Sports Columns
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Losses don't diminish what this Dundee-Crown team accomplishedMar 20, 2009 11:00 pm - PEORIA - Losing both games played here at the Class 4A Final Four wasn't what the Dundee-Crown boys basketball team had in mind, but those defeats don't obscure what a s...
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Despite supersectional defeat, Neuqua still DuPage's bestMar 19, 2009 11:00 pm - This space was originally saved for a tribute to Neuqua Valley becoming the first Naperville boys basketball program to reach the IHSA state semifinals. As we all know,...
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Cubs' Lee chooses survival over WBCMar 19, 2009 11:00 pm - Jim Hendry probably had a vision of Derrek Lee returning to the Cubs from the World Baseball Classic minus his spleen. Now, contrary to popular belief, the spleen is a u...
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Will the second time of state predictions be charmed?Mar 19, 2009 11:00 pm - Watching the first boys basketball semifinal last year was a frightening experience. This was my first foray into continuing the annual Daily Herald tradition of predict...
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From this pain, Hawks will gainMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - You learn nothing from easy. Those were the words of a coach whose name I can't remember, and if I could I'd still want to curse at him for all the sideboards he had us ...
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Wait is over: spring angling has startedMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - I didn't pay too much attention to the half-dozen robins flitting in and out of my back yard. Even though their voices stood out from the din of nearby vehicular traffi...
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Well-rounded Fire to be atop deep, talented EastMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - After examining Major League Soccer's Western Conference last week, we preview the stronger half of the league on the day of the season opener. Here's a look at the Eas...
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Supers really were with Korcek, RohlmanMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Every time you go to any type of sports event, there are people working behind the scenes that you don't know and probably never will, yet those are the people responsib...
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Local girls go National to enjoy success on the trackMar 18, 2009 11:00 pm - To win the girls pentathlon at the Nike Indoor Nationals last weekend in Boston, Waubonsie Valley senior Shakeia Pinnick needed to beat Michigan's Ariel Roberts by 15 se...
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This camp more fantasy than miniMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Halasphere in lovely Lake Forest, Ill. The Chicago Bears football team has commenced on this St. Patrick's Day what is known in the...