DeRozan might be as important for the Bulls off the court as he is on it. As the sides try to agree on an extension, DeRozan has to ask himself if he wants to stay a Bull.
This year’s draft class had the potential to be a total bust because several stars, including Clark, could have opted to return to college for a fifth season.
The Sky own the No. 3 and No. 8 overall picks, a result of some costly dealmaking by first-year general manager Jeff Pagliocca.
Sandhill cranes on a visit to the Platte River area of Nebraska, the first Morel of the Week this year and an early sighting of a monarch butterfly are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
Coach Billy Donovan used the game to rest DeMar DeRozan, Nikola Vucevic and Alex Caruso. That meant an opportunity for rookie Adama Sanogo and veteran Jevon Carter to shine.
Locked into the No. 9 spot and set for a home play-in game against the Hawks, Billy Donovan used Friday’s game against the Wizards to rest his core three.
After being fired for the first time in his career, Holtmann wanted to unplug from basketball. Instead, he plugged back in.
Also, we asked how excited you are to see the Bulls in the NBA’s play-in tournament. Let’s just say voters didn’t struggle to contain themselves.
I traveled around southern Illinois at some new sites as an offshoot of covering the total solar eclipse. It brought a sharp reminder of just how much that region brings to our outdoors world.
Here are some more nuggets related to the nature world from the total solar eclipse on Monday.
With only four picks, the temptation to parlay No. 9 into additional picks will be tempting. But with Caleb Williams the presumptive No. 1, plus Montez Sweat and Keenan Allen, Poles is assured of a productive draft.
Caitlin Clark and the Hawkeyes have the most buzz on the women’s side — yes, it’s because she’s awesome — but the Gamecocks have yet to lose a game all season.
The match Saturday at Soldier Field with the Houston Dynamo begins a stretch of four home games over the next five.
Burns has turned the Trojans into a legitimate national power at the highest level of junior-college basketball.
A question on the size of turkey flocks heads the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
Bet on it: Behind genius Hurley, UConn looks to go 6-0 against the spread in NCAA tourney for second consecutive year
The Knicks and Bulls hit an odd part of the schedule as the regular season comes to an end, playing three times in 10 days.
In building a case for Thibodeau’s dismissal in 2015, the former Bulls front office played the minutes card and played it hard. That false narrative has stuck with Thibodeau, despite the numbers saying something different.
Sorting through pieces of change in history related to the natural world from smelt netting in Chicago to Michigan Maritime Museum to American white pelicans in Indiana to trumpeter swans in Palos.
The Bears are zeroing in on what they want to do in the draft.
Last, we asked where baseball ranks on your list of spectator sports. First? Second? Third? Not even?
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Ohtani’s 650-word speech hardly qualified as a news conference because those usually entail back-and-forth questions and answers with media figures. Author Bob Whiting has an interesting perspective on the Japanese star.
A striking photo of a coot, an unphotogenic bird, and ruminations on a reader and his granddaughter enjoying suburban deer are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
The Hawks are only a half-game behind the Bulls for the No. 9 seed. DeMar DeRozan said it’s time to treat the remaining games like they’re all “one-and-dones.”
While the No. 9 seed isn’t ideal, it’s where the Bulls have been for quite some time and where coach Billy Donovan wants them to stay with eight games left.
As the Illini go deeper in March Madness, more and more of our readers are tuning in — and some of them are only beginning to learn about Terrence Shannon Jr.’s case and consider how it makes them feel to cheer the team on.
The acquisition of Tamarack Farms makes Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge a more impactful destination and creates within Hackmatack a major macrosite for conservation.
Those were two of the questions in this week’s “Polling Place,” your home for Sun-Times sports polls on the site formerly known as Twitter.
A buck still holding antlers in Crete and a question on pickerel and the Illinois record are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.
Staley led the Gamecocks to another undefeated regular season, a feat few pundits thought possible.