To our readers, With the recent launch of the new Tribune and the start of the NBA season, we experimented with our own custom NBA box score for games not...
A TV guy who's also a pretty good baseball guy asked me point-blank Friday if I thought the Cubs were "choking." I didn't have a good answer, inasmuch as I...
The good nuns at St. Cajetan's had issues with my penmanship when I was a youngster -- "Chicken scratches," Sister Pietrina called it -- and that was my only reservation...
Because of production deadlines, this section had to be completed before the outcome of the White Sox's tiebreaker game with Minnesota was known. Consequently, it's pretty much all Cubs. Complete...
Best-selling author Michael Sokolove's most recent book, "Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports," examines health and safety issues young women athletes face. In an...
A small envelope would come once in a while, familiar Evanston return address on the outside, familiar insight on the inside. Any word from Jerome Holtzman was welcome. He was...
Sportswriters reach a certain age and don't like to hear "I grew up reading you" from ever-younger scribes, even when it's meant to be a compliment. It can imply fogey-ism,...
When there's a chance to win, Tiger Woods doesn't lose. Woods proved that again on Monday by overcoming people's choice Rocco Mediate in double overtime, as it were, a playoff...
The Tribune sports department lost a good friend and a loyal ally this week when George de Lama wrapped up a distinguished 30-year career at the paper. De Lama retires...
Being a latecomer to golf has been a convenient excuse for stinking at it, though many rounds over many subsequent years should have produced an occasional decent score. Some of...