Bob Verdi

What you are watching now, or should be if you aren't, is real hockey. The San Jose Sharks and their fans still reel about what occurred in the wee hours...

My hero, Larry Brown, got another job last week. Granted, there are a lot of weeks when you could make that statement, including maybe even next week. But we're here...

This essay deals with schedules, and we would hope you think it is about time, or at least right on schedule. Human beings like to make their own schedules, but...

If you crave a basketball and hockey fix this spring, it appears you will be in a familiar local fix. When it comes to playoffs, the Bulls and Blackhawks generally...

Inasmuch as Tony Esposito has been gainfully retired for years, it would be too much to ask him to steal another game for the Blackhawks, who face another must-win assignment...

In the beginning, the prospect of sports mixing with politics on television seemed intriguing. All networks are in dire need of programming, even when people who write the cue cards...

While Roger Clemens was licking his lips on Capitol Hill, interrogators were so anxious for autographs, they missed a big story. No wonder it's called the oversight committee. During lobbying...

It says something about a man when, a decade after he left us, people still imitate him, toast him and yearn for one more mention of a slugger who swings...

That noise you heard was the 1972 Miami Dolphins falling over patio furniture as they literally break up their weeklong party celebrating Super Bowl XLII, in which the New York...

Woody Hayes, legendary football coach for The Ohio State University, was (in)famous for his 3-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. But before he put The Buckeyes on the map, he must have visited what...