Bob Verdi

Everybody makes mistakes, even the shiny new head football coach at Notre Dame. That does not mean Bob Davie is a lesser man. On the contrary, the manner in which...

Harry Caray can't wait for baseball to start again, but there's another season he has learned to love in his golden years. Christmas. Soon, he and wife Dutchie will leave...

Well, that was a nice college basketball season for Chicago, wasn't it? If only White Sox games were as quick. Even the Bears' drive to Super Bowl XXXI lasted a...

When he was young and carefree and really living up to his nickname, Fred "Boom Boom" Couples would have just gripped it and ripped it. But at the soggy age...

Tiger Woods has yet to play golf with Michael Jordan but would prefer basketball. Their paths soon will cross, and perhaps they should split the difference before the game of...

Thanksgiving. If you're reading this, chances are you're warm, well-fed or about to be, and not worried about whether you'll be able to find shelter tonight. You'll be surrounded by...

It feels more like a truce than peace, but it's a start. Better to fight the forest fire with a squirt gun than to fight not at all. Baseball fans,...

Baseball owners return here Tuesday, and oh, to be a fly in a finger bowl when these well-heeled entrepreneurs gather again to attempt fixing their broken game. Chicago tends to...

Gary Barnett's father, Leland, dropped dead of a heart attack at 57. Maybe that's why Gary Barnett said no. Or maybe Gary Barnett's wife, Mary, has become so used to...

Gary Barnett sounds like he sounded late last December, when he pondered the rest of his life between conducting practices for his Northwestern team before the Rose Bowl. He fidgeted...