Michael Kellams

The Chicago Tribune has done distinguished Olympic sports journalism for a long time. Many of the Tribune's traveling teams have been led by Philip Hersh, our intrepid Olympics specialist. Phil...

The Chicago Tribune has done distinguished Olympic sports journalism for a long time. Many of the Tribune's traveling teams have been led by Philip Hersh, our intrepid Olympics specialist. Phil...

Philip Hersh For the first time in my journalistic memory--which includes all eight Winter Olympics since 1980--I have no indelible single memory of the Games, just bits and pieces. Saw...

Sixteen days of competition? Over already? They will be if you slept in and didn't read this until lunchtime. Don't fret, you haven't missed the big finish. And that's not...

Only one shopping day remains to pick up your Olympic spirit. After Saturday, the only things left on the shelf are a gold-medal hockey game, a cross-country ski race and...

It's all about the jumps. You saw that Thursday night. First you need speed and the perfect body pitch to set up a flawless takeoff. Then the jump. Graceful and...

Officially, it was set up to be Hedrick-Davis IV. But, unlike Sly Stallone, Shani Davis had the good sense to get out while the gettin' was good. You know those...

Maybe the only thing smaller than Sasha Cohen's frame is her lead over Russia's Irina Slutskaya after the short program: 3/100ths of a point. And a mere 71/100ths is all...

This one is easy: What do Sasha Cohen, Kristina Koznick, Chris Witty and the U.S. men's curling and hockey teams have in common with Elvis? On Wednesday, they all left...

While the Games open with great expectations, most athletes leave without closure on their Olympic dreams. Take the U.S. men's hockey team and captain Chris Chelios. Chicago's favorite hockey son...