Columns
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Eastern Kentucky has a steal in DaPisaSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - There is no mystery where Jessie DaPisa will likely be next Thursday. In front of the TV -- along with millions of others across the country -- watching the season premi...
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Hendry makes the grade for his off-season movesSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Behind every great season, there is an equally great off-season. Granted, this season hasn't been a great one for the Cubs. Right now, they're a touch above mediocre. Th...
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Can Tirico's show find local in national?Sep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - I've written it before, and I'll write it again: All sports, like all politics, is local. So it seemed a recipe for disaster earlier this week when Mike Tirico said on a...
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Sustaining tradition does matterSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - No one wants to be the blip, burp or aberration in the Fremd football program. They don't want to be the ones to break a run of playoff appearances that is a win away fr...
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Four blackjack questions that separate men from the boysSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Casino blackjack is an entirely beatable game, but do you have what it takes to beat it? We've been over the vital stuff many times in this column, but I see very few pl...
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Fantasy jackpot: your players are facing Giants or BengalsSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - Go ahead and smile, owners of Seahawks players Matt Hasselbeck, Shaun Alexander and Deion Branch. You too, Clinton Portis and Santana Moss owners. Your players are prob...
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Cowboys' offense poses numerous threats for Bears' defenseSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - The Bears' defense has contended with some of the NFL's most talented individuals in the first two weeks of the season, but Sunday night's prime showdown with the Cowboy...
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Chicago game show comes to the 'burbsSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - "Don't Spit the Water," the offbeat game show that has been playing late nights at Chicago's Playground Theater for a couple of years, begins a two-month run at the Metr...
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Burns zeros in on WWII, but part of bigger picture gets lostSep 19, 2007 11:00 pm - World War II is a subject so vast and calamitous, it's almost impossible to grasp for someone who didn't live through it. Filmmaker Ken Burns admits that, calling it "so...
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Since saying 'I do,' she won'tSep 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Q. I've been married two years and we dated for more than two years before that. While we were dating, my wife forgot to tell me that she'd flip a switch and things woul...