Buzz Bissinger

Following on yesterday's item Husbands everywhere offering expressions of thanks to Buzz Bissinger comes news that "Friday Night Lights" author Buzz Bissinger "on Tuesday checked into an undisclosed rehab facility to seek treatment of an addiction to...

Buzz Bissinger -- author of "Friday Night Lights," former Tribune investigative reporter, current contributing editor at Vanity Fair -- has published an astonishing confessional that has husbands everywhere reminding their wives just how comparatively...

Let's not pretend that when you close schools on the South and West sides, the children affected aren't black. Let's not pretend that's not racist. ... Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, speaking at a protest rally Wednesday As long as we'...

Beyonce has signed on to headline a concert benefiting Gucci's Chime for Change (get it?), an initiative that works to improve education, justice and health for women and girls around the world. John Legend, Ellie Goulding and Florence and the Machine are...

The story line seems the same. Just change the sport from football to basketball, and the states from Texas to Kentucky. Keith O'Brien's new book, "Outside Shot: Big Dreams, Hard Times, and One County's Quest for Basketball Greatness," is the basketball...

Ten observations on the Lance Armstrong saga, which took on a new dimension once the Big O got involved and apparently got the defrocked 7-time Tour de France winner to tell the truth, or some of it, about his doping: 1.  It would be a lot easier to...

We're all very used to seeing Lance Armstrong as the picture of confidence, someone firmly believing he was in control and would come out on top — whether he was on his bike or on a bully pulpit denying any wrongdoing throughout his historic career....

Last January, you loaded up. You loaded up on all the leftover, on-sale, clearance-priced Christmas wrapping paper you could lay your hands on. You bought Hanukkah bags, Santa wrap, gifty things with poinsettias and reindeer and holly, and you put it...

By Megan Crepeau Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose. Did you get a little teary-eyed reading that? Did it make you think of teamwork and honesty and all those good old-fashioned American values? It did for Mitt Romney - he's......

Now for something completely different Sunday morning: Stephen Colbert will bring his comical outlook to NBC's “Meet the Press.” The program starts at 9 a.m. on WESH-Channel 2. The star of Comedy Central's “Colbert Report” will get...

Culled from pundit prediction lists at New York Magazine and the Washington Post: Guessing Romney: Michael Barone Glenn Beck Dean Chambers, UnskewedPolls.com Jay Cost, Weekly Standard Ben Domenech, The Transom Kevin Eder Ari Fleischer Newt Gingrich...

Mention the phrase "Jewish sports legends" and you'll probably conjure up familiar suspects: Sandy Koufax, Mark Spitz, maybe that joke from "Airplane." You're more likely to omit Sidney Franklin, a matador from Brooklyn (real last name: Frumpkin), or...