Sports Columns
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Appreciating the Bears first-round draft choiceApr 25, 2008 11:00 pm - It takes maturity to appreciate the Bears' first-round draft choice. Most years a football fan would say, "An offensive lineman? They took a freakin" offensive lineman? ...
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Jacobs proving it will be Valley contenderApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - The Jacobs baseball team flew under the radar early this season, partly because of ominous radar returns. Persistent bad weather on game days kept the Golden Eagles from...
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Expect Bears to hold that lineApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Bears general manager Jerry Angelo always has placed a premium on drafting linemen early -- on both sides of the ball -- and that will be a common theme league-wide this...
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Three track heroes establish marks that stand the test of timeApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Two things will happen this weekend that figure prominently on my personal calendar. I start getting serious about high school track and field again, and I clean and put...
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As draft day nears, Bears become only game in townApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - With the Cubs and White Sox both in first place, we interrupt the baseball season for the following important announcement: Chicago is a Bears town, and don't you forget...
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Former Cougars making major impact with A'sApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - It really is amazing what can happen in a span of a year. Just ask Travis Buck, who played for the Kane County Cougars in 2005. He went from being just another rookie on...
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First class, second hallApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - The Illinois Basketball Coaches Association honors its 2008 Hall of Fame induction class Saturday at Illinois State University in Normal. The local contingent is led by...
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Richards is living the dream as an NBA prospectApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - At some point, Jason Richards is supposed to wake up from the dream. The one where the lightly recruited kid out of Barrington nearly turns Davidson College into one of ...
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Dzialo's girls are getting used to new system, coachApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - As head of the boys soccer program at Jacobs High School for the past seven seasons, coach Jim Dzialo might not have known exactly what to expect on the girls end enteri...
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Close call means LZ's Witt will have to sitApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - One day Tanner Witt was feeling fine. The next, his arm started getting heavy. It swelled. Then it turned purple. Before he knew it, he was spending his first of four ni...