Sports Columns
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Baseball Way Back: Jerry Reuss was a pitcher taking picturesSep 23, 2023 1:00 am - During a 22-year major league career, Jerry Reuss won 220 games with a 3.64 ERA. His major league road was well traveled, with stops in St. Louis, Houston, Pittsburgh, L...
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Ziehm: A party atmosphere at Rich Harvest Farm as LIV tournament returnsSep 22, 2023 1:00 am - The second version of the LIV Tour's Chicago stop at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove got off to a rousing start Friday, complete with blaring music and a countdown tha...
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Golfer Gooch looks to make a move at LIV's Rich Harvest eventSep 21, 2023 1:00 am - The big stars were Cameron Smith and Dustin Johnson when the LIV Tour made its Chicago debut at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove last year. No surprise there. Smith was...
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Jim O'Donnell: Are the McCaskeys moving closer to selling their blundering Bears?Sep 20, 2023 1:00 am - TWO DEFLATING LOSSES INTO A STILLBORN SEASON, the teeming jeer club is hardly short on avid supporters. Who doesn't want the McCaskey family to sell the Chicago Bears? T...
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Lincicome: Looks like the Bears are again stuck trying to fix Justin FieldsSep 17, 2023 5:30 am - Lint pickers and favorite aunts may still love Justin Fields, and yet the number is dwindling, given voice by hometown boos barely one half into another broken promise. ...
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Jim O'Donnell: King-Riggs "Battle of the Sexes" pushed TV sports into a brave new worldSep 17, 2023 5:30 am - AS A LANDMARK TV EVENT, the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs "Battle of the Sexes" remains on the same high pop cultural plane as the first appearance of the Beatles on "Ed ...
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Suburban swimmers will take Olympic dreams to IndianapolisSep 17, 2023 1:00 am - The COVID-19 pandemic took its toll on the training regimen of many athletes. Not Brayden Capen. Capen, a Lisle resident who is a freshman at Marmion Academy in Aurora a...
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Jim O'Donnell: Under the 'D,' the Bears are turning September into desolation rowSep 13, 2023 1:00 am - WHO SAID THAT THE BEARS DIDN'T flash a lot of "D" at Soldier Field last Sunday? Disgraceful … distasteful … disgusting. The team appeared about as prepared for their 38-...
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How high school coaches are helping ensure 9/11 is never forgottenSep 11, 2023 5:00 am - 9/11. Like Pearl Harbor Day (December 7), or the day JFK was assassinated (November 22), 9/11 is a day that will forever live in infamy. That day in 2001, when terrorist...
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Ziehm: Why Luke Donald is under fire for his Ryder Cup picksSep 11, 2023 1:00 am - The rosters are set for the Ryder Cup matches and, as usual, the captains are catching heat for some of their selections. Europe's Luke Donald, though, is catching much ...