Neil Milbert

He was a thoroughbred of humble origins with a cantankerous disposition, and he spent the early years of his racing career as a vagabond competing at the bush tracks in...

After making their way through the byways of Chicago's West Side, an unrelenting sun beating on their heads, marathoners reached a leafy section of Jackson Boulevard where they were greeted...

Like the men's and women's races, the men's wheelchair race was an all-out fight to the finish line. The winner was Australia's Kurt Fearnley, and his unofficial time of 1...

Del Mar's Polytrack proved to be a magic carpet for Student Council last month when he beat the best horses on the West Coast and won the Grade I $1...

To hockey fans, Bill Wirtz will be remembered as "Dollar Bill," the tightfisted owner of the Blackhawks who kept home games off TV and let some of the team's biggest...

Playing before 82,630 fiercely partisan fans at Camp Randall Stadium, Wisconsin stretched the longest winning streak in major-college football to 13 games Saturday night by downing Iowa 17-13 in the...

Playing before 82,630 fiercely partisan fans in Camp Randall Stadium, ninth-ranked Wisconsin stretched the longest winning streak in major college football to 13 games on Saturday night by downing stubborn...

Summer will be on its last legs when the thoroughbred meeting at Hawthorne Race Course leaves the starting gate Friday. When the meeting hits the finish line Jan. 13, it...

Mark Guidry's sentimental journey back to Chicago has ended. He went out a winner. Guidry, the Chicago thoroughbred circuit's most accomplished jockey from 1990 through 2000, came from Churchill Downs...

Boxing always has been a bastion of ethnic chauvinism, and that element will be the main ingredient in Friday night's card at the Congress Theater. Promoters Dominic Pesoli and Bob...