Sports Columns
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MSL football would thriveAug 30, 2007 11:00 pm - What makes football unique compared to every other sport in the Mid-Suburban League? Of course, not every football team is eligible for the postseason. Football is also ...
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Ward breathing easier after whirlwind summer vacationAug 30, 2007 11:00 pm - The only thing that stopped Naperville North girls volleyball player Colleen Ward this summer wasn't a tall blocker at the net or an acrobatic libero in the back row. It...
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For the Cubs to be the best, they'll need more from Big ZAug 30, 2007 11:00 pm - "This is a very good pitching staff, a threat to push the Cubs not just into October, but into the World Series." This assessment comes not from some Cubs "homer," but f...
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Memorial Field will turn into Memory Lane tonightAug 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Times were much simpler in 1979 than they are now. There were only three high schools in School District U-46, and Streamwood was the new kid on the block. Football game...
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Dangerous territory for Sox' GuillenAug 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Maybe it was inevitable. Maybe there was just no other way for this to go with Ozzie Guillen, who torched his team with such fuel and fire after Wednesday night's contes...
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Big Ten Network not such a big man on cable campusAug 29, 2007 11:00 pm - As the proud graduate of a Midwestern land-grant institution, I know this is going to strike many as blasphemy, but I couldn't care less if the Big Ten Network runs on C...
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Staff ace? More like a bad jokerAug 29, 2007 11:00 pm - Someday, presumably, Carlos Zambrano is going to grow up. But that day wasn't Wednesday. In a most critical situation with a chance to bury the Brewers, you would have t...
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The seeds have been planted in DuPage CountyAug 29, 2007 11:00 pm - In the land of juicy brats, steamy sauerkraut, fanatic footballs fans and tall evergreen trees, muskie fishing is no longer the big deal it was 40 years ago. One has to ...
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Let's take a look at the White Sox positivesAug 29, 2007 11:00 pm - ARLINGTON, Texas -- What's the difference between the White Sox and a bad movie? You can stop the movie. Throw it out. Burn it. The Sox' horror flick just keeps running ...
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Better sooner than later with injuriesAug 28, 2007 11:00 pm - Listen, folks, we have to make up our minds on this. Either we want athletes to wait until they're 100 percent recovered from injury before returning, or we want them to...