Bob Verdi

Some really emotional Olympic fanatics accuse me of having a blind spot about their little track meet, but that's just not true. I'm not blind. I can see. I'm just...

Take the Olympics, please. Basketball and hockey will be starting soon, too, the later the better. And here comes Mike Tyson again, just when you thought it was safe to...

It comes as no surprise to this reporter that George W. Bush called one of my lodge brothers a naughty name the other day. The upset is that Bush took...

Just when you need a good laugh, along comes the NCAA. Our latest chuckle is about shoes and gumshoes. Seems that a number of athletes at the University of Wisconsin...

How sad to learn that with the 2000 Olympic Games only a few days off, there remain thousands of unsold tickets in Sydney, where the odor of scandal and controversy...

Half the problem with sports in Chicago is that more fans tend to express a half-empty instead of half-full attitude, not that you can half-blame them, considering how precinct teams...

Please excuse my tardiness. When I received the grim news of John Husar's death, I was in Scotland for a golf tournament. I imagined I would mourn his passing in...

Doesn't anybody want to come here and play anymore? When did Chicago go from the City of Big Shoulders to the city with bad breath and dandruff? Or is it...

Jerry Manuel visits Wrigley Field this weekend, not that you're likely to pick him out of a crowd or hear him through the din. The quietly effective White Sox manager...

Dave McGinnis really should be shockproof by now. After a decade of working for the Bears, then watching them from a distance, followed by his brief starring role in a...