Sports Columns
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Sports fans to pay ransom for games held hostageNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - All right, everyone, before Comcast basic-cable subscribers and other unfortunates who missed the Packers-Cowboys game get all anxious about next week's Bears-Redskins t...
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Burno brings unique background to MarmionNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - You can't blame the Marmion basketball team for being curious about their new coach, Rashon Burno, before they even met him. With all the wonderful advances in technolog...
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Plenty for Stortz to smile aboutNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Getting the media-reluctant Bryan Stortz to return my phone calls -- or those of any other reporter for that matter -- can be tough enough sometimes. He has told me that...
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Bandits softball should be easy for Fox Valley to embraceNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Elgin city councilman Mike Powers may have said it best. "Elgin has an incredibly rich sports tradition," was Powers' comment Tuesday at a press conference formally anno...
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Building complete, Elgin ready to see profits of the workNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - After three years of remodeling, Elgin High's varsity boys basketball team can no longer be considered a fixer-upper. Like any construction project, building the Maroon...
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Can Streelman conquer the Q?Nov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Wheaton Warrenville South graduate Kevin Streelman, who finished second in the 1996 IHSA Class AA golf championships, has advanced to the final stage of the PGA Tour Nat...
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Genuine sportsmanship takes back seat to IHSA's greedNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Somewhere, Add A. Tude must have been cringing. With one hand the IHSA preaches about the values of sportsmanship in the form of its orange and blue foamed mascot that ...
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Be surprised only if there's any surprisesNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Talk to enough people in and around baseball and you'll get dozens of different notions about what's going to be in the Mitchell Report. But one fairly common opinion is...
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DVD puts Keith Reinhard back on the football sidelinesNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - The question is not asked as often as before, but it's still out there. I hear it occasionally at high school events or in conversations with people who have a history i...
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Bandits softball should be easy for Fox Valley to embraceNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Elgin city councilman Mike Powers may have said it best. "Elgin has an incredibly rich sports tradition," was Powers' comment Tuesday at a press conference formally anno...