Bob Verdi

Are you ready for a story that begins by asking something besides whether you're ready for something besides some football? Stay tuned. In due time, this hysteria shall pass. Until...

When the Cubs and White Sox get together, you can throw out the record books. While you're at it, you can throw out the history books, too, because they make...

Just about every Bob Knight critic this side of Butch Carter has weighed in on Tuesday's big interview, and not surprisingly, the vote has achieved virtual unanimity. Most of the...

Question: What do Mark McGwire and Tiger Woods have in common? Answer: They're both playing with a new golf ball. I know, I know. I devoted some of this space...

It's not only the baseball that's wrapped too tightly. It's the baseball players. The season is seven weeks old and our national pastime has already gone mad. The White Sox...

Once upon a time, the Blackhawks had a minor-league team here. They were the Dallas Blackhawks of the Central Hockey League. Whenever a player came up through the system and...

Talking about weather accomplishes nothing, but we waste time and energy doing it in Chicago anyway, as if civic duty demands that we add another layer of paranoia to our...

Riddle: What has 18 legs, no arms and has lost baseball games in three different countries the last three weeks? Answer: the Cubs. Now here's the real brain-teaser. As the...

With all this smoke in the air, it is unclear how Bob Knight can best extinguish all these brushfires around him. He could quit as Indiana basketball coach, which is...

Sending the Cubs to Japan is probably not what Bud Selig meant by realignment, nor is bringing them back. But as baseball enters this new millennium, the commissioner faces old...