OU’s Long biding his time
While Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops was busy Monday fending off the latest inquiries about another coaching vacancy (Florida), offensive coordinator Chuck Long quietly discussed his possible interest in an Illinois...
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Bears get flu shots despite shortage
The executive director of the Lake County Health Department reacted with outrage Wednesday to news that Bears players have received flu vaccinations despite a shortage that has caused the shutdown...
Performing with passion
You wouldn't know it to look at Michael Barrett, who appears as if he just stepped out of Gentleman's Quarterly. And you wouldn't know it to talk to him, soft-spoken...
Young breaking new ground
Chicago's Donald Young, 14, continues his tennis education this week as the first American pro to compete in a U.S. junior national championship, advancing to the round of 16 in...
Bidding a final Alou
Six seconds, three pops, a couple of "zzztttzzz's" and the folks at Kinzie and Dearborn figured they had undone 58 years of misfortune. More to the point, after the nationally...
A shining example
Chris Perry didn't look like a man who should have been exhausted. Nor did he sound like one whose coach once accused him of being selfish. "Give me the ball...
BCS system quells debate
All right, let's get this straight. The same brilliant system that was supposed to take controversy out of the equation has now so defied human logic that any mope who...
Injuries piling up
Illinois coach Ron Turner gave his team a rare day off Sunday after losing still more players to injury. Receiver Lonnie Hurst, originally thought to have a sprained ankle, is...
Wood: I choked, let the city down
Kerry Wood did as much as any player to keep the Cubs in Game 7 Wednesday night, but afterward he took all the blame. "I let my teammates down, I...
Rawls singing a Cubs tune
Multi-Grammy winner and native Chicagoan Lou Rawls sang the national anthem before Game 6 and spent part of the second inning in the WGN radio booth. A South Sider, Rawls,...