Sports Stories from April 15, 2013 (Change date)
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ISU hires Smith as women’s basketball coachApr 15, 2013 2:02 pm - NORMAL — Barb Smith has been hired as the seventh head women’s basketball coach in Illinois State history, school officials announced Monday. Smith, who has 26 years of ...
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Hurdles events offer a little bit of varietyApr 15, 2013 1:29 pm - Some hurdlers favor the 110-meter hurdles. Others like the 300s. Inevitably most run both. Benet’s Austin Dzic zeroed in close to his personal-best in the 300 hurdles Fr...
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Glenbard West can’t rally against Heflin, Downers NorthApr 15, 2013 12:38 pm - It is almost unfair to spot Elaine Heflin 3 runs. It happened Monday at Glenbard West, and Downers Grove North’s senior fireballer did the rest. Heflin struck out 18 Hil...
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Doane playing for her ‘angel’Apr 15, 2013 12:36 pm - When Maddi Doane is having a difficult game, she knows where to turn for inspiration. She can look to the initials “PMD” on a wrist tattoo, for her late mom, Patti Maddi...
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Buffalo Grove turns back BarringtonApr 15, 2013 12:00 pm - Buffalo Grove's girls soccer team continues to impress. After advancing into the finals of the Pepsi Showdown on Saturday with a 2-1 victory over New Trier, the Bison g...
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LeBlanc eager to soak it all in with BlackhawksApr 15, 2013 11:40 am - Drew LeBlanc walked into the United Center with Jonathan Toews on Monday night. When LeBlanc will skate with Toews and the rest of the Blackhawks remains open ended. He ...
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Team Fegan organizes AHA benefitApr 15, 2013 11:15 am - After their father suffered a fatal heart attack in 2005 and their mother survived a heart attack and quadruple bypass in 2008, Katie Fegan and her sisters committed the...
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Shaw's play helps Blackhawks keep rollingApr 15, 2013 11:00 am - On a team loaded with star players, it's easy to overlook Andrew Shaw. Every team needs guys like Shaw, particularly successful ones: a pest who can get under the skin o...
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Rebuild Wrigley and ‘we will win the World Series’Apr 15, 2013 10:06 am - Back in October 2006, then-Cubs president John McDonough sat in an extremely cramped “interview room” at Wrigley Field and proclaimed it the team’s goal to win the World...
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Expected to be good, Batavia baseball, Saints softball better than advertisedApr 15, 2013 8:44 am - Prior to the start of the high school — I can’t wait until it actually starts feeling like — spring season, two local teams were included among the annual preview storie...