Sports Columns
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After 5 years, Fire's Rolfe ready for his next challengeSep 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Things usually seem to work out pretty well for Chris Rolfe. As an unknown coming out of the University of Dayton in 2005, Rolfe just hoped to be noticed at the draft c...
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Bears fortunately able to exhale, get on with seasonSep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - As big a win as it was for Jay Cutler on Sunday against Pittsburgh, it might have been nearly as big for one other man: Lovie Smith. Yes, it seems laughable that an NFL ...
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Throwing rings now the thing for BabiczSep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - There has been some football withdrawal this fall for Matt Babicz. For the first time since he was 5 years old there are no games to prepare for or play. Watching his yo...
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Bradley the only winner ... or is he?Sep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - This wasn't decided by the time the Cubs suspended Milton Bradley, but odds are that he'll be paid despite sitting out the rest of the season. Rounding off his 2009 sala...
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Tillman saves the day - and maybe a whole lot moreSep 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Perhaps by definition, it seems unreasonable, or at least unfair, for a tipping point to arrive so early in an NFL season. But you could argue that no team faced greater...
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Bears learn a lot about themselvesSep 20, 2009 11:00 pm - The first few weeks of the regular season is like self-analysis for NFL teams. They spend days and weeks and months during the off-season participating in organized team...
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Tale of two big baseball contrastsSep 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Only something significant enables baseball to muscle between football games on a September Saturday. Jake Peavy and Milton Bradley provided it. Together they formed one...
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Salerno's leg is a weapon for NIUSep 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Here are two random Mike Salerno factoids that sound unrelated but aren't: Fact 1: Draft expert Mel Kiper ranks the Northern Illinois senior as the No. 5 kicking prospec...
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Williams' outburst a shock to our sensesSep 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Let me say right off the top that I don't approve of the little temper tantrum thrown by Serena Williams at the U.S. Open last week. She was out of line and over the top...
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Bergren delivers in first game as North Stars' full-time QBSep 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Opposing coaches who scouted St. Charles North the first three weeks of the season should have had a difficult task in Week 4. With Connor McShane, Matt Shiltz and Jake ...