Sports Columns
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ESPN casts a lovely spell with 'Black Magic' documentaryMar 13, 2008 11:00 pm - Between Black History Month and the start of the NCAA Tournament, ESPN presents a new miniseries called "Black Magic," and it's all the more powerful for not trying to e...
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Polly Hirt's athletic career follows familiar, successful arcMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - About the time she started realizing she wasn't going to soar any higher, and that she was scraping the ceiling of her gymnastics potential, Polly Hirt began to plummet....
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Tallon faces tough off-season decisionsMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Surely everyone has noticed the Blackhawks making a strong push for a playoff spot without Nikolai Khabibulin and Martin Havlat, their two highest-paid players. What doe...
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Elgin's Rohlman finally gets to see 'his' school in a superMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - It took 28 years, but Art Rohlman was finally able to watch "his" school play in a supersectional. Rohlman, the longtime DeKalb High School athletic director who has bee...
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The rise and fall of no hassle jiggingMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - I presume many anglers are ready for spring fishing action. The experts tell us the magic water temperature for walleyes to do their spring spawning dance is between 42 ...
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Hawks still have job to do, on and off iceMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - If you're not drinking Blackhawks Kool-Aid, spending a game night at the UC is like going out of your way to tell an Iowan you think ethanol's overrated. But when a team...
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In East, just showing up gets it doneMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The race for the NBA East's final playoff berth is like a demolition derby. Hard to believe, but the Bulls remain in contention to be that car in the junkyard tilting pr...
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Stand-up coaching job by SitterMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - DEKALB -- OK, so it ended here Tuesday night for the Elgin Maroons. Or maybe it's just beginning. Four months ago, everyone knew the talent the Elgin High boys basketbal...
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Four horsemen enjoy rideMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - DEKALB -- In recent seasons they were the four faces on Elgin basketball's Mt. Rushmore. Opponents could carve it in stone when they took the floor against the Maroons ...
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Levin being patient, but he's still in mix to buy CubsMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - It's been almost two years since word started making the rounds that the Cubs would be up for auction. And a year since they actually went on the block. But still no "bo...