Sports Columns
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Illini must wait for wild BCS picture to unfoldNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - Though it will have been 15 days since its last game, Illinois' battle for a Bowl Championship Series berth could go down to the season's final snap. Sometime around 2 a...
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Now, Bears at least dead men walkingNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - They say a mind is a terrible thing to waste, but it would have been worse to waste Devin Hester's performance Sunday. "He's putting us in position to take the game," wi...
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Even IHSA, Lake Zurich can't spoil DVC's dayNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- So it wasn't the championship bonanza the DuPage Valley Conference expected. It was still pretty cool. Three DVC football teams enjoyed something they'd nev...
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Keep this Bulls movie out of the theatersNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - The Bulls are officially a one-star movie now. When a team loses a game like they lost Saturday at New York, bad reviews are inevitable. The Knicks came in with a 2-9 re...
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Brick by brick, Stortz builds a championNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- Leave it to a coach to turn an exercise in team-building into, well, an exercise. When the football players at Lake Zurich were handed bricks this summer an...
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Veteran major-league pitcher Kennedy dies suddenly at 28Nov 23, 2007 10:00 pm - TAMPA, Fla. -- Joe Kennedy, a journeyman left-hander who pitched for three major-league teams last season, died at his in-laws' home Friday. He was 28. After going to be...
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Weekley-Slocum pair leads by 1Nov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - SHENZHEN, China -- Maybe the United States doesn't need Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson to win the World Cup of Golf. Two players out of the same high school in the Flori...
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Notre Dame can't afford more information overloadNov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - Early in the morning on Dec. 17, Charlie Weis will step off the recruiting trail and begin dissecting where he went wrong this season. The Notre Dame coach undoubtedly ...
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Wolves owner Levin is Rocky's, Blackhawks' biggest fanNov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - The man who has single-handedly kept hockey alive in Chicago the last decade couldn't be happier today. You'd think it would be just the opposite, that Wolves owner Don ...
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Derrick flies to top spotNov 22, 2007 10:00 pm - Neuqua Valley senior Chris Derrick, the reigning Class 3A boys cross country champ, has moved up to No. 1 on the national Foot Locker Favorites list in advance of the Fo...