Bob Verdi

If the Cubs think that shipping Larry Himes from Chicago to Arizona will tempt Ryne Sandberg to leave Arizona and return to Chicago, it won't work. Firing Tom Trebelhorn doesn't...

Oliver McCall says he doesn't want to get in Don King's hair, a good idea because you never know what you'll find there. But the day will come when the...

My fellow farmers, the magic number is 1995. That's when we won't have to apologize for Big 10 football anymore. Just after New Year's Day, Penn State is going to...

Hockey's dispute, like baseball's, is all about bread. Are you sitting down? A primary reason why the National Hockey League isn't playing games is because nobody believes anybody, the Tribune...

Michael Jordan is not surprised his pal Charles Barkley said it first. Barkley has a way of voicing opinions early and often. "He's right, though," Jordan assured. "Charles usually is....

It is shortly before game time. Michael Jordan will not play this shiny day, so he is relaxed in the Scottsdale Scorpions' dugout. He is also starved. "Where's the food?"...

Michael Jordan's love for baseball is unconditional, and that has to infuriate all those self-appointed guardians of the game. When Jordan retired from the NBA at this time last October,...

If Dennis Garber is a voice in the wilderness, maybe it's the rest of us who can't see the forest through the trees. Dennis Garber is the principal of Hoffman...

In October of 1969, with the Cubs and their whiplashed fans still assessing damages of a dreamy summer gone astray, little did Chicago imagine that another implausible mission was building...

Not since the winter of 1985 has this region been so gripped by football fever, and you all know how thoroughly the Bears cured that epidemic in Super Bowl XX....