Sports Columns
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For openers, Illini on a streakSep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - After three weeks of unfathomable tumbles, bumbles and stumbles by multiple Big Ten teams, conference play mercifully gets under way Saturday. Illinois fans, you know wh...
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Bowl projectionsSep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - CollegeBCS.com's Jerry Palm checks the schedules, crunches the numbers and projects the college football bowl scene each week on his Web site. Here are a few of this wee...
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From where he sits, Smith must see need for a changeSep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Ben Bernanke he isn't, but maybe there is some method to Lovie Smith's mad defense of Rex Grossman. When the Fed Chair speaks today, the world markets will await with ba...
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O.J.'s turn to dark side perplexingSep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - O.J. Simpson's latest legal mess isn't funny. Late-night comedians will crack jokes about him and I'll laugh out loud with everybody else. But this isn't funny. Among th...
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Trying to put 'unbelievable' into wordsSep 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Rex Grossman had the correct response when asked to describe Devin Hester's running style. "He's unbelievable," the Bears quarterback said after Sunday's 20-1...
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Ground game in focusSep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - The Bears' running game never broke out of a walk last Sunday, but the pace is expected to pick up today against a Chiefs defense that isn't nearly the equal of the San ...
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Cubs' closer, Bears' QB could be same personSep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS -- One nerve-wracking athlete should be enough for any town. Chicago is blessed with -- or cursed by -- a couple. Except, Rex Grossman and Ryan Dempster actual...
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Hawks won't have much time to grasp Savard's changesSep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Playing more of a puck-possession game isn't the only change coach Denis Savard has in store for the Blackhawks. "I feel with the changes we made over the summer that we...
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After a year at Peoria, Sandberg thinking big againSep 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Just within the last week, Ryne Sandberg added another title to his crowded resume: grandfather. And within the next few months, he'd like to add one more: major-league ...
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ND-Michigan: Big House doesn't deserve diluted duelSep 14, 2007 11:00 pm - ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- There's a fragile feeling at Michigan Stadium, an atmosphere not suiting such a hulking sports structure. The players who run through the tunnel tod...