Dan McGrath

OK, so he wasn't exactly Chris Rock. But the unfailingly stoic Lovie Smith was relaxed enough to take a few stabs at humor during his media session Wednesday. Answering, for...

In her first year as coach of the U.S. Military Academy women's team last season, Maggie Dixon guided the Lady Cadets to a 24-5 record and the championship of the...

Baseball players' careers are defined by numbers. Once those players have been retired for five years, the most important number becomes 75. That's the percentage of ballots on which a...

(The headline as published has been corrected in this text.) Neil Milbert This episode took place at the old Wisconsin Field House after the last game of the Big Ten...

Darren Sharper derived no pleasure from Rex Grossman's struggles Sunday. The Vikings safety and the Bears quarterback had yapped at each other last week over whether Grossman had been overly...

The sigh of relief Friday night that greeted DePaul's 71-41 victory over Eastern Illinois at Allstate Arena was audible on the Blue Demons' Lincoln Park campus 12 miles away. Not...

When the Phillies' charter plane touched down in Chicago late Sunday, Aaron Rowand "walked off and I was home." "This is the only place I've ever known playing baseball until...

Haste to make deadline is no excuse for putting incorrect information in a newspaper. Factual errors erode a paper's credibility. We made an inadvertent but hurtful error Tuesday night in...

Tribune columnist Rick Morrissey underwent surgery for colon cancer recently and will be out of the paper for several weeks as he completes his recovery process. Morrissey is home and...

Aside from the fact that they were basketball coaches who pledged their allegiance to the college game, Ray Meyer and Al McGuire had very little in common. Marquette's McGuire was...