Sports Columns
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Time to let results catch up to hypeOct 13, 2008 11:00 pm - John McDonough wasn't shy about using the "e" word Monday afternoon. The Blackhawks president was speaking to a gathering of fans on Madison Street at a club-concocted "...
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Too young to have all the answersOct 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Athletes like Bears defensive tackle Tommie Harris speak, journalists breathlessly scribble their thoughts, and fans digest them as gospel. As escapes from reality go, t...
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Bears didn't deserve to steal this oneOct 11, 2008 11:00 pm - ATLANTA - The right team won. It just happened the wrong way. As unlikely an ending as occurred down here Sunday afternoon, making a mockery of nearly 60 minutes in only...
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Fun's just beginningOct 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Halloween is fast approaching. That news flash brought to you in case you don't have a 4-year-old who changes his mind every day about who he wants to be for Halloween,...
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Three miles and counting: Scalf finds personal victory in runningOct 10, 2008 11:00 pm - My friend Abby Scalf and I laugh about it now. But she wasn't laughing months ago when she was about to do a three-mile run on her treadmill. "There's no way I can do th...
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A classic battle right to the final yardOct 10, 2008 11:00 pm - How fitting it was for this cross-town classic come down to three feet. Fremd had battled valiantly out of a 21-point hole after just 10 minutes. Palatine had battled va...
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Banuelos fills voidOct 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Hours before Wheaton Warrenville South hammered Wheaton North 45-14 on Friday, Tigers football coach Ron Muhitch taught a Reacting to Emergencies Class that included jun...
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Pilcher and family bleed Illini orange and blueOct 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Some want college football's letter-of-intent process to be modernized and accelerated - to account for recruits' increasing willingness to commit long before the curren...
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Do you feel unimportant as one person in a large group?Oct 09, 2008 11:00 pm - It's easy to feel overwhelmed by numbers, and I'm not talking about sports statistics. Statistics overwhelm in other ways. I mean numbers in general. You feel overwhelme...
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Wood's punting future remains up in the airOct 09, 2008 11:00 pm - It's "Football Video Games, 101." On fourth down in any football video game, no matter the field position, gamers will typically do what they're always hoping the coache...