sox manager. But seriously, folks. I come from Chicago, a city that...

Hockey wants so badly to be like other sports that it is trying the worst way possible: by joining Olympic overkill. The NHL season begins Wednesday night, slightly earlier than...

And furthermore . . . Baseball's second season will begin Tuesday, which means a temporary reprieve from all those empty pleas about how the sport must realign geographically or perish....

Once upon a time, the Ryder Cup matches offered pro golfers from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean reason to gather for a few rounds of friendly competition, followed by...

Everything you really don't want to know about the Bears and are absolutely afraid to ask until you remove that brown bag from your head at season's end: Question--What emergency...