Sports Columns
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Red Stars seen nothing but better days ahead next seasonAug 18, 2009 11:00 pm - As a season-ending montage played on the Toyota Park videoboard following the Red Stars' final home game of the season Aug. 2, defender Natalie Spilger watched from the ...
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Even Packers fans don't deserve thisAug 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Brett Favre stood at a podium late Tuesday afternoon, held up a No. 4 Vikings jersey to his chest and smiled for clicking cameras. All I could think was that Favre's chi...
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Everybody's sorry about somethingAug 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Blackhawks winger Patrick Kane's apology was short Monday morning, if not necessarily sweet. Thank goodness it wasn't short and tweet, which is how so many athletes expr...
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Peavy can't wait to start pitching in for new teamAug 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Jake Peavy does not hate the Cubs. So if it's going to happen, it will have to be an acquired distaste. In the meantime, Peavy is grateful for the Cubs' long-running int...
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Big Z: He iz what he izAug 16, 2009 11:00 pm - It was Rain Delay Theater at Wrigley Field on Sunday afternoon, with Carlos Zambrano in the lead role. During a morning media briefing, Big Z admitted the problem with h...
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Verdict's still out on CutlerAug 14, 2009 11:00 pm - An NFL team's first preseason game is as inconclusive as a prosecutor's opening argument. The first quarter of that game is like his opening vowel. Yet right now those 1...
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Lopez hopes Solheim's 'Big Girls' inspire her 'Little Girls'Aug 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Some of the best female golfers in the world will be in the Chicago area next week to play in the Solheim Cup. Or, as golf legend Nancy Lopez fondly refers to them: the ...
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Expectations for Cutler just SuperAug 13, 2009 11:00 pm - On the seventh day, God rested - and Sid Luckman made his first NFL start. Not suggesting it's been a long time since the best QB in the history of the Bears actually pl...
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Will anyone step up and lead Cubs?Aug 12, 2009 11:00 pm - There's an age-old debate in baseball about the need for momentum and whether it even exists in a game driven by starting pitching. After all, a 12-1 victory means littl...
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Fields quickly putting his stamp on St. Charles East programAug 12, 2009 11:00 pm - ACDC fans rejoice. If you can't get enough of Back in Black, it's going to be coming at you twice as often this fall. Not only will it be blaring when the Knights take t...