Columns
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For the White Sox, less is more, especially when it comes to winningApr 21, 2024 6:00 am - The White Sox can only ruin it from here. Winning streaks, even little ones, will ruin everything. Victory is the enemy.
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Good News Sunday: Palatine honors basketball team for 4th place finish at stateApr 21, 2024 6:00 am - In this week’s Good News Sunday column, we recap stories about the Palatine village council honoring the Pirates basketball team, a DuPage County CROP Walk marking its 40th year, and United Airlines employees upcycling unused toiletry items to donate to migrants.
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Jim O'Donnell: No reason that Reinsdorf’s ’24 buck turners can't ‘flush’ to 123 lossesApr 21, 2024 6:00 am - LOVE HIM OR NOT, one certainty about Jerry Reinsdorf must be acknowledged: The man has no aversion to turning a buck. “Pissants” of the press box like Malibu-based ex...
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Facts Matter: Simpson didn’t admit to murders before he diedApr 21, 2024 5:00 am - Former NFL star O.J. Simpson died earlier this month following a battle with cancer. Besides his football career and some acting, Simpson mostly was known for being acqui...
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Grammar Moses: To whom it may concernApr 20, 2024 4:15 pm - I remember as if it were yesterday the last email I received from Ted “Dictionary Man” Utchen in the spring of 2021 shortly before he died. It was all about how people’s ...
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Maybe larger families will produce better leaders as in the early U.S.Apr 20, 2024 4:14 pm - Why was America in the Revolutionary War era, with 3 million people, able to generate leaders of the quality of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, while today's Ame...
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Keeping my distance from sports broadcasts on streaming servicesApr 20, 2024 6:00 am - I’m a little bit of a contrarian. Find a fad and I’ll find a way to shun it.
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Start the spring prep sports season later? I don’t think soApr 19, 2024 6:00 am - Don’t bother trying to shift the spring prep sports season later in the year. It won’t matter weather-wise.
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After a year of column writing, I still have plenty to say, unfortunatelyApr 19, 2024 4:00 am - My first journalism job was long ago, covering events at my high school for the local paper. Writing this column is the second. I've been at it since last April, and that...