Sports Columns
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Night of Hoops a trifecta of blockbustersJan 26, 2008 10:00 pm - The 15th Annual Batavia Night of Hoops might need a new name. It's gone from good to great to better in the last decade and a half. But next Saturday's lineup of marquee...
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Church can't deny Majerus his right to speak out on issuesJan 25, 2008 10:00 pm - Rick Majerus must have missed it when he signed his contract at Saint Louis. Maybe the big guy should invest in a pair of glasses. How could a veteran college basketball...
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LZ grad Solverson's career took painful detourJan 25, 2008 10:00 pm - Six years, two surgeries, two majors and 27 teammates ago, Johanna Solverson enrolled at the University of Iowa. Talk about maxing out your college experience. It's been...
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Optimism is reality at SoxFestJan 25, 2008 10:00 pm - If the reality ever matched the hype, White Sox GM Kenny Williams would have stopped attending SoxFest years ago for fear of an all-out verbal assault. But, as usual, th...
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Time to get ready for more class expansion in IHSA sportsJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - The big news out of the Illinois High School Association's office last week was the decision to move forward with a drug testing program for high school athletes. What g...
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Chelios a competitor to the endJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - When Chris Chelios was playing dominant defense for the Blackhawks in the early 1990s, one of his assistant coaches -- who shall stay unnamed to protect his foolishness ...
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Sinking teams fail to weigh down sports talk radioJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - The Bears rallied at the end of the season in December, but that's nothing compared to the charge WMVP 1000-AM put on. The station rose from a 1.3 percent share of the o...
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Palatine reaches out to BrooksJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - Few signs indicated Feb. 6 would be one of the biggest days in the young life of Monroe Brooks. Brooks was hardly an athletic prodigy. He made a last-minute decision to ...
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Glogovsky makes the most of her big basketball decisionJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - She could easily and literally be a big part of it right now. Erin Glogovsky could be teaming with fellow 6-footers and old friends Sarah Boothe and Lory Shaw to give Wa...
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Flying in to LaXJan 24, 2008 10:00 pm - Lacrosse is on the Illinois High School Association's list of "emerging sports." Emerge they did, some 150 prep lacrosse players from the suburbs and neighboring states,...