Loyola created cynicism-free zone that was fun to share — now comes the hard part
You do this job long enough and you risk becoming numb to the ups and downs of sports, the joy and pain, the fascinating range of human emotions the games...
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Loyola has no regrets as Michigan ends its remarkable run
On their last trip off the basketball court together as teammates Saturday night, Loyola guards Clayton Custer and Ben Richardson, best friends since third grade, walked with arms around one...
Jalen Brunson’s coach at Stevenson goes way back with Porter Moser
Nostalgia accompanied longtime Stevenson basketball coach Pat Ambrose on Friday’s 200-mile drive from Houston to his first Final Four, plenty of time to reminisce about boyhood memories and milestones reached...
Porter Moser relishes how Final Four ties him to his late father
Blueprints were scattered all over the Moser kitchen table. Jim Moser, Porter’s father, brought them back to Naperville after a visit in the late 1970s to this south-central Texas city...
Bruce Weber on how Loyola can beat Michigan: ‘Keep their humbleness, keep their focus’
Almost a week after Loyola ended his season, it still hurts Kansas State coach Bruce Weber to explain what went wrong — especially when he can’t. “They had one of...
Anthony Rizzo goes deep calling for stricter gun laws
Of all the artwork Cubs manager Joe Maddon has introduced to his players this spring, the most powerful display appeared Thursday at Marlins Park during batting practice before the Cubs’...
Dick Vitale on Loyola and Sister Jean: ‘They are all awesome, baby’
Dick Vitale has a message for Cubs manager Joe Maddon. “Tell my buddy Joe to move over, the star of stars in the Windy City is Sister Jean (Dolores Schmidt)...
Which is more likely in 2018: Cubs winning World Series or White Sox going .500? Or both?
We interrupt this Loyola basketball fairy tale to bring you baseball’s opening day, reality welcomed in Chicago by the Cubs, White Sox and bartenders, not necessarily in that order. Every...
Two key decisions that helped Loyola reach Final Four
Etch March 24, 2018, into the lore of Loyola basketball. But two other dates mean almost as much as the one that will mark the school making its first Final...
He’s ‘heart and soul’ of Loyola athletics — and guy guiding Sister Jean through NCAA tournament
As Loyola coach Porter Moser cut down the nets Saturday at Philips Arena in Atlanta after clinching a spot in the Final Four, he remembered one thing before stepping down...