Sports Columns
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Jim O'Donnell: Bellinger, Hoyer and Notre Dame to the Big Ten - the Ins and Outs of AugustAug 27, 2023 5:30 am - COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S ALREADY IN THE AIR and the NFL less than two weeks away: Isn't that why the Gregorian calendar has a September? Hot stuffs, cool punts, even if it's o...
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Lincicome: Sell the White Sox? How about stay and get betterAug 27, 2023 5:30 am - OK, so the White Sox have turned the page. Chances are the next page will be just as blank as the last page. The Sox have more blank pages than Wally's diary. Still, so...
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State and national athletic governing bodies agree: Hazing not tolerated on any level, especially in high schoolAug 27, 2023 1:00 am - When Northwestern University fired Pat Fitzgerald as its head football coach amid myriad allegations of hazing incidents within the program, the university served notice...
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Jim O'Donnell: Reinsdorf, Theo Epstein and Richard III – the South Side meteor shower is a good oneAug 23, 2023 1:00 am - WHEN THE ONE GREAT SCORER comes to mark against Jerry Reinsdorf's name, the spirit of the Chicago sports mogul should have one great regret. That will be that newspapers...
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'Hazing defeats the purpose of the team': What some schools are doing to ensure it doesn't happenAug 22, 2023 1:00 am - First of two parts Dragan Teonic has been a football coach at both the college and high school level during his 20-plus years on the gridiron. He's also been educated by...
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Ziehm: Hovland's 61 is just the latest memorable BMW moment in the Chicago areaAug 21, 2023 1:00 am - Sunday's rousing finish to the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields was a lot like the wrapup to the tourney's previous Chicago-area staging when fans were allowed through...
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Jim O'Donnell: Arlington's "Against All Odds" statue is of no help to Saratoga's sagging '23 meetAug 20, 2023 5:30 am - SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The town remains stately. It's no wonder George Washington liked it so much. Zac Brown, a new sort of revolutionary, played the Performing Arts ...
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Lincicome: U.S. women, Messi madness have revived U.S. interest in soccerAug 19, 2023 5:30 am - Without asking, soccer has once again inserted itself onto what was once known as America's sports pages, a generational annoyance that leaves no lasting scars, not the ...
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Baseball Way Back: Cubs vs. Sox always mattered even when the games didn'tAug 19, 2023 1:00 am - If anybody still doubted the civic significance of the crosstown series, that was dispelled by the Cubs' Christopher Morel's shirtless celebration following his walkoff ...
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Ziehm: BMW Championship returns to Olympia Fields without a suburban hopefulAug 14, 2023 1:00 am - The BMW Championship returns to Olympia Fields this week, but without a local hopeful. University of Illinois alums Nick Hardy and Thomas Detry didn't survive the first ...