Sports Columns
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Don't panic, Pax: Stand patFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - John Paxson has been called a lot of things lately, most of them wrong. In reality, the Bulls' GM is -- or at least he was -- an optimist, and an inexperienced one at th...
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Dramatic game-winning shots bring both cheers and tearsFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - There's nothing like the drama of a buzzer-beater that wins a basketball game. Depending on your allegiance at the time, the buzzer-beater can send you storming the cour...
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Judson men have a common goal: A trip to nationalsFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Two years ago, Judson University men's basketball coach Jim Cook would agree, the Eagles may have had more talent than they do this season. Judson did finish that 2005-0...
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Let me spell it out for you: We're trying to get it writeFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - When you write words, you have to get them rite -- I mean, right. We have to think before we ink. And that's not always as easy as it seems. There's a Lake County high s...
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Sad but true: Coach Komaromy decides it's time to goFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - It didn't come as a surprise. In private conversation we had discussed it for, to be honest, the last couple of years. But the reality that came through the telephone li...
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Judson men have a common goal: A trip to nationalsFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Two years ago, Judson University men's basketball coach Jim Cook would agree, the Eagles may have had more talent than they do this season. Judson did finish that 2005-0...
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Now that's thinkingFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - The slogan of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's second-year breast cancer awareness program is "Think Pink." It's questionable how sunny and pink North Centra...
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Vitale -- yes, Vitale -- makes welcome comebackFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - When all the preparations for the Dick Vitale conference call were completed and it finally came up on the phone early this week, the first thing one heard was Vitale in...
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Take it from him: live bait!Feb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - He told me he's had it with fishing because he can barely walk. He's lost sight in one eye, and his overall physical strength is at a minimum. But that didn't stop me fr...
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Wallace to Suns would have made more sense than ShaqFeb 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Apparently, living in the suburbs has more in common with running an NBA team than we originally thought. Here in the land of carefully named subdivisions, if one reside...