Barry Temkin

They gathered in a basement meeting room on the South Side, which seemed entirely fitting for the mission they are on. That mission is to breathe significant life into track...

There's a temptation to call Regina George the stealth bomber of Illinois high school track, but that wouldn't be entirely accurate. When someone finishes fourth in the 800-meter run in...

Steve Clegg does not have a magic wand. He has not devised some wildly innovative coaching strategy or groundbreaking motivational technique for his Lake Forest girls track and cross-country teams....

Kevin Devitt believes God works in unexpected ways, and based on his own life it's hard to argue with him. It certainly is unexpected that a 21-year-old college junior is...

Khara Williams loves a stage ... any stage. It may be in an auditorium, where the York junior acts, sings and dances, or it may be simply a lane on...

May we have the 2007-08 basketball awards envelopes, please: MapQuest Trophy: O'Fallon. There aren't many Class 4A schools in southern Illinois, so the Panthers wound up making three trips to...

Jillian Hirsch lived in Glenview. Pilar Torres lived in an orphanage in the mountains of Peru. Their options, as you might suspect, were worlds apart. When the two became friends...

The jury is still out on four-class basketball ... way out, but it's beyond dispute that our state's latest foray into multiplication has been very, very good to the Chicago...

It's hard to be a state champion and almost an afterthought, but that's the fate that faced Richards and Zion-Benton after the Chicago Public League coronation in the Class 3A...

It's hard to be a state champion and almost an afterthought, but that's the fate that seemed to face Richards and Zion-Benton after the Chicago Public League coronation in the...