Pro Sports
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Boomers win on walk-off 3-run homer in front of largest crowd in franchise historyJul 03, 2023 1:00 am - On the day he was named to the Frontier League's West Division All-Star team, Blake Grant-Parks smashed a 3-run walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give ...
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Madrigal leaves game, Cubs may need a roster moveJul 03, 2023 1:00 am - MILWAUKEE - Nick Madrigal tried to ignore reality when he first felt a twinge in his right hamstring. But then he felt it again and remembered missing most of the 2021 s...
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Sox prospect Colas is rolling at AAA Charlotte. Next stop: Guaranteed Rate Field?Jul 03, 2023 1:00 am - Back in 2017-18 and the first part of 2019, the White Sox were piling up losses during a full-blown rebuild. For much of the painful stretch, minor-league prospects were...
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Ziehm: John Deere Classic has some new features, familiar namesJul 03, 2023 1:00 am - The John Deere Classic tees off for the 52nd time on Thursday with a new tournament director, a pro-am with a celebrity participant whose fame comes in basketball, a pai...
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Venus Williams falls early in first match at Wimbledon, losing to Svitolina
Jul 03, 2023 1:00 am - WIMBLEDON, England - As Venus Williams entered Centre Court for her 24th Wimbledon appearance at age 43, greeted by a standing ovation, she held a green exercise band ov...
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Cubs' Stroman, Swanson, Steele, White Sox's OF Robert chosen for All-Star GameJul 02, 2023 2:00 pm - Marcus Stroman walked out to greet reporters Sunday wearing a 2019 All-Star Game hat and a Muggsy Bogues T-shirt. They both fit, since Stroman was one of three Cubs sele...
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Cubs bats wake up late, but they lose in 10 innings to finish 1-5 homestandJul 02, 2023 1:00 pm - This was a really long, uneven, unsuccessful weekend at Wrigley Field for the Cubs. Two games featured more than eight hours of rain delays. Saturday's contest ended jus...
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You do go harder for your hometown': Bears are heavy on local talent in 2023Jul 02, 2023 6:00 am - For Lake Villa native T.J. Edwards and Lake Zurich native Jack Sanborn, the similarities in their career arcs are uncanny. The two Bears linebackers have taken nearly id...
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Lincicome: Is there any reason to tune into Wimbledon?Jul 02, 2023 5:30 am - A moment of silence for Wimbledon, the late tennis tournament, of slim interest now to America, gone the way of the Tour de France and Tiger-less golf, empty of intrigue...
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Jim O'Donnell: For Fourth of July barbies, Arlington Heights is still the one to beat in Bears derbyJul 02, 2023 5:30 am - THE DATE WAS JULY 3, 1776, and the city was Philadelphia. Ben Franklin and others on The Committee of Five were deadline dashing toward the final draft of The Declaratio...