I have seen the future . . . and it doesn't include Scottie Pippen. Other 1997 predictions worth clipping, saving and ridiculing: Da Bears will win more games than Da...
`Yes, yes, you may enter my cab. Please partake of the complimentary curry chips and pay no attention to my sister (woman in hooded shawl nods) or to Uncle Shankar...
History, the kind that matters, will be made Saturday by a nervous, perfectly nice incoming knob at the Citadel. That's what they call freshmen at the South Carolina military school--a...
Sometime in the next three weeks, Ray Meyer will meet with Jack M. Greenberg, the chairman of DePaul's board of trustees. That's when Meyer, the Hall of Fame basketball coach...
This was a few nights ago, at a Notre Dame Quarterback Club outing. Dessert plates had been cleared, coffee had been poured, full tummies had been patted. There had to...
What was it that Tom Hanks said in the movie "A League of Their Own"? "Crying? There's no crying in baseball. No crying." That was before Purge Friday, when the...
Unlike Jerry Reinsdorf's White Sox, the Cubs don't require a formal announcement of surrender from the chairman. One look at the NL Central standings tells you everything you need to...
Everything is the same except . . . (cue dramatic musical overture with echo effect) JERRY REINSDORF WAS THERE. September 1492--Italian-born explorer Jerry Reinsdorf, frustrated by the failure to sight...
America's oldest living sportswriter answers the phone on the second ring. "This is Sam Lacy," he says, his voice still as strong as the opinions expressed in his regular column...
Lost in the recent hype and contrived hysteria surrounding women's basketball (contact WNBA shill Hannah Storm for more information) was this little item involving the "We Got Next" generation: "The...