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Bob Baffert, who can out-arrogant Rick Pitino, wouldn't walk across the track to acknowledge most rivals. But Friday morning Baffert hiked the half-mile down to Barn 45. Word had spread...

These mornings the Churchill Downs barn area smells of jet-set money and horse dung. The contrast startles you like a rearing thoroughbred. A limo yields to an exercise rider who...

Just when you think they can't go any lower, the Bears find a new bottom to hit. This makes Michael McCaskey's bungling of the Dave McGinnis hiring look no worse...

This is what you risk when you go bargain hunting. For a mere $1.9 million base salary, you get a 27-year-old right-hander with a career 40-24 record worth twice that...

I once asked Green Bay's Ron Wolf, who is to Bears personnel man Mark Hatley what Sherlock Holmes was to Watson, if he would ever consider running the Bears. "Who...

Already he is the best thing about Chicago sports. Maybe that isn't saying much, with the Krauses and Hatleys helping turn favorite escapes into moonscapes. But even at box-seat prices,...

For once an athlete's unconscionable quotes have been unfairly taken out of context. Without background or setting, Charlie Ward's words about Jews scream hatred and intolerance. Before you condemn him,...

After announcing the Bears' fourth-round pick Sunday, ESPN's Mike Tirico was momentarily speechless. His producer was telling him through his earpiece that Karon Riley is fluent in Chinese. Beautiful. If...

Sure as a Bear fumbles in the woods, it will happen. The teams picking second through seventh will pass down the greatest gift this side of Michael Vick and the...

This can't be happening. It's here again and so is he. Does anybody notice? Does anybody care? Mark "Pick 'Em Out of a" Hatley once again is being entrusted with...