Columns
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Boston Marathon's first female runner continues to blaze a trailJul 26, 2019 1:00 am - It's been more than 50 years since Kathrine Switzer broke barriers (and rules) to become the first woman to run the Boston Marathon. "There were people who told me that ...
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O'Donnell: Will 'The Curse of the Honey Bears' sideline Matt Nagy and karmic blue?Jul 26, 2019 1:00 am - THE CUBS FINALLY broke "The Curse of 'The Goat.' " The Bulls may live on into perpetuity with "The Curse of 'The Breakup.' " And the Bears are showing no inclination to ...
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Can Al Franken be rehabilitated?Jul 26, 2019 1:00 am - By Byron York Al Franken, the Minnesota Democrat and former "Saturday Night Live" star forced out of the Senate in late 2017 by #MeToo allegations, is back in the news. ...
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Feder: Susy Schultz named executive director of broadcast museumJul 26, 2019 1:00 am - Susy Schultz, the esteemed Chicago journalist, educator, writer and strategist, has been hired as executive director of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, Robert Fe...
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Rozner: Blackhawks will try to lighten Toews' load this seasonJul 26, 2019 1:00 am - As his stars were getting older in Detroit, Mike Babcock made it a point to save their minutes wherever he could. He used younger legs on the penalty kill from the start...
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It's up to the child to decide their potentialJul 25, 2019 11:00 pm - Q. I don't want to be that mother. You know, the kind inappropriately invested in her kid winning, achieving, etc. But I have those tendencies, because I think I was rai...
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O'Donnell: 'Duck, dodge and hide' the apparent new passwords at AM-1000Jul 25, 2019 1:00 am - THEY OFFER TWO TYPES of programming at ESPN AM-1000: The unlistenable and the not listened to. And in the corporate vertical from the local disaster signal on up to ESPN...
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Slusher: To grow, we all need to challenge our ideasJul 25, 2019 1:00 am - One of the frustrations of my job as editor of Opinion in the Daily Herald is the presumption some readers make about our motives when we publish expressions of opinion ...
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The cancerous consensus in today's politicized WashingtonJul 25, 2019 1:00 am - You often hear that in these polarized times, Republicans and Democrats are deadlocked on almost everything. But the real scandal is what both sides agree on. The best e...
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Feder: Schakowsky joins protest over 'Worldview' cancellation at WBEZJul 25, 2019 1:00 am - U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky has added her voice to protests over the cancellation of "Worldview," the long-running international affairs talk show airing at noon Monday thr...