Bernie Lincicome

A bright shiny new thing awaits the Bears and all they need to do is point. His name is Caleb Williams and he is OK with it. Being a Bear, I mean.

On sale soon — Bernie's Little Book of Wisdom. Some things you suspect, some things you guess and some things you just know.

Curiously, the sympathy for noted wallflower and orphan quarterback Justin Fields grew daily as the human highlight film awaited his fate, not all that bad really. Fields will still make more money than he should, and he will play football in Pittsburgh, traded there Saturday night.

Madness and March have been with us ever since the hare stuffed the dormouse into the teapot, so there is no disputing its existence. How it came to have anything to do with college basketball is less literary and can be blamed on alliteration.

With baseball season so fresh you can still smell the hot dog mustard, duty demands baseball predictions. Anybody can do that. But can they do it in alphabetical order?

By rough count, I suppose I have written more than 10,000 words on O.J. Simpson, most of them when he was a football player, one of the best, when twice a season he played for the team that played the...

The White Sox can only ruin it from here. Winning streaks, even little ones, will ruin everything. Victory is the enemy. Not only does winning mess up the distinctiveness of the White Sox, winning cha...

Whenever I see artistic renderings of wonderful new stadiums or see overpraised new Bears quarterbacks, I think of the troop inspection scene from “The Dirty Dozen” when Donald Sutherland turns to Robert Ryan and says, “Very pretty colonel, but can they fight?”

Admitting to being generational myself, I am disturbed that I might have missed a few worthies along the way who managed to arrive without modern prepackaging, not to further pick on the Bulls for rel...

As our favorite Nobel laureate reminds us, the times they are a changin,' not to mention a shrinkin.'