Sports Columns
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Memorable time comes to tough endNov 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Andrew Corso has a bright future with a 4.0 grade point average, a No. 1 class ranking and plans that could include studying mechanical engineering at an Ivy League scho...
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Athletics in good hands at MeteaNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The youngest sister school of Indian Prairie School District 204 high schools Waubonsie Valley and Neuqua Valley, Metea Valley will welcome freshman and sophomore studen...
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Kull keeps winning tradition aliveNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - At the start of a season, some teams decide to adopt a team motto or theme. By the end of the season, however, sometimes teams don't live up to their theme. Not the St. ...
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These surprise RBs may get you where you want to goNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - It happens nearly every year. In the middle of the season, a running back or two pops up out of nowhere and starts running all over the place, piling up yards and touchd...
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Going own way isn't the answerNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - I think about Wheaton Warrenville South beating Joliet Catholic in double overtime to claim the 1992 Class 5A state football championship. I think about Downers Grove So...
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Dazzling? Dreadful? That's Bears to a 'D'Nov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The Bears' manic-depressive defense has observers and players alike scratching their heads. On one hand the Bears, with 26, are seventh best in the NFL at forcing three-...
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Once again, Santo on pins and needles over Hall callNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The ballots have been cast. The votes are being counted. And now Ron Santo waits - again. He waits and fights through sleepless nights, and tries with all his might to k...
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Not much glory, but plenty of gutsNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Football players are always telling me that, perhaps more than in any other sport, teammates are like family, like brothers. During the course of a long, long season tha...
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Russell more than ready to take reigns of D-C programNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - When one person rules the roost over a high school athletic program for 26 years, and is the only head coach that program has ever known, the new coach would seemingly b...
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Wauconda's Mead fills the needNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - It's arriving 20 minutes early, without a yawn, for a 5:30 a.m. basketball practice, as she did Wednesday. It's being inspired to want to help others by visits to the ho...