Sports Columns
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Build up to June’s U.S. Open already has begunApr 17, 2024 6:00 am - Although the Masters just ended, the build up to the U.S. Open in June already has begun.
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High Five: The top NFL draft picks from the areaApr 17, 2024 6:00 am - This week’s High Five looks at the top area football players drafted in the NFL
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Not ideal, but Bulls’ matchup with Atlanta could be funApr 17, 2024 6:00 am - Sure a 9 vs. 10 play-in game is kind of lame, but the Bulls’ matchup with Atlanta on Wednesday at the United Center could be fun.
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Wheaton Academy’s Scharnowski shines for AlabamaApr 15, 2024 6:00 am - Wheaton Academy graduate Max Scharnowski won a Final Four award for highest grade-point average.
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O.J. Simpson, the story that keeps having to be toldApr 14, 2024 6:00 am - By rough count, I suppose I have written more than 10,000 words on O.J. Simpson, most of them when he was a football player, one of the best, when twice a season he played for the team that played the team where I once worked.
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Jim O'Donnell: O.J. should have sat out the final two quarters of his shattered, battering lifeApr 14, 2024 6:00 am - O.J. SIMPSON CAME TO NATIONAL CELEBRITY during a reset decade in which America thought disco had legs and Black and White could finally forever live on in harmony.
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What is the Counsell difference for the Cubs?Apr 13, 2024 11:48 am - I have a lot of questions. I don’t have many answers.
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Slow start a concern, but Hendricks usually figures things outApr 12, 2024 7:53 pm - Should the Cubs be concerned about Kyle Hendricks’ rough start? Maybe, but he’s fought through tough stretches before.
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Aaron home run still brings back wonderful memoriesApr 12, 2024 6:00 am - Fifty years later, Hank Aaron’s record-breaking home run still brings back wonderful family memories.
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Vernon Hills hockey coach in the Female Coaches SpotlightApr 11, 2024 6:00 am - Lead supervisor and head coach of the Little Blackhawks program at Glacier and all introductory hockey initiatives there, Charice Paoli in March was included among 85 female hockey coaches worldwide in the NHLCA program’s Female Coaches Spotlight.