Sports Columns
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Dawson pours his heart out and has message for kids on the edgeJul 25, 2010 11:00 pm - COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - For Andre Dawson, a journey to the center of the baseball Earth was all about love, and Sunday afternoon he revealed unabashedly the secrets of his h...
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Cubs should make serious pitch for GirardiJul 23, 2010 11:00 pm - Joe Girardi and LeBron James look nothing alike. The former was a squatty, white, baseball player and the latter a tall, black, basketball player. Yet somehow Girardi an...
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Dawson: Big Frank a first-ballot lockJul 23, 2010 11:00 pm - COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Andre Dawson had to wait for election to the Hall of Fame, a victim of terrible timing and the steroid era that obliterated his once-great numbers. B...
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Fame coming into focus for DawsonJul 23, 2010 11:00 pm - COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - It's not easy for any of them to explain. The words are elusive. But for each, the moment the call arrives, the lives of Hall of Famers are forever a...
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Hey Cubs, So why not Ryne Sandberg?Jul 22, 2010 11:00 pm - Cubs general manager Jim Hendry gave a few hints the other day when he talked about what he wants in a new manager. "At the end of the day, we want the best manager movi...
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A dinner to remember at Chez WinkelmanJul 21, 2010 11:00 pm - BRAINERD, Minn. - I have eaten in some of the finest restaurants in this country, as well as having to fight the flies off my food in quite a number of dumps located on ...
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Playing days coming to an end, Corn focuses on coachingJul 20, 2010 11:00 pm - The foundation of local sports is strengthened when former players give back to the community in a coaching capacity. Most high school and travel coaches grew up playing...
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Fire may have acquired special player with CastilloJul 20, 2010 11:00 pm - Cuauhtemoc Blanco is not coming back to the Fire. Disappointed? There's no reason you should be. The Fire is better off without Blanco. He served the team well for thre...
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For Lou, it's the right call at wrong timeJul 20, 2010 11:00 pm - The irony of all that happened - or didn't happen - Tuesday at Wrigley Field is that four years ago the Cubs wanted nothing to do with Joe Girardi. As in slim and none, ...
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Piniella did more good than bad with CubsJul 20, 2010 11:00 pm - Like Don Baylor and Dusty Baker before him, Lou Piniella rode into Chicago nearly four years ago with hopes of being the manager who would lead the Cubs to the World Ser...