Sports Columns
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Konerko starting to clickAug 07, 2008 11:00 pm - The Ken Griffey deal was a sure sign that the White Sox couldn't wait any longer for Paul Konerko to get it going. But you get the feeling that despite the proactive mov...
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How Cubs, White Sox stack up with Cards, Red Sox historicallyAug 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Let's pick a baseball season, say, 1967. That's as good of a place to start as any for today's fun little exercise. In one of those rare, serendipitous quirks of the sc...
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Athlete, family strike goldAug 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Some parents can scarcely make it through a child's kindergarten play without suffering apoplexy or aneurysm, fearing the slightest misstep and the agony of failure. One...
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Lake Delavan experience delivers a bite to rememberAug 06, 2008 11:00 pm - DELAVAN, Wis. - I shouldn't have listened to Spence Petros after he told me to leave my tackle bag in my vehicle. I wanted a box of weedless frog baits because this lake...
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The Kid sure has grown upAug 05, 2008 11:00 pm - The hat and the bat looked familiar. Ken Griffey Jr.'s two trademarks were with him as he walked into a Comiskey Park auditorium Tuesday afternoon. Griffey wore the ha...
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Favre saga has familiar, scary ring to itAug 04, 2008 11:00 pm - The Brett Favre mess remains fluid. You could read anything into Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy's news conference being canceled Monday night. Favre might have been desig...
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Cubs push right buttons; panic button for Sox?Aug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Call it a tale of one city. Sunday, the Cubs were in Wrigley Field toying with the Pirates. Meanwhile, the scoreboard showed the Royals battering the White Sox. Everythi...
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Is Hammon a 'traitor' for playing for Russia?Aug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - I enjoy the Olympics, but over the years I've found that watching what takes place on the medal stands is often better than watching the actual competitions themselves -...
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Williams needs to roll with his critics' punchesAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - My goodness, Kenny, give it a rest already. The paranoia is getting a little old. The sensitivity is starting to be insensitive. In Saturday's editions, our Scot Gregor ...
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Expect little, and Junior might surpriseJul 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Never did I think the names of Geoff Blum and Ken Griffey could wind up in the same story, let alone the same paragraph. But there they are, in the same sentence, separa...