Sports Columns
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Can we expect Tiger to come back this week better than ever?Feb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - When Tiger Woods blew through town for the BMW near the end of the 2007 season, he was playing perhaps the best golf of his life. He was in a torrid stretch where he was...
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Bears just refuse to be fat and happyFeb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - Chicago is a big fat town. Look around and you'll find big fat burgers and burritos and big fat bellies and butts. What you won't find anymore is big fat defensive tackl...
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Just like in '77, these Bulls could surpriseFeb 22, 2009 10:00 pm - INDIANAPOLIS - There was once a Bulls team that featured a brand new center, small backcourt and a rookie chosen high in the draft. That squad appeared headed for a medi...
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This is the year - for Piniella, at leastFeb 22, 2009 10:00 pm - This is the season Lou Piniella becomes an all-time baseball boom or just another Cubs managerial bust. Expectations have expiration dates for even the most esteemed spo...
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With Huet hot, it's time for Blackhawks to dealFeb 20, 2009 10:00 pm - One would have to think the Blackhawks are back where they were last summer, which is seriously trying to get something in a trade for Nikolai Khabibulin. The Hawks thou...
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Piniella on a real 'roll' with leadoff situationFeb 20, 2009 10:00 pm - The quickest way to elicit an eye roll from anybody in the Cubs family is to start a sentence with, "Lou just said." In other words, you can go up to a relief pitcher an...
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Now this is 'enormous' pressureFeb 20, 2009 10:00 pm - Somebody should introduce baseball player Alex Rodriguez to former baseball player Lou Brissie. The former could learn something from the latter about grace under pressu...
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Sideline reporter Dales leaving ESPN a 'first-class' diva moveFeb 20, 2009 10:00 pm - Let's talk about perspective. People are losing their jobs by the millions. They're losing their homes, too. Many of us who do still have jobs are being asked to take pa...
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Komaromy's touch has helped Gators to best season everFeb 20, 2009 10:00 pm - When Joe Komaromy "retired" from coaching girls basketball last season after 26 years at the helm of the Crown then Dundee-Crown program, he really didn't envision being...
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Another big test for West rivalsFeb 19, 2009 10:00 pm - This is one of those dates on a schedule you circle and save. One that more than 3,000 fans in Schaumburg's gym tonight will have waited for and anticipated for months. ...