Bob Verdi

Everything you sort of wanted to know but didn't think to ask about a game the Northwestern Wildcats just missed by 3,000 miles this year. Question: If Ohio State's Buckeyes...

What's this? Business and civic leaders form a committee to ponder the Olympics for Chicago in the summer of 2008? It must have been the eggnog, and in the holiday...

Well, that smell of egg-nog in the air can mean only one thing. It's time to select our Sports Person of the Year. The task becomes more difficult with each...

In a year when accountability was a big loser in sports, one team that belongs down there with the worst of them is the Bears, who also took their share...

The way it used to be, James Mullen would have his buddies over for this holiday weekend to watch the games on TV. Bears, Bulls, whatever. His wife, Athena, would...

Did you see what I saw? Evidently yes, many of you did. The Bulls thriller Tuesday night posted a staggering 24.5 rating locally, their fifth-highest audience ever for WGN-Ch. 9,...

Like Andrew Golota, the Blackhawks are aiming too low. Bob Pulford, who generally manages this erratic hockey team, says the Hawks are one player away--a strong, young, playmaking, goal-scoring center...

At this point in baseball's free-agent shopping frenzy, giving the Cubs a dandy relief pitcher such as Mel Rojas for Christmas is a lot like getting me a hair dryer...

Only a decade ago, Jim McMahon was being portrayed as crazy and dangerous for wearing a headband. At least he got the commissioner's name right, but still some very mopey...

Bob Knight, coach of the Indiana Hoosiers, do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? "Of course. Next question." Your team is off...