Robert Markus

Jim McMahon is a lot like Eddie Stanky. As Leo Durocher used to say of his feisty little second baseman: "He can't hit, he can't run, he can't throw; all...

X-rays proved negative on Falcons defensive back Melvin Jenkins, but he will remain overnight in Northwestern Memorial Hospital after being taken from the field on a stretcher in the third...

Neal Anderson was responsible for more than half of the Bears' offensive yardage Sunday. But when the team's total offense amounts to only 140 yards, Anderson's contribution takes on less...

It's going to be a busy winter for Ned Colletti, Cubs vice president for baseball administration: a club-record 11 arbitration cases. The 11 eligible are Mark Grace, Sammy Sosa, Jose...

Former Bear Walter Payton was ready to get back into a race car Saturday after escaping the worst wreck of his auto racing career with only minor burns on his...

After 11 years on the LPGA Tour, Deedee Lasker is thinking about a career change. The former Hinsdale golfer didn't make the cut Friday in the LPGA Chicago Challenge at...

The Phoenix Suns were supposed to be the three-point shooting team in this series, as they showed when they hit nine three-pointers in their triple-overtime victory in Game 3 last...

The new racetrack configuration produced a safe race and, on the surface, an exciting one. But second-place finisher Arie Luyendyk said, "From a driver's standpoint, it wasn't very exciting. I...

In Scott Goodyear's house is a poster of the finish of the 1992 Indianapolis 500, in which Goodyear finished second to Al Unser Jr. in the closest Indy 500 ever....

In auto racing, sometimes it's not over even when it's over. Although the Indy 500 apparently is over before it began for PPG cup champion Bobby Rahal, there is still...