Bonnie Desimone

This was the goose egg that laid the golden point. Seldom has so little meant so much to the U.S. national soccer team, which ended a 60-year, 17-game skein of...

Stefan Effenberg returns to the United States, the scene of his intercontinental crime, this weekend. He contends he already has exorcised the demons that contributed to the derailment of a...

Major League Soccer will dip its first toe into Lake Michigan with an exhibition game here next month. The Los Angeles Galaxy will meet Mexican club champion Guadalajara Chivas at...

For a fellow who once guaranteed a second consecutive NBA title way back when, Miami coach Pat Riley has certainly become more circumspect. Riley, then coach of the Los Angeles...

No one took a bumpier, chillier ride through Major League Soccer's inaugural year than the Denver-based owner of the Colorado Rapids. Yet despite a season in which the Rapids finished...

Tommy Hawkins had a decision to make in the spring of 1955. He had finished an exceptional basketball career at Parker High School as Chicago's best player and several colleges...

Major League Soccer wants Mike Fisher, but that sentiment may remain unreciprocated for the time being. The Tampa Bay Mutiny made Fisher, a Batavia native, the second pick overall in...

The still-rings event is the showcase for strength in men's gymnastics. On Tuesday, the sport's strength emanated from the Olympic rings. In the last official joint vote taken by the...

CELESTE BERNARD Four days into the Games, the quality of my Olympic experience hinged on finding a package I needed for deadline and was a day late reaching me. I...

Part of the press conference for the winning women's 4-x-100-meter relay Saturday was devoted to hand modeling. As Gail Devers unwrapped what looked like yards of tape from her talonlike,...