Bernie Lincicome

If college basketball has March Madness, must football have Ditzy December?

May 31, 2019 at 9:35 p.m.

A moment of silence, please, for the Poinsettia Bowl, dearly departed from the general camaraderie of Ditzy December, college football’s comical companion to March Madness. Whereas college basketball piles game...

Mitch Trubisky may have can-do spirit, but it seems he can’t do it

May 31, 2019 at 9:31 p.m.

No two words are as incompatible as “Bears highlights.” The phrase joins the dysfunctional family of such modern oxymorons as “rap music” and “alternative fact.” More to the point of...

Tiger Woods watches his tee shot on the ninth hole of the North Course during the second round of the Farmers Insurance Open tournament at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego on Jan. 27, 2017.

Tiger Woods is back for more, but the old Tiger Woods is gone

May 31, 2019 at 9:40 p.m.

We will indulge memories as long as they stay where we left them. When we left Tiger Woods, the golfer, he was winning the 2008 U.S. Open on a broken...

Brian Griese played in 13 games for the Bears from 2006 to 2007.

Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh is just the thing the Bears need

May 31, 2019 at 9:32 p.m.

This column is about why I would like Jim Harbaugh to be coach of the Bears. It is purely personal, purely foolish and in no way an estimate of how...

NFL’s slide into irrelevance: Explaining the inexplicable

May 31, 2019 at 9:31 p.m.

The court of public opinion will now come to order. Will the defendant please rise? Sorry, your honor, may I lean? Old injuries. Both knees and an Achilles. And my...

The Houston Astros celebrate beating the Dodgers to win the World Series.

Really, there’s no deep significance to sports, including World Series

May 31, 2019 at 9:14 p.m.

Some things are just impossible. Folding a fitted sheet. Reading a newspaper on the beach. Kissing your own elbow. Having a therapeutic World Series. The baseball was … well, after...

Bulls by the numbers: You can count on counting them out

May 31, 2019 at 9:34 p.m.

Approval is expected for a battle hard fought, not meaning punches in practice and fractured faces of teammates. The Bulls vow to play hard, although that would seem to be...

For Cubs, once may not be enough — but twice had better hurry

May 31, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.

Regret is familiar to the Cubs, a condition nourished into a brand, only lately disrupted by success, a sweet pause but off-putting, like a whiff of cologne. Not that the...

Michael Bradley leaves the field after the U.S. 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia qualifier against Trinidad and Tobago at Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva, Trinidad and Tobago, on Oct. 10, 2017.

Mulling over the darkest day in American soccer history

August 22, 2019 at 6:16 a.m.

By all accounts from those who pay attention to these things, last Tuesday was the darkest day in American soccer history. There must be ways of confirming this, or disputing...

Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky leaves the field in the fourth quarter on Oct. 20, 2019, at Soldier Field.

Fate of Bears, NFL could depend on Mitch Trubisky feel-good story

May 31, 2019 at 9:24 p.m.

Starting a rookie quarterback is a little like ordering dinner from a menu that has pictures. Is this what I picked? Doesn't look like it. Doesn't taste like it. Still,...

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