Sports Columns
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50 years of IHSA playoff football: How Walter Payton helped inspire the 1986 Buffalo Grove BisonSep 13, 2024 6:00 am - To celebrate the 50th season of IHSA playoff football, the Daily Herald is looking back at some of our best team. We start with the 1986 Buffalo Grove Bison.
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The start of a beautiful friendship that formed because of a health conditionSep 12, 2024 6:00 am - Sharing a genetic condition forged a bond between a coach and a student at Hersey High School.
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‘Edgy’ Tim: Undefeated football teams led by Player of the Year candidatesSep 12, 2024 6:00 am - After this coming weekend's IHSA slate of football games, we will be a third of the way done with the regular season. Here is a very early look at several names to watch ...
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The difference in this weekend’s LIV Golf tournament at Bolingbrook? Show me the moneySep 12, 2024 6:00 am - Money. That’s what differentiates the LIV Tour’s third tournament in the Chicago market from the others in the circuit’s first three seasons. The event that tees off on F...
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Rahm, Niemann, DeChambeau bringing LIV Golf to BolingbrookSep 11, 2024 6:00 am - With Jon Rahm and Joaquin Neimann hoping to win the individual title, and Bryson DeChambeau aiming to continue his success in Illinois, LIV Golf is returning to the area this weekend at Bolingbrook Golf Club.
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O’Donnell: Novak happy to cheer, cheer for Hammock and old NIUSep 11, 2024 6:00 am - Jim O’Donnell: Joe Novak is happy to cheer, cheer for Thomas Hammock and old NIU.
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Dirty win gave Bears needed dose of realitySep 10, 2024 6:00 am - The Bears are 1-0, but the ugly first half against Tennessee provided a needed reality check for the players and all of Chicago. Preseason means nothing and Caleb Williams will have growing pains.
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College Achievers: An auspicious start for the Badgers’ BoltzSep 09, 2024 6:00 am - Fremd graduate Dean Boltz , a freshman soccer player at Wisconsin, led all NCAA Division I players in goals and points
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‘Edgy’ Tim: Early-season video already helping football recruitsSep 09, 2024 5:30 am - “Edgy” Tim O’Halloran says early-season video is already helping local football recruits.
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Lincicome: In the Era of Caleb, we will all be witnesses to what exactly?Sep 07, 2024 10:30 am - Most eras last several hundred years, including our present era, which began some time before electricity, not to put more pressure on Caleb Williams, who, at least, shou...