Bob Verdi

Marge Schott brought an elephant to Opening Day, and the Cubs played like they have no memory whatsoever of 1994. After eight months without real baseball, one surprise is better...

Rick Sutcliffe and Goose Gossage retired last week, all the better to avoid what shall unfold beginning this week. Baseball, a game they love, is back. We should rejoice. Instead,...

If the Blackhawks are running out of days in their quest to activate Bob Probert, the delay is not without reason or merit. The team and the man evidently have...

Relief pitchers are what they are because they can forget about a bad experience today and prepare for a better tomorrow. Scott Radinsky, otherwise an uncommon fellow, is no different...

Until further notice, you should resist all temptation to join that ever-popular trend of jumping on the Cleveland Indians' bandwagon. At least, give it until this weekend. "I should know...

It is not his unfinished symphony of 1994 that disturbs Frank Thomas, but baseball's precarious situation heading into the 1995 season. "Unless we settle, things are going to get worse...

After a strike that lasted 234 days, no World Series for the first time in 90 years, unparalled hatred among owners and players, fractured relations with fans and a solution...

A couple of months ago, after suggesting that Bob Probert deserved yet another chance to play hockey, we received a thoughtful letter from a Chicago mother. "If this privileged character...

To be part of the Masters experience, one needn't hit a golf ball far anymore, or at all. Just be here, as Byron Nelson was all last week, gracing the...

Ben Crenshaw carried a coffin the last time he wept like this, and now he buried his head in his hands to cry again. It was almost dusk, it had...