Bernie Lincicome

The urgent longing for baseball to be what it once was can be detected in the relief found from a World Series between “icons” of the game, as if the Yankees and Dodgers have not been holding up t...

Taken on faith, a requirement hereabouts, Will Venable is the 44th manager of the White Sox, although to be honest I stopped keeping count somewhere between Jeff Torborg and Robin Ventura. Introducing...

The frontiers of panic are indistinct, but we can agree that the Bears are at the border. One more loss and the rescue of backsliding Caleb Williams, as well as the miracle healing of — let me check my list — linebackers, wide receivers, offensive linemen, will not keep the Bears from playing for scraps. One more loss and the Bears become that most miserable of creatures, an afterthought.

As poster-doofus of the moment, Matt Eberflus has deftly avoided the dreaded kiss of death, otherwise known as the vote of confidence, which in sports is like the unopened letter from the IRS.

Those of us who watch NFL football with the sound off may yet have an opinion about the broadcasting chops of Tom Brady because, after all, he is Tom Brady. The Greatest of All Time has been reviewed ...

The assumption is always that the next coach will be better than the last one, otherwise why bother? In the case of the Bears, truth is a cruel recap, the line of fools stretching back beyond the last...

For a brief moment some thought was given to holding a college football bowl game at Wrigley Field, a notion considered too daffy even for the protracted commotion of Ditzy December, college football's comical companion to March Madness.

Among the missed newspaper gimmicks — other than newspapers themselves — is the “Heisman Watch.” This was a weekly rating of who might win the big college football prize, less big now than then. Both the “watch” and the Heisman are relics of kinder times.

The last time I saw Sammy Sosa, I explained to him what the word “skeptic” means. It means doubt, I said, suspicion, distrust.

Apologies for my optimism, being on record for the Bears finishing 5-12. Oh, it is still possible I guess, given as how the playoff Packers have no good reason to win next Sunday against the Bears, other than, of course, they always do.