Sports Columns
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Bush-league series a big hitMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - You can't go wrong making a movie or a TV show about minor-league baseball. It simply can't be done. The humble, unassuming players, sprinkled with the inevitable pheno...
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Marzejon-Ross rivalry, expected or not, is specialMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - The most exciting moments in sports are the unexpected ones, upsets in particular. That's what makes the emergence this spring of Jacobs track star Sarah Ross as a bona ...
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They're dedicated -- togetherMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Phooey on summer vacation. Who needs it? Not Logan Kent. Not this year, anyway. Summer vacation will bring with it major shoulder surgery for the Antioch baseball stando...
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Saints learning the importance of giving backMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - St. Charles East boys volleyball coach Stephanie Gooden is all about her players volunteering. After all, when she was a coach in Ohio, it was mandatory they gave back t...
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Scouts know the names, but it's tough to project the futureMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - I was wrong, but I wasn't alone. Most of the baseball scouts also were wrong. The biggest mistake I ever made in evaluating high school baseball talent in this area came...
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Guillen comes out swinging in support of WalkerMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - All evidence to the contrary, Ozzie Guillen does not actually believe he knows everything. But there is one thing of which the White Sox manager is absolutely certain. "...
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Loyalty in hirings a LeGrand ideaMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Jeff Brooke and Jack LeGrand are among the nicest guys you'll find in prep sports. They have been rewarded with head coaching jobs at Wheaton Academy and Timothy Christ...
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St. Edward, Hampshire have high hopes entering postseasonMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Here we go again. Just as it used to be easy to look at the postseason pairings in volleyball and basketball, it was also easy to look at the IHSA softball state tournam...
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Wendell will be missed at BGMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - Those who know John Wendell best know it doesn't take much to get him going. Ask him about his baseball field and it usually has the Buffalo Grove coach ranting about it...
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Callanan's drive produces high fiveMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - A high five would have seemed more fitting. Instead, after Lindsay Callanan raced home all the way from second base on a wild pitch, she and equally jacked teammate Shay...