Sports Columns
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Baribeau gives indoor football a woman's touchFeb 29, 2008 10:00 pm - What does a 5-foot-nothin', 100-pound-nothin' woman know about football? Rachel Baribeau says she knows a lot. But the sports-talk-radio host used to be able to prove it...
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Sale of park, not its name, the real issueFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Regular visitors to the Erin Burnett Channel, also known as CNBC, know his appearance this week is hardly the first time Sam Zell has discussed selling naming rights at ...
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Smith, Yohn set the bar for returning players to strive forFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - The end of another girls basketball season is upon us. The Fox Valley area may not have sent a team to the IHSA state final tournament this season, but we had our share ...
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Long career does not go unnoticedFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - When Joe Fedinec started Benet's cross country program there was much more country to cross. Fedinec's athletes went from running farm roads in his late 1950s coaching y...
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Prez? Sipes seems the typeFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - It's a presidential election year and, like many of us, Grayslake Central boys basketball coach Tim Bowen is thinking politics more than usual. In fact, he already knows...
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Bill James retrieves his wand from baseball's storage binsFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Here's an early entrant for baseball's Comeback of the Year: none other than stats guru Bill James. James, of course, changed the game with his annual "Abstracts" in th...
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February frenzy?Feb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Thanks to it being leap year, we get an extra day of February today. Hooray. Don't you just want to give it a leap-year leap? Makes you want to shovel some more snow, ju...
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Montini seniors Leeberg, Prince deserve to savor super winFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Notes, quotes and observations from the girls basketball road to state… It was quite a scene to see Montini senior Cootie Leeberg hold the ball in her hands as the final...
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Overcoming nervousness is part of the sports experienceFeb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Tiger Woods said in a recent interview he's always nervous when he's playing golf. Tiger Woods? Nervous? Why? The guys he plays against should be nervous. Tiger The Term...
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Phillips' departure rough for NIUFeb 27, 2008 10:00 pm - As if Northern Illinois University president John Peters didn't have enough on his plate, now he must find an athletic director. On the same day Peters announced the dec...