Bob Verdi

Billy Payne, head of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, said Saturday he is thrilled about how people have been "blown away by the kindness and Southern hospitality" in...

Take that, all you evil and insensitive mopes who are supporting a vicious campaign to eliminate synchronized swimming from these precious Summer Games. Get under one of those Olympic buses....

Given the option of a gallant and triumphant Olympic farewell or a contrived method to decorate his trophy case further, Carl Lewis has chosen the latter. Shame on him, and...

Well, I must have made a wrong turn somewhere. The boss assigned me to another event in the 1996 Olympics Tuesday night, and I got lost in a time warp....

Michael Johnson, who has many miles to go before he sleeps, will want to go out like this. So does Michael Jordan, for that matter. Ted Williams did, hitting a...

Sure, the lady said. Come back on the weekend to buy those T-shirts for your friends back home in Chicago. We'll have an even wider selection of children's sizes then,...

Bear with me, please. I begin this essay, but I can't guarantee that I will finish. I might have to rush off any minute now and leave you with a...

It appears at this point in the Mylanta Summer Games that none of the local bus drivers need be tested for performance-enhancing drugs, but chaos? What chaos? To be sure,...

Getting his Irish up, a Dr. Joseph Cummiskey paused at poolside, where he spoke only on the condition that he not remain anonymous. "I am the official physician for the...

They put their pants on one leg at a time in Greco-Roman wrestling, not that it matters. This is the anti-soccer, all hands but no feet, and they don't perspire...