Sports Columns
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Bears safety: 'We're the best team in the NFL'Nov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The Bears certainly aren't suffering from low self-esteem. Their 5-3 record is good enough for first place in the NFC North, but it pales in comparison to this week's op...
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Is NU-Ohio State game a classic in the making?Nov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - The stars have aligned. The tea leaves have done whatever they do to send clear messages to those who read them. The numerology has become too obvious to ignore. It's so...
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Smith set to take her game, N. Stars to even higher levelNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - When basketball has taken you as many places as it has St. Charles North senior Kelsey Smith - and will take you to even more - it's an easy game to love. Smith spent a...
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Looking far and wide to find good playoff matchupsNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Here are a handful of tasty matchups from outside the Daily Herald coverage area as we enter Week 11, or Round 2 of the IHSA state football playoffs. Class 8A ...
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The Best...a look at the lighter side of sportsNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - For many people, fall is their favorite season. But as the leaves turn so does the weather, forcing spectators and athletes into conditions as fickle as a fifth-grade c...
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Don't waste time! Every second of every day is valuableNov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - As the end of my career at this newspaper approaches, I find myself looking through the mountain of files I have accumulated through the years. I save almost everything,...
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'Fab Four' gearing up for run at Elite Eight statusNov 05, 2008 10:00 pm - They were the best four football teams in the northern Fox Valley throughout the regular season, so it's no surprise that Bartlett, Cary-Grove, Crystal Lake South and Hu...
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Progress good to see in any sectorNov 04, 2008 10:00 pm - The historic impact of this presidential election hit home for this sports writer during last spring's primaries. A woman and a mixed-race man already were vying for the...
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Titans beatable, but Bears not playing like the team to do itNov 04, 2008 10:00 pm - The Tennessee Titans are undefeated, but they can be beaten - but probably not by the Bears the way they've been playing. Jeff Fisher's overachieving squad is 8-0 but ne...
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Appreciating R&R in the DoorNov 04, 2008 10:00 pm - EPHRAIM, Wis. - My favorites places are on opposite sides of the map, and yet I can't always break away to go there - to Florida's Lower Keys and to Massachusetts and it...