Sports Columns
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Hawk games snarled in corporate TV gamesmanshipMay 15, 2009 11:00 pm - For many Blackhawk fans, from here on out the Stanley Cup playoffs are going to be a case of us Versus the cable or satellite company. NBC will air Sunday's opening game...
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Playing make-believe pays off big-time for KustokMay 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Sarah Kustok used to be a big phony. A fake. That's how the former DePaul basketball star got good at TV. Good enough, in fact, to earn a full-time position at Comcast S...
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IHSA needs to nix predetermined regional mayhemMay 15, 2009 11:00 pm - I think this happens every year. It's the Friday of track sectionals, so Mother Nature conjures up rain and lightning and thunder and rain and lightning and ... well, yo...
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Driscoll-Montini game marks end of a storied rivalryMay 14, 2009 11:00 pm - For decades it's been considered one of the state's best high school sports rivalries. Tonight, it ends. Driscoll and Montini meet athletically for the last time when th...
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How sweet it finally is for Evans, WittMay 14, 2009 11:00 pm - The proof is in the peanut butter cups. If Lake Zurich baseball coach Gary Simon didn't know already that he has an incredibly balanced team this season, all he'd have t...
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Conference changes could be coming soon - yet againMay 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Mike Gaspari has been through the conference shuffle more than he'd care to remember, and he's certainly not looking forward to doing it again. Especially so soon after ...
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Metea Valley shaping upMay 13, 2009 11:00 pm - The slab for the pool bleachers has been poured... The drain and concrete curb have been installed around the future eight-lane track... The softball and baseball dugout...
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Dierks' idea promotes pals, and players, for GenevaMay 13, 2009 11:00 pm - With high school coaches not just concerned with how their current teams are doing but also keeping an eye toward future success, you've got to give Geneva softball coac...
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Continuing to quietly get job doneMay 13, 2009 11:00 pm - There was one man conspicuous by his absence during the Blackhawks' postgame celebration Monday night. There were a lot of folks front and center, searching for camera l...
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'NA 34' remain's Henry's heroMay 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Duane Gigeous sees the similarities in the boys he raised. As he watched his 15-year-old freshman son, Henry, start his first varsity game for Jacobs High School on Wedn...