Bob Verdi

One can only wonder what they were thinking in Athens on this sultry Friday night. Not Athens just up the road. The real Athens, in Greece, where the modern Olympic...

Item: Major League Baseball's All-Star Game last week drew a Nielsen rating of 13.2 and a 23 percent share of the audience. Item: The NBA All-Star Game last Feb. 11...

It's just as well that Cigar wasn't taking questions upon his arrival in Chicago on Friday. I wouldn't have known what to ask, anyway, not after spending all this time...

It is not that peace, harmony and a spirit of male investment bonding finally came to the Bulls at 3:17 p.m. Friday. There always was an aura of good feeling...

Striving for greater public acceptance, Major League Baseball staged its annual midsummer All-Star classic Tuesday night in Philadelphia and a hockey game broke out. Actually, bloodshed occurred even before the...

Will the Blackhawks get cold feet on ice over Jeremy Roenick? Starting clear at the top with President Bill Wirtz, management pledged months ago to match any opposing team's offer...

It was as close as a Super Bowl. Steve Stricker was the NFC, and the rest of the golfers felt it coming, just like the Buffalo Bills. Stricker completed his...

While Nick Price tapped in to complete a third-round 73 at the Motorola Western Open Saturday, his caddie was elsewhere on the 18th green, pacing off distances with purposeful strides....

What would happen if they held a golf tournament and none of the players showed up? This vexing issue was raised, only half in jest, during Friday's second round of...

John Daly, who was fined and suspended during his previous fling as enfant terrible of professional golf, is under surveillance again. That's the unfortunate news. The better news, for the...