Sports Columns
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Lackluster Bulls feeling Wallace's lack of productionDec 23, 2007 10:00 pm - The Bulls' postgame routine has become drearily familiar. Inside the locker room, the key players are asked if they can identify any reasons why the team would show so l...
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Bears show true meaning of a rivalryDec 23, 2007 10:00 pm - Somehow the Bears-Packers rivalry endures. There can be no other conclusion after Sunday's 35-7 Bears victory in Soldier Field. "Beating the Green Bay Packers can cure a...
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Time to tear down WrigleyDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - Here's a solution to the latest Wrigley Field crisis: Save the name, dump the dump. Yes, I'm playing demolition derby again because the crusty, creaky old joint doesn't ...
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It's not a very merry Christmas this year for CL South's HardieDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - This was not on Kaitlin Hardie's Christmas list. Hardie, Crystal Lake South's junior starting point guard in girls basketball and one of the area's top softball players,...
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When hardship hit, Thompson broke throughDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - This was meant to be a "tough break" story, a tale from the life-isn't-always-fair file. But Tyler Thompson changed the plot -- for the better -- by making a quicker tha...
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For Coble, picking mom over basketball was easy decisionDec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - No one would have blamed Kevin Coble if he had stayed and played. It would have seemed normal, predictable even, in an age in which athletes routinely put their sport a...
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'Field Trip Day' quite a trip at NUDec 21, 2007 10:00 pm - When do nearly 4,000 screeching grade schoolers -- all screeching at the same time, mind you -- sound like music to the ears? When they're lending their support to a tea...
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Gotta have heart: Gifts to soothe the disillusioned baseball fanDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - It strikes me that disillusioned baseball fans can use a little extra TLC this Christmas, so have I got a gift idea for them. It got scant attention when it was released...
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Charger Classic truly is Memory LaneDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - Twenty-five years. The Charger Classic, which begins Wednesday at Dundee-Crown, is one of those things the holidays just would not be complete without. The Charger Class...
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Here's an idea: Let's be more like L.T.Dec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - Two weeks ago, after arriving home late from work, I decided to watch the latest episode of "The Amazing Race." While forwarding the tape, I noticed "60 Minutes" had don...