Sports Columns
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The ABCs of the baseball seasonMar 31, 2024 6:00 am - With baseball season so fresh you can still smell the hot dog mustard, duty demands baseball predictions. Anybody can do that. But can they do it in alphabetical order?
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Is it possible for gambling to seep into high school sports?Mar 29, 2024 5:44 am - With gambling scandals becoming a regular occurrence in the professional and college sports landscape, is it possible for something similar to happen at the high school level?
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Silvy: Stop with the cliches, it’s time for Bears to fully embrace changeMar 28, 2024 5:21 pm - The winds of change are blowing through Halas Hall like those early spring winds off of Lake Michigan. At times it can be cold and cruel. Just ask Justin Fields.
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Museum piece: Soldiering on toward an IBCA hall of fameMar 28, 2024 6:00 am - A couple weeks ago we reported on the annual Fox Valley Basketball Reunion retired Batavia boys basketball coach Jim Roberts puts together. In the crowd was Bob Ward, the...
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Our baseball story starts with Wrigley Field’s outfield wallMar 28, 2024 6:00 am - In March 1922, my father arrived in Chicago from Sweden, a month shy of his 20th birthday. He initially stayed with his faster (aunt), and in a letter to his parents he wrote that he was told that he could find every kind of work. All he had to do was choose.
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O’Donnell: Will Mulkey profile touch on Morrow transfer from DePaul?Mar 27, 2024 6:00 am - Will the upcoming Washington Post profile on LSU coach Kim Mulkey reference Aneesah Morrow’s transfer from DePaul?
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Malnati wins Valspar ChampionshipMar 24, 2024 7:38 pm - Peter Malnati won the Valspar Championship in Florida
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Of March and Madness and all the other pairsMar 24, 2024 6:15 am - Madness and March have been with us ever since the hare stuffed the dormouse into the teapot, so there is no disputing its existence. How it came to have anything to do w...
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Jim O’Donnell: Eagle hoops ahead with NCAA men’s baton from NantzMar 24, 2024 6:00 am - AS CORONATIONS GO, the NCAA men's basketball ascendancy of Ian Eagle had plenty of circumstance but little pomp Friday. Out of a midday promo for “Young Sheldon” on C...
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Even in the midst of Madness, it’s easy to miss MarchMar 22, 2024 6:00 am - Even with March Madness in full swing, it’s easy to miss the high school basketball season.