Sports Columns
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Markgraf happily redefining 'soccer mom'Jun 18, 2010 11:00 pm - Everyone needs some "me" time. For Kate Markgraf, that's what soccer has become. It's no longer just a passion, a longtime love or even a job. Soccer is the time she get...
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St. Viator's Sipiora 'ultimate team guy'Jun 18, 2010 11:00 pm - Plenty of star athletes use their power to repel others. Some will bask in the spotlight even if it turns off teammates and coaches. Others will try to use their status ...
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Fishing's fun, but business comes first for MacuilisJun 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Our telephone conversations usually last for an hour or more, and we seem to chat about countless outdoor topics that are relevant to today as well as some stuff we both...
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The Hawks' will to win a rare and special qualityJun 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Hard to believe it's been a week already. Seems like only yesterday that I landed at O'Hare International Airport after a wildly hysterical and supremely historical nigh...
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No room for mistakes when USA plays SloveniaJun 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Now that each team has played in the 2010 World Cup, here are a few of the things we've learned: The United States can't lose: No, really, the United States can't afford...
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Notre Dame wants (but shouldn't get) everythingJun 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Notre Dame is starting to get irritating. Fighting Irish athletics always have been an irritant to many people, of course, but don't count me among them. I disagree with...
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LeBron for Rose? Hey, who knows?Jun 14, 2010 11:00 pm - A few of us sat around the table eating dinner before the Cubs-White Sox game the other night in Wrigley Field. We were waiting for a baseball game to start, plus the lo...
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Wherever Hawks go, wonderment followsJun 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Remarkable happens wherever the Blackhawks go these days. Send them to Springfield and the deficit would go poof. Send them to South Africa and the United States would w...
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When the dream comes true, speaking is hard to doJun 11, 2010 11:00 pm - One by one, the players are asked to describe their feelings. But, "There are no words." That is what you read at the end of the fabulous NHL commercial where winners ar...
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Trainers take giant leap in establishing head trauma protocolJun 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Knees can be repaired and even replaced. Ankles, elbows and shoulders will heal. But as veteran Hersey athletic trainer Hal Hilmer put it, "You only have one brain and y...