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The quietly defiant mood at Cubs camp has been: "Go ahead, Chicago, heap all the attention and pressure on the White Sox. They've earned it. But you won't be able...

Please not Denis Savard. Please don't sacrifice him and his Hall of Fame reputation for a little fleeting box-office pop. Please, Bill Wirtz, don't put another good human being behind...

His reaction to the stay-or-pro question was his most decisive of one of the coldest one-man nights this vacation spot has ever seen. For the many Illini fans in San...

They have ridden into this Mexican-food mecca like the Three Amigos. They are elongated versions of Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short. They are uncool, untanned and relatively untalented....

A few minutes into an interview last week on ESPN Radio, Dan Patrick finally leveled with Illinois coach Bill Self. "In all honesty, coach," Patrick said, "most fans around the...

March is now maddest for college basketball coaches. They're now the victims of life's inexorable principle. Action, reaction. Every overreaction creates an equally irrational overreaction. In one nerve-wracked, parity-plagued, ref-controlled...

I concede. I humble myself before the great and powerful Jerry Reinsdorf. For two years I have had the cockeyed audacity to question the vision of the man who brought...

They finally responded like a true No. 1 seed. They took the challenge of some skeptical columnist and their nervous coach. At Sunday's opening bell the Fighting Illini basically busted...

As usual with this franchise, nobody wins. Sammy Sosa beat Don Baylor and Mark Grace but lost to Andy MacPhail. GM MacPhail won the battle but lost the war. He...

Up the steeply banked arena ramp chugged Illinois coach Bill Self. Tie loosened, face drained of the usual pink glow, Self looked as if he had had a long day...