Sports Columns
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Block, Fortune learned how to overcome difficultiesJun 10, 2010 11:00 pm - One left home to encounter culture shock. The other left home and a country embraced her. Dan Block and Leah Fortune - the 2008-09 male and female senior athletes as vo...
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A bountiful day with 'Green Acres'Jun 09, 2010 11:00 pm - I headed home after one of my best bass days in a couple years. I was tired, traffic was heavy and I decided to turn off the air conditioning and open the truck's window...
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5-decade journey completeJun 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Any time a Chicago team wins a sports championship, distant memories are as vivid as the current one. So when the Blackhawks won their first Stanley Cup since 1961, the ...
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An end to nightmares and a hockey dream come trueJun 09, 2010 11:00 pm - PHILADELPHIA - A half-century is time enough to ponder the nightmares of Finals lost, of Cups stolen, of hopes shattered. There was decade after decade of abject misery ...
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For USA to have a chance, it all starts with DonovanJun 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Someone is about to become a hero known in every corner of the world, a legend for the ages. Someone else likely will become a goat in the minds of billions of people ac...
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Bob Nelson - remembering a man who would do anything for youJun 08, 2010 11:00 pm - I can't recall the first time I met Bob Nelson -it's been too many years. But I can recall the first time I saw Bob coach a Little League Baseball game. It was in 1979 w...
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Will Game 6 be another Niemi night?Jun 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Lost amid the Blackhawks' incredible offensive production in the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals has been the utter lack of goaltending at both ends of the ice. After all, you d...
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Road clinch would be so special in The RoomJun 08, 2010 11:00 pm - There are romper rooms and hotel rooms, spare rooms and chat rooms, boardrooms and barrooms, classrooms and, uh, mushrooms. Then there is simply The Room. That's how hoc...
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Even while winning 61 games, Cavs made huge mistakeJun 08, 2010 11:00 pm - A chaotic front office doesn't figure to help Cleveland's cause when it comes to retaining LeBron James this summer. In many ways, it's a sad situation. After producing ...
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Stevenson understands that winning takes sacrificeJun 07, 2010 11:00 pm - LOVES PARK - Corey Lasky came up in the top of the seventh inning with a chance to do something memorable for himself Monday. Stevenson already had a 2-run cushion that ...