Mike Conklin

The seventh and final game of the 1957 NBA finals between the Boston Celtics and St. Louis Hawks has been called one of the most exciting basketball games ever. With...

- P.S.: Did you know a ''Back to the Beach'' promotion was planned every day this week in the State of Illinois Building, which was closed by the flood? Gary...

Crystal baseball: We interrupt that championship season of the Cubs and White Sox to bring a minority report from Bill James: ''IT AIN`T GONNA HAPPEN!'' The sport`s best-known analyst says...

- Beefcake: Today`s Chicago Woman has struck again. Hot on the heels of its ''100 Women Making a Difference'' in Chicago (you be the judge: Channel 7`s Diann Burns was...

- Ringer? When promising Chicago boxer Luis Lomeli suffered that embarrassing first-round knockout from Ramon Zavola last month in the Horizon, it`s possible he wasn`t fighting Ramon Zavola. That`s the...

- Sweetheart deal: The National Football League runs a tight ship in the merchandising and trademark departments. How tight? A new candy, Team NFL Confections, will be introduced Wednesday in...

First-class professional soccer, played outdoors the way it was meant to be played, is a distant memory in Chicago. When Comiskey Park is razed, the site of the sport`s greatest...

- Goodbye Goodwill? Raise your hand if you`re excited by the Goodwill Games in Seattle, where, in case you missed it, Suriname and Ethiopia went into Wednesday`s competition locked in...

- Now it can be told: Lou Henson complained his Fighting Illini lacked emotion in their first-round loss. You wonder how much worse it would have been if they lacked...