Mike Kiley

1. Wake Forest (24-5) Coach: Dave Odom. Tourney fact: This marks Wake's fifth straight NCAA tournament appearance. Key players: Senior guard Randolph Childress averaged 18.4 points per game in regular...

1. Kansas (23-5) Coach: Roy Williams. Tourney fact: Has already been to two Final Fours in the '90s. Key player: Jacque Vaughn. Terrific distributor. The perfect point guard for the...

The Bears can't all agree on whether Warren Moon's left knee strain remains serious enough to affect what the Minnesota quarterback can do in Sunday's playoff game. "I know he's...

The statistical gap that screams loudest going into Sunday's game between the Bears and Minnesota is total offense. The Vikings are a commanding second in the NFC with an average...

Among the millions of fans now tracking baseball's increasingly twisted and complicated labor negotiations, there is a select group of especially interested observers. Management and labor representatives for the other...

From his vantage point in New York, Nick Zito perhaps best put the 1995 shutdown of Arlington International Racecourse in perspective. "This isn't some fair not running next year," said...

Rudy Pilous was but a comet across Chicago's sporting panorama, but when he died last weekend in St. Catharines, Ontario, it marked the passing of the last Blackhawks coach to...

Almost the worst illness that could hit Will Perdue now is the common cold. "I can't even blow my nose," the Bulls center lamented as he returned Saturday night to...

Stan Block tore knee cartilage while officiating last Saturday's state football playoff game between Naperville North and Naperville Central. But he never missed a play, and when it was over...

Coach Lou Tepper was tough on Illinois quarterback Johnny Johnson after a 10-9 loss to Washington State. But he decided to go a more sympathetic route after Saturday's 19-14 setback...