Sports Columns
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O’Donnell: Breaking down a Sweet and Sour SixteenMar 25, 2025 6:25 pm - Jim O’Donnell: Breaking down a Sweet and Sour Sixteen for the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.
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Illinois golfers eye Masters spotsMar 25, 2025 3:28 pm - University of Illinois alums Thomas Detry and Brian Campbell will be playing in this year’s Masters golf tournament.
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White on a roll bodes well for Bulls’ futureMar 24, 2025 8:57 pm - Bulls guard Coby White won his second straight Eastern Conference player of the week award and carried a 12-game streak of scoring at least 20 points into Monday’s game at Denver.
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The area’s top girls basketball performances of the seasonMar 24, 2025 7:41 pm - This week’s High Five honors the area’s top girls basketball performances of the season.
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Hovland back on top with victory at Valspar ChampionshipMar 23, 2025 6:22 pm - Viktor Hovland is back on top after Sunday’s PGA Tour victory at the Valspar Championship.
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Dietz: Time to kick Blackhawks’ rebuild into overdriveMar 23, 2025 5:48 pm - John Dietz writes about the Blackhawks’ constant losing and the need to kick the rebuild into overdrive.
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Jim O’Donnell: Bernstein prompts his own catch-and-release by ‘The Score’Mar 22, 2025 4:36 pm - Chicago media veteran Dan Bernstein was fired Friday by management at WSCR, 670-AM. Bernstein's function-delete transgression at “The Score” was to get into a thoroughly pointless social media crossfire with a face in the crowd who questioned a recent photo of the 54-year-old North Shore native hoisting a fish he had caught at Northerly Island. Following baited public lure, management patience regarding Dan Bernstein caught and released Friday.
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Lincicome: It’s a mad, mad March and we’re stuck in itMar 22, 2025 10:00 am - Nothing deflates like a busted bracket and mine broke early. My team to win it all, Kansas, could not win even one game, losing immediately to a team named, in Ozark speak, Ar-Kansas, not to be confused with Yer-Kansas, and that’s that.
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Blackhawks’ 10 most important positive developments from another lost seasonMar 21, 2025 8:12 am - We all understand the Blackhawks’ situation by now. It’s not a secret. But is it really as bleak as things seem? As things feel? Are we missing the forest for the trees? Yes and no.
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Saying farewell to another prep basketball seasonMar 20, 2025 4:49 pm - Let’s take one last look at the prep basketball season.