Sports Columns
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Football Film Festival forges bondsSep 22, 2008 11:00 pm - How well do you know your son's varsity football coach? Better yet, how well do you know football? West Aurora football coach Buck Drach has found a way to get to know h...
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Area products revving up high-powered CarthageSep 22, 2008 11:00 pm - The high-powered Carthage College offense is making football games look like track meets, and area graduates have played lead roles. After piling up 641 total yards in a...
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Let's hope Bears have bold Plan BSep 22, 2008 11:00 pm - While waiting to see how Plan A works out, effective leaders already are exploring Plan B. You know, just in case. So the question is whether instead of merely pondering...
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Heat of battle or not, just no excuse for lossSep 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Tommie Harris was asked late Sunday afternoon whether the Buccaneers took a lot of cheap shots. "Yeah," he said. "Don't give them that," Alex Brown cautioned from the ne...
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These guys act like they belongSep 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Call Saturday's celebration subuded hysteria. Oh, sure, the Cubs, their fans and their entire so-called nation partied like it was 1984, '89, '98, '03 and '07. "There's ...
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Central issue: These Cubs make their own historySep 20, 2008 11:00 pm - They were called chokers. They were doomed to be victims of history. The 2008 Cubs, naturally, had been cursed. That archaic hyperbole was flushed Saturday with the stal...
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Owners of some big-name backs face decisionsSep 20, 2008 11:00 pm - What a headache it has become to be a Ryan Grant owner. Or a Maurice Jones-Drew owner. Or a Darren McFadden owner. All three of these running backs - especially Grant an...
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One more time, Tigers find a way to pull out victorySep 19, 2008 11:00 pm - How much leg was left in Nick Immekus? How much magic was left in Wheaton Warrenville South? Plenty. On both fronts. Immekus and the Tigers pulled off another miracle v...
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Hofstetter's hands all over this victorySep 19, 2008 11:00 pm - If the blocked field goals, tipped passes and recovered fumbles aren't enough to convince you Cory Hofstetter is a defensive end with few equals, check Vikings defensive...
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Red Stars get perfect "match" in franchise playersSep 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Add a little soccer to one of those Internet dating sites and you'd get what is known as "allocation" in Women's Professional Soccer. On Tuesday, the seven teams in the ...