Sports Columns
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A diamond is this girl's best friendAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - Loud, screeching chants of "You go, girl!" were commonplace last spring at freshman boys baseball games at Warren High School in Gurnee. That's right. "You go, girl" at ...
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For college football fans, today's a much better dayAug 31, 2007 11:00 pm - The curtain raised on the college football season Thursday night, but there wasn't much behind it. Opening night was unquestionably a dud. If you missed it, no worries...
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'Hurricane Season' offers fascinating look at team's spiritAug 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Reading books is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. I read books for the purest of reasons -- entertainment. For me, a good novel beats anything on...
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Toews, Hawks will benefit from addition of Lang, PerreaultAug 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Blackhawks general manager Dale Tallon has a plan, he's sticking to it, and it has everything to do with putting the team's future into the hands of its prospects. The H...
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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...