Bob Verdi

Payne Stewart has become the desert fox. He won his third consecutive Skins Game Sunday by collecting $280,000. Not bad work if you can get it. Stewart also has matured...

Surrounded by three youngsters who owe him everything, Arnold Palmer stuck a tee in the ground Saturday and won nothing. If only cheers were currency. Whenever the 64-year-old Palmer plays...

It's too late for John Daly to participate in the ever-popular Skins Game, golf's annual paean to capitalism. The fun for $540,000 profit begins Saturday at Bighorn, and the tournament's...

If whistles were difficult to hear this Thanksgiving in the Silverdome, there was absolutely no problem finding symbols. Richard Dent delivered one to the Bears' locker room. A turkey, well-plucked...

If you're a sports fan, you don't need to be told about how to give. You could coach giving, because you give until it hurts. It's your money, after all,...

At last, Michael Jordan has found a way to avoid crowds. Hold a press conference to discuss land development. Compared with retirement revelations, real estate announcements constitute something of an...

Finally, an underprivileged member of Chicago's labor force lashes out at the rotten working conditions here. While others have failed or been afraid to speak, Curtis Conway steps forward. "The...

I have in my hands the greatest argument yet against a college football playoff. It is Monday's New York Times, featuring a computer ranking of the nation's top 25 semipro...

At age 25, with his progress being measured by quantum leaps and so much happening so fast, Frank Thomas needn't be steeped in baseball history to comprehend what Wednesday night's...

So what is most amazing of all current athletic events? An unidentified flying object interrupting a heavyweight championship in Las Vagas? Hardly. Any city that embraces Wayne Newton and Siegfried...