Sports Columns
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Here are three big questions the Bears must try to answerAug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - The Bears are just 20 days away from the start of what appears to be a much more challenging schedule than they faced last season, when they raced to a 7-0 start while f...
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What's with that extra $1.5 million?Aug 19, 2007 11:00 pm - At 7:10 p.m. Sunday, Carlos Zambrano threw his first pitch as a $91.5 million man. That's the amount of money the Cubs guaranteed Big "Bucks" Z in the contract he agreed...
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All in good scrum for Fremd graduateAug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Dan Mangan had a feeling his younger brother Mike might like a good scrum. Mike Mangan was looking for a way to sustain the competitive drive he had as a football and ba...
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Big deal for Big Z means a big loadAug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Carlos Zambrano didn't just pick up a paycheck Friday morning. He picked up an entire pitching staff and put it on his back. It's now his to carry for the next five year...
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Price is right for Sky's superstar rookieAug 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Moving to the big city from rural Mississippi can take some getting used to. And a lot of tissue. Chicago Sky rookie guard Armintie Price could barely keep enough of it ...
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Slots or not, Arlington has room to growAug 16, 2007 11:00 pm - Nearly two decades after its spectacular opening, it remains the marble-plated sleeping giant of the industry. And that industry has never needed Arlington Park as much ...
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Cuban-Cubs talk nothing more than a smoke screenAug 15, 2007 11:00 pm - Hardly a day goes by that we don't hear from someone who'd like to see Mark Cuban buy the Cubs. Well, let me make this as simple as I can for you: Cuban isn't to get the...
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Rizzuto's spirit carries on in Cubs' infieldAug 14, 2007 11:00 pm - Ryan Theriot and Mike Fontenot, meet Phil Rizzuto. Not literally, of course. Not anymore. Not after Rizzuto died early Tuesday at 89. But the former Yankees shortstop's ...
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The best of his era --perhaps of all timeAug 09, 2007 11:00 pm - The answer is simple. The question, not so much. Assuming most of the best players of this era did something untoward, who are the best -- who is the best -- of the last...
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Hawks part with Vrbata for veteran center AdamsAug 09, 2007 11:00 pm - Statistics can be misleading. Radim Vrbata was the Blackhawks' second-leading scorer last season with 41 points, but with only 14 goals and because of his reluctance to ...