Sports Columns
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O'Donnell: With "Louisville Million," Churchill Inc. dissed the legacy of Dick DuchossoisAug 17, 2022 1:00 am - CHURCHILL DOWNS INC. HAS a market capitalization that touches $8 billion. That's a nice number for a corporation that specializes in little more than gaming pies in the ...
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Ziehm: After a long road, Highwood's Patrick Flavin finds himself on cusp of PGA TourAug 16, 2022 1:00 am - Very few golfers have earned membership on the PGA Tour without going through the nail-biting Qualifying School experience. Gary Hallberg, who grew up in Barrington, was...
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Bears' exhibition win over Chiefs comes with several doses of realityAug 13, 2022 1:00 am - CHICAGO - The Bears' 19-14 exhibition season opening win over the Kansas City Chiefs is being celebrated by coaches, players and fans alike, as it should, because winnin...
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Former Cubs scout Nickels reflects on his years on the North SideAug 13, 2022 1:00 am - A 1979 article in The Philadelphia Inquirer profiled a young baseball scout with the Philadelphia Phillies. At Clover Hill Park in Staunton, Virginia, Gary Nickels was s...
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O'Donnell: August 'Ins' begin with plea for Jerry Rich to ashcan LIV Golf at Rich Harvest FarmsAug 12, 2022 1:00 am - THE SLUMBERING SUMMER crawls along in the No. 1 Captive City of Sports in America. The Cubs and Blackhawks are miles from nowhere. The Bears are confused. The White Sox ...
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Lincicome: Baseball in a cornfield? Corny. But imagine life without America's national pastimeAug 12, 2022 1:00 am - The hologram of Harry Caray was spooky, but then this whole notion of baseball in a cornfield is creepy, going back to the book and the movie when Shoeless Joe Jackson w...
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Hub Arkush: The price of poker potentially just went way up for Roquan SmithAug 10, 2022 1:00 am - There are a number of good reasons that 98 to 99% of NFL players are represented by professional agents in negotiating their contracts. There's really only one good reas...
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Jim O'Donnell: Weak Cubs-Reds game could turn Fox/MLB cornfield dream into a nightmareAug 10, 2022 1:00 am - THE WONDERFUL THING ABOUT bad baseball is that it's easily recognizable as bad baseball. A Casey Stengel or a Bob Uecker might milk baselines of laughter out of it. Inst...
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Hub Arkush: Roquan Smith drops 'dirty bomb' on Bears' rookie GMAug 09, 2022 1:00 am - Roquan Smith is not one of the usual suspects when it comes to 25-year-old NFL superstars. He clearly qualifies for the superstar tag with two Second Team All-Pro nods a...
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'It was a long journey': Settler's Hill golf course back open after renovationAug 09, 2022 1:00 am - The renovation of the Settler's Hill course in Batavia wasn't easy - even for veteran Chicago area golf architect Greg Martin. His recent or current area projects includ...