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Local basketball players making impact at collegiate levelMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - It's time to check on how some of our local players are doing in Division I women's college basketball: • Candace Parker (Naperville Central Class of 2004) poured in 28 ...
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Your winners in this weekend's boys basketball tourneyMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Just because the IHSA abandoned tradition doesn't mean it's a four-gone conclusion the Daily Herald will do the same. Expansion from two to four classes might seem to be...
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ESPN casts a lovely spell with 'Black Magic' documentaryMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Between Black History Month and the start of the NCAA Tournament, ESPN presents a new miniseries called "Black Magic," and it's all the more powerful for not trying to e...
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Wow! Green eggs and hams on paradeMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - OK, lads and lassies, get ready to don your green and get your Irish up. I hear you'll find more than a few hams on parade in the East Dundee St. Patrick's Day parade al...
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New era brings new balance to two sides of paper's missionMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In the inner world of a daily newspaper, the "tell the truth" side of the mission and the "make money" side persist in something of a state of uneasy symbiosis. Each sid...
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Children can get their fill at parks Easter egg huntMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - It may not feel much like spring, but the children will be out with baskets, gathering Easter eggs this weekend as an unusually early Easter rushes at us. The Mount Pros...
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Polly Hirt's athletic career follows familiar, successful arcMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - About the time she started realizing she wasn't going to soar any higher, and that she was scraping the ceiling of her gymnastics potential, Polly Hirt began to plummet....
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Tallon faces tough off-season decisionsMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Surely everyone has noticed the Blackhawks making a strong push for a playoff spot without Nikolai Khabibulin and Martin Havlat, their two highest-paid players. What doe...
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State senator's bills may have impact on Hoffman EstatesMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Carol Stream Republican state Rep. Randy Ramey's district doesn't cover Hoffman Estates, but he's had a lot to say about the village lately. Well, he wouldn't have as mu...
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Area business owners share their recession-beating experiencesMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Tom Walter gets ideas from his employees. Jennifer Davis saved jobs by off-shoring product development. Dave Nyc cautions to not wait too long to implement changes. Whil...