Columns
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The odd cases and unusual suspects of an unprecedented yearJan 01, 2021 4:30 am - The year we officially bid good riddance to at midnight was like no other. From the COVID-19 pandemic, to the killing of George Floyd and the protests it sparked, to a p...
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We are not helplessJan 01, 2021 12:00 am - This is a tightrope column, the kind you'd rather not write, about an event you don't feel you can ignore. You tread carefully, but you want people to pay attention as y...
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Rozner: Cubs' promising future now a thing of the pastJan 01, 2021 12:00 am - It can't be that Cubs fans are shedding tears over the loss of Yu Darvish. Can't be. This is the same player that was so disdained as late as June 2019, the one that was...
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Hub Arkush: Sunday's game is Bears' biggest in a decadeJan 01, 2021 12:00 am - While the rest of us celebrated the new year Thursday evening, if you are a Chicago Bear there are two days to go until you can say goodbye to 2020, something we've all ...
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There was some good in 2020: Top women's sports stories in the Year of COVIDJan 01, 2021 12:00 am - Happy 2021! To 2020 I say good riddance ... but not before revisiting some important women's sports stories. A big first: Kim Ng, first hired in baseball by the Whit...
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Life in Los AngelesJan 01, 2021 12:00 am - Los Angeles is on the verge of becoming the world's biggest COVID hot spot. "The epicenter," we say, shaking our heads. How did this happen? "It's not so bad here," we s...
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Constable: Emerging from ashes of 2020 with hope for 2021Dec 31, 2020 4:30 am - It's a wonder Father Time still has enough energy to hand over the reins to Baby New Year, considering everything that happened under his watch in 2020. And that old man...
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Looking back at 2020 in high school sports: A year like no otherDec 31, 2020 12:00 am - The 2019-2020 high school sports year started off like any other. Holiday basketball tournaments concluded, boys and girls hoops teams headed into the 2020 portion of th...
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For all our sakes, let's resolve to move together into a better futureDec 31, 2020 12:00 am - If there is one word to sum up 2020, I believe it would be "polarization." In the past, when we as a country experienced intense stress, grief and loss, it brought us t...
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Jim O'Donnell: What to expect from Sports world in 2021Dec 31, 2020 12:00 am - SO THIS IS New Year's. And who would believe? The sports figures still scurry around inside the giant TV screens, the stadiums empty. Final scores are posted and bets a...