Dan McGrath

Reports that he's atop Illinois' wish list to succeed Bill Self as the Illini basketball coach came as a surprise to Tom Crean. The Marquette coach returned to Milwaukee from...

The conventional wisdom in college basketball is to go with seniors in any game of consequence, particularly when freshmen form the core group of the old-timers' opposition. Syracuse's insouciant freshmen...

Marjorie Crean, mother of Marquette coach Tom Crean, was taken from the Superdome in an ambulance after she reported feeling numbness in her arms during the second half of Marquette's...

The "All-City Team" Tribune baseball reporter Phil Rogers picked before the first White Sox-Cubs series two weeks ago leaned heavily toward the South Side. Seven of the eight position players...

Bob Lackey, who helped Evanston High School win the 1968 state basketball championship and later starred at Marquette University, died Tuesday. He was 53 and had been battling cancer. As...

John Husar, the Tribune's outdoors columnist, died Thursday morning, a loss that was felt by friends, family and readers alike. There is another group that will desperately miss him--his colleagues....

Frank Robinson would like to join new manager Don Baylor as the Cubs' bench coach, but he's not sure he wants to make the commitment to a full-time coaching job...

To hear Dean Smith tell it, freshman "Mike" Jordan was a starter at North Carolina for the 1981-82 season only because the rules mandated you play five guys. Smith didn't...

DePaul University officials issued a strongly worded denial Saturday of a Chicago Sun-Times report that the NCAA is investigating basketball coach Pat Kennedy's recruiting practices. The story, in the paper's...

THERE'S A REASON . . . . . . Houston is a Cub rather than a Brave. And Jeff Blauser. That's not to lay all the blame for the Cubs'...