Bob Verdi

Ray Meyer, the legend, did not attend the lynching. While son Joey was being pushed into stepping down Monday as coach of DePaul's Blue Demons, his dad had the door...

Denis Savard could have been excused for feeling a bit melancholy upon arriving at the United Center late Saturday afternoon. Defeat in Game 6 of their playoff series against the...

Denis Savard took off his gloves to shake hands, fulfilling a ritual unique to hockey. Defeat always sears the soul, yet this Saturday night had an eerie finality to it....

What's fair is fair. If a Colorado doctor gets to cut on Chicago's Russian, then it's time for a Chicago doctor to operate on one of Colorado's Russians. We nominate...

It's getting late now, and what's fair is fair. If a Colorado doctor can operate on Chicago's Russian, then a Chicago doctor should be allowed to cut one of Colorado's...

If indeed that loathsome and despicable traitor, Dr. Louis Kolb, slipped classified information to the Colorado Avalanche, it's not working. Those stupid pills he gave the Blackhawks last week in...

Break up the Cubs? A fine idea, and not only because they interrupted their funk Sunday at New York, thereby relinquishing any chance to become something truly special in American...

It's not the altitude, it's the attitude. When the Blackhawks began this Stanley Cup tournament, they played like chickens without heads and wound up with Denver omelets on their faces....

You might have noticed that Jackson T. Stephens was conspicuously absent Sunday evening when television switched to Nick Faldo holding Tiger Woods' coat. Augusta National's chairman turned his seat over...

This is a story about race, but it is also about a race that wasn't. Tiger Woods won the 61st Masters on Sunday by 12 shots, the greatest margin of...