Bob Verdi

All he wants is to put another football team from a new league in Chicago, and if Mike Ditka would like to run it or coach it or do both,...

Garry Kasparov probably got a bit carried away when he categorized his recent chess victory over a computer as a triumph for the entire human race. But, no question about...

It is Saturday night, hockey night in Canada, and the famous siren punctuates another victory. The Montreal Canadiens thrash the Calgary Flames 5-1. But many fans do not leave. Instead,...

Charles O. Finley usually was ahead of his time and occasionally behind in his payments. This, plus an apparent aversion to sleep, enabled him to leave his mark on baseball...

It was a bad week for three athletes under stress, but every once in a while, even these men and women we put on pedestals have to take a fall...

The more the Blackhawks win, the more difficult their decision becomes concerning Jeremy Roenick. Yes, he's available. Again. Still. Lately, the Hawks have been saying they're only a player or...

Feeling a bit older all of a sudden? You should be. Even one of this century's athletic giants has softened his stance on hardened arteries. Jack Nicklaus, who turned 56...

Michael McCaskey must be kicking himself through the uprights of life. While other NFL owners are unsafe at any speed, he remains stuck in neutral, buried under a heap of...

According to the art department at the Fox television network, that puck you saw leaving a red vapor trail is back at the laboratory for fine-tuning. If the thing doesn't...

Well, the Bulls are in big trouble now. They already have lost one game this year, and it's only February. This free fall, precipitated by Sunday night's Denver boot, might...