Sports Columns
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Exciting events shape career with two wrestlers in big roleFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - When you hang around high school sports as long as I have, the ratings game becomes part of many conversations. Inquiring minds often want to know how I rate the athlete...
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End of successful coaching run not all bad for OefflingFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Today is a sad day for Grant's girls basketball program, but it's a good day for Tom Oeffling. Never mind that Grant's 63-52 loss to Mundelein in the title game of the C...
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Good news, girls basketball fans -- the level of play is improvingFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Now that we're in the middle of the girls basketball state tournaments (at last check we're up to four of those), it's time to give a state of the sport address for DuPa...
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These Warriors have come a long way from 0-26Feb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Westminster Christian senior basketball players Joel Benson and Tyler Beachler can smile about it now. But it was no laughing matter three years ago when the boys, along...
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Gambling on Forsberg too risky for BlackhawksFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Give Blackhawks general manager Dale Tallon credit for his continued pursuit of free-agent center Peter Forsberg, but it would seem there are much better ways to spend t...
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Female champions of fly fishingFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - The late Jim Chapralis was serious when he informed me that women are taking to fly fishing as seriously as shopping for shoes. He joked that, in his opinion, female fl...
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Nothing much gained by Congress' he said-he said exerciseFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Next up for Congress will no doubt be an investigation into whether that beagle really deserved best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. After all, no beagl...
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Say it ain't so, Debbie, please say it ain't soFeb 12, 2008 10:00 pm - Now it's personal, at least for me. At high noon today -- actually at 8:30 this morning -- Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee will duel before the House Oversight and Gover...
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College football coaches dealing with spring banFeb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - The man is trying to keep Ron Zook down. And Nick Saban. And Urban Meyer. Not to mention every other head football coach who crisscrosses the country to the point of exh...
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Big crowds equals lack of urgencyFeb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Urgency isn't an emotion Jerry Reinsdorf needs to feel right now, which explains why Bulls management has been slow to move. One day's rumor has the Bulls exploring a tr...