Bob Verdi

It appears that any chance of averting a baseball shutdown rests with Oprah and Geraldo and Sally and all that gang. Only if they walk out immediately might the games...

It was a beautiful Sunday for baseball, too beautiful to be the last of its kind for the summer. But the strike was everywhere. In the locker room at Comiskey...

(About 50 years ago, the legendary comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello performed a baseball routine for Broadway audiences. It was called "Who's On First?" Here's an updated...

Yes, but what is the owners' deadline? Now that major-league baseball players have issued Aug. 12 as the moment at which they will stop honoring us with their presence, rest...

Can we talk? In the real world, Jordan and Israel join hands. In the playpen, it's Jordan and the Celtics. But not unless the Bulls accept the generous proposition of...

Alan Rothenberg, chairman of the dear and departed World Cup, do you promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? "I do." In searching for...

Harry Caray had neither cleared his throat nor warmed his chair Friday when he knew he was home again. After a brief sabbatical from the Cubs, he yearned to hear...

With Bob Probert out there wanting to be wanted, the Blackhawks have nothing to fear but his winding up in another uniform. There will be plenty of room for Probert...

Nick Price, who endured eight years in golf's black hole, was looking now at a white cup about 50 feet away on the 17th green at Turnberry's Ailsa Course. Born...

God save the Queen. The British Open is beginning to feel like the Bob Hope Classic. Sun and fun and where's the Coppertone? The usual storm alerts at Turnberry's Ailsa...