Sports Columns
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Hitting, more than pitching, decided this seriesOct 06, 2007 11:00 pm - Q. How much did Aramis Ramirez and Alfonso Soriano hurt the Cubs in this series? A. You're not going to get into a short series without your big players making a...
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Marmion hits smooth stretch in this roller coaster seasonOct 06, 2007 11:00 pm - It's apropos that Marmion -- a football program accustomed to playing its home games on Saturday afternoons -- would host its first night game in more than 40 years this...
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Tigers know they're targeted, but who do you hit first?Oct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Every Sunday night Wheaton Warrenville South coach Ron Muhitch meets for five hours with his assistants to discuss the game gone by and the game to come. The first thin...
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Stories to tell before a marathonOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Let me introduce you to Carrie Dietiker, although you might be familiar with her already, depending on where you commute. She's quite literally the face -- or at least o...
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An ultimate indignity in the makingOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - This isn't funny anymore, though many nationwide are laughing. In nearly a century of ignominy, the Cubs are on the brink of the ultimate ignominy, and not just because ...
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Cubs exposed as being the CubsOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Only the cruel would refer to the 2007 Cubs as a fraud. But in the end, to paraphrase Dennis Green, a former head coach of another Arizona team, "They were what we shoul...
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$300 million team gets nickel-and-dimed to deathOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - It's all over but the pouting. That's sure to go on for weeks, because this one was ugly, if not totally unexpected, even though the Cubs had no goat to blame, no curse ...
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In baseball, one man's pressure another man's dream come trueOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - His team down a run in the bottom of the ninth, of the seventh game of the World Series, Mark Grace stood at home plate and stared out at Mariano Rivera. Grace knew he w...
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With red-hot Geneva, here's 1 rule that has to be brokenOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Bear with me while I break one of the Ten Commandments of sports writing. This cardinal sin of the profession ranks somewhere behind Thou Shall Double Check Facts and so...
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Saxons not happy with being closeOct 05, 2007 11:00 pm - Schaumburg's football team was not happy. A lot of teams would have been if they went on the road and stayed right with Fremd until the bitter end. But a 25-14 loss was ...