Bob Verdi

Pro football is still king, a situation that annoys us baseball junkies and should catch the attention of leaders within our former national pastime. The NFL will stage two conference...

If Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield are inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame next month--and they've got our vote--we can safely say that the ceremony will be the last of...

Hear ye, hear ye, disenchanted baseball fans of Chicago. Though refraining from big-ticket items on the market, the Cubs and White Sox send a message similar to what free agents...

It should come as no surprise to any Chicago sports fan that, three decades after embarking on an exhaustive search to find a replacement for Soldier Field, the Bears wind...

It happens all the time. You dial up someone who is ill with the idea of providing support, and in a matter of seconds, you find yourself on the receiving...

Alex Rodriguez, suiteless in Seattle, turns heads and stomachs throughout America with his contract demands. A superstar shortstop of age 25, he is the most desirable free agent ever, the...

Denis Savard, who follows the horses a little bit, was asked to guess what the morning line might be on him surviving Monday night's four-minute induction speech without shedding a...

Well, the Subway Series we couldn't bear watching is over, and we got through it, didn't we? The Yankees win again, all the stretch limos can return to home base,...

Here's a warning to whom it may concern, if indeed anybody cares about the sports sewer that exists on many of America's campuses: The next college basketball game you see...

As they turned out the lights on County Stadium Thursday night, Bob Uecker stood by a microphone near the pitchers mound, eulogizing this field of dreams. It was an unusually...