Sam Smith

I'm often asked about the best things I've seen watching the NBA, and there's one moment that sticks with me. It was just before Game 3 of the 2003 opening-round...

It's a feeling few athletes ever have in their careers, the absolute certainty they are going to win the game, a confidence bordering on arrogance grounded in relentless success. The...

Jerry Sloan knows point guards. He coached one of the best in John Stockton, coached against Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas and Maurice Cheeks and played against Bob Cousy, Lenny Wilkens,...

Here come the Bulls thundering down the stretch? Doesn't seem likely. Why is this season different from recent Bulls seasons? Because what everyone loved about the hustling, overachieving Bulls the...

Watching the Phoenix Suns these days, I'm reminded of Melanie, a Woodstock veteran and one of the acclaimed folk singers of the late 1960s. There was this song of hers,...

I recall being on a panel a few years back with Sonny Vaccaro, the legendary high school talent evaluator and promoter who now runs the Roundball Classic here. It was...

Brett Favre has been the Bears' nemesis for 17 seasons, but other Chicago pro franchises have had their troubles with stars as well. Cubs Two active players rate as future...

So how can you generally be acknowledged as the best player in the NBA and, after 12 years in the league, never be named most valuable player? That all will...

We'll know better in a few months the winners and sinners in the NBA's midwinter trading frenzy, which had 20 teams, more than 50 players and a dozen or so...

So much for the theory that the mortgage crisis would hinder Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert of Quicken Loans. The three-team trade with the Bulls and Seattle pushed the Cavs' payroll...