Author Archives: Andy Behrens

Sports wouldn’t be sports without the mountains of data collected by the reporters of STATS.

Women’s football finally has a toehold here, but with only one team, there are still more players than spots.

An elastic chin strap constricted the jowls of 275-pound Jason Yurechko. It held in place the plastic bull horns he was wearing on top of his frizzy red clown wig. A tight black Bulls jersey was stretched over his belly, and he wore red-and-black Zuba pants. Flushed, clammy, and breathing heavily, he yelled “Yeah!” to […]

Jellyvision, Harry Gottlieb, and the Future of Man-Machine Interaction

John Kuczaj’s obsession with Cubs slugger Dave Kingman led to a Web site documenting his hero’s every move. And then his hero sent him an E-mail.

She’s one of the most exciting high school athletes in the country. But don’t look for Candace Parker on ESPN.

A brutal–and legal–hit on the field left Darryl Stingley in a wheelchair. Now he’s doing what he can to keep the football field from becoming a slaughterhouse.

The men of the WCWBL take their plastic bats and balls pretty seriously.

Leon Smith nearly destroyed himself during his first shot at professional basketball. At recent tryouts in Gary, he pondered his comeback and his younger brother’s hopes of following in his footsteps.

Spit-stained, dusty, or torn, if it was worn by a professional athlete, someone’s dumb enough to buy it.