Sports Columns
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Baylor's Griner could revolutionize women's basketballJan 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Attention women's basketball haters: Brittney Griner may win even YOU over. Have you heard about her yet? Griner is the 6-foot-8 Baylor freshman who is turning heads wit...
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Phillips make sense? Chances are remoteJan 08, 2010 10:00 pm - The more you think about it, the more club president Ted Phillips' very premise for keeping the Bears' management team intact is illogical. No wonder that the remote con...
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Fremd's Lombard honored to compete in All-American BowlJan 07, 2010 10:00 pm - Some random ramblings while waiting for the latest snowstorm of the century to finally end - Star search for Lombard: Most of us probably wish we were in San Antonio rig...
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No doubt about Huisel's sports acumenJan 07, 2010 10:00 pm - While high school athletes seem to constantly be getting bigger, faster and stronger, they also might be getting more provincial. I'm not talking about their view of the...
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With a little luck, Hawks could be dancingJan 07, 2010 10:00 pm - It's a long way away and a lot has to go their way before there's any dancing with the Stanley Cup in Chicago, but there's no shame in believing that halfway through the...
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Call to Hall goes a long way to ease some of Dawson's painJan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - It was just another nondescript night in Montreal, back in the early '90s, except that on this night Andre Dawson was in even more pain than usual. The Cubs had announce...
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Senior year at ND is best year yet for Bartlett grad SchraderJan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - This may sound awfully cliché but it really does seem like just yesterday that Lindsay Schrader was leading the Bartlett girls basketball team to its best season in prog...
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Pinnick, Johnson warming up to new surroundingsJan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - It was a reunion of sorts at Waubonsie Valley. Climbing the bleachers Dec. 23 to watch their alma mater play Aurora Central Catholic at Waubonsie's holiday boys basketba...
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Beebe enjoying new role; Catching up with 'K.P.'Jan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - Until assigned to cover Aurora Christian football this fall, the first image this writer conjured at the mention of Don Beebe was the little receiver, seen in a football...
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'Green Acres' is the place you ought to beJan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - While scouring the mountains in Montana one time, I've encountered people who could have easily been mistaken for Grizzly Adams. They were hermits living off the land, s...