Sports Columns
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Trolling often proves to be the fastest way to get on targetApr 02, 2008 11:00 pm - Ask many Lake Michigan salmon anglers, and they will tell you trolling is their favorite way to catch lots of suspended fish. Query a walleye tournament participant, and...
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Guillen tries to keep 2 losses in perspectiveApr 02, 2008 11:00 pm - CLEVELAND -- It's only two games. That's the same thing the Cubs and the Tigers were saying Wednesday. It's only two games. But the Cubs and the Tigers weren't the White...
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Blackhawks' MVP? It has to be KeithApr 02, 2008 11:00 pm - The Blackhawks Alumni Association got it right, selecting Duncan Keith as the team's most valuable player for 2007-08. While Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane have been di...
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Perception not necessarily a reality in Williams' eyesApr 01, 2008 11:00 pm - CLEVELAND -- The schedule will be the ultimate judge of the 2008 White Sox. But to believe their many critics, the Sox will not only fail this year, but fail so miserabl...
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Cub Nation just has to be happier than any otherApr 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Baseball's Opening Day conjured visions of last month's "60 Minutes" segment on Cubs fans. OK, so it wasn't really on Cub fans. But it could have been, especially during...
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Blanco proves to be Fire's best buy on and off the fieldApr 01, 2008 11:00 pm - To understand what Cuauhtemoc Blanco means to the Chicago Fire on the field, you only need to have seen Saturday's season opener at Real Salt Lake. In the dying moments ...
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Great move by IndianaApr 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Not everybody in the coaching fraternity loves Tom Crean. I believe it was Bob Huggins, then at Cincinnati, who nicknamed him "Tommy Naismith" several years ago because ...
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Sadly, Classic keeps getting held back by typical weatherMar 31, 2008 11:00 pm - If anyone deserves a break from Mother Nature it's John Sarna. Sarna is in charge of the eighth annual Schaumburg Flyers High School Baseball Classic. The three-day tour...
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Five years removed from Illinois, Self delivers his own Final Four teamMar 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Two months after Illinois' run to the 2005 NCAA title game, Bill Self swung through Chicago to check out the NBA predraft camp. During a break in the action at Moody Bib...
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Sox plenty positive after lossMar 31, 2008 11:00 pm - CLEVELAND -- The White Sox got precisely the start they wanted. For 26 minutes. After that, following a Jim Thome homer and Mark Buehrle's 8-pitch first inning, 2008 loo...