Sports Columns
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Basketball's most stressful season gets goingMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - The Class 3A and 4A boys state finals are here. Basketball season is winding down. But alas, recruiting season is just starting to heat up. Let the "real" games begin. A...
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Creating memories on the basketball courtMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Good stories have long shelf lives. Feb. 20 was senior night for Wheaton North's boys basketball team. The Falcons hosted Naperville Central in a game to decide the DuPa...
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Another season filled with more highlights than lowlightsMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - As a high school boys basketball beat writer for the Daily Herald, I'm fortunate to chronicle the often amazing accomplishments of area players and coaches throughout th...
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Leading question: Hey, Lou, what's up with your lineup?Mar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - MESA, Ariz. -- At one point during Thursday morning's friendly sparring session with reporters, Cubs manager Lou Piniella looked to national broadcaster Dave Campbell fo...
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Local basketball players making impact at collegiate levelMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - It's time to check on how some of our local players are doing in Division I women's college basketball: • Candace Parker (Naperville Central Class of 2004) poured in 28 ...
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Your winners in this weekend's boys basketball tourneyMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Just because the IHSA abandoned tradition doesn't mean it's a four-gone conclusion the Daily Herald will do the same. Expansion from two to four classes might seem to be...
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ESPN casts a lovely spell with 'Black Magic' documentaryMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Between Black History Month and the start of the NCAA Tournament, ESPN presents a new miniseries called "Black Magic," and it's all the more powerful for not trying to e...
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Polly Hirt's athletic career follows familiar, successful arcMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - About the time she started realizing she wasn't going to soar any higher, and that she was scraping the ceiling of her gymnastics potential, Polly Hirt began to plummet....
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Tallon faces tough off-season decisionsMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Surely everyone has noticed the Blackhawks making a strong push for a playoff spot without Nikolai Khabibulin and Martin Havlat, their two highest-paid players. What doe...
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Elgin's Rohlman finally gets to see 'his' school in a superMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - It took 28 years, but Art Rohlman was finally able to watch "his" school play in a supersectional. Rohlman, the longtime DeKalb High School athletic director who has bee...