Sports Columns
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Countdown to prep football: Seven new coaches on the sidelineJul 17, 2025 12:00 pm - Our countdown to high school football continues this week with seven new area coaches on the sideline this season.
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Who won the 2025 Chicago sports media survey?Jul 17, 2025 6:00 am - It had been three years since we did a Chicago sports media survey and the voters were ready. More than double the number of respondents turned up at the polls than in 2022 (5,191 in total, though most questions received around 4,500 votes).
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Rough summer league for Bulls, but Essengue improvement offers hopeJul 16, 2025 7:54 pm - Through four games of Bulls summer league, they have seen what matters most -- quick improvement from first-round pick Noa Essengue.
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Lakes graduate Larson came into Fargo as No. 1 wrestler in the nationJul 16, 2025 11:17 am - Josephine Larson, who graduated from Lakes Community High School and will wrestle at Division I Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, ended the 2024-25 school year as the nation’s No. 1 ranked girls wrestler at 190 pounds.
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Sarley: My dream destination is a conventionJul 16, 2025 10:55 am - If I had to pick just one place I’d like to visit before my days are done, it would be making a return visit to the annual ICAST Convention. What? This guy must be out of his mind. Sarley’s gone goofy. Alert the authorities.
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Ziehm: It’s golf tournament time in the Chicago area, starting with Illinois State AmateurJul 15, 2025 1:20 pm - The biggest tournaments of the Chicago golf season are coming fast and furious now, starting with the 94th Illinois State Amateur, which concludes its three-day run at St...
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O’Donnell: Hollow ’05 White Sox reunion merely an elegy for the agedJul 15, 2025 11:01 am - WAS IT RICK NELSON OR FORMER WHITE SOX GM KENNY WILLIAMS who sang, “If memories are all I have, I'd rather drive a truck?” The answer is “A.” But the sentiment was totall...
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Five college football players from the suburbs to watch this seasonJul 14, 2025 5:41 pm - This week’s High Five looks at five area football players ready to contribute this season for their college teams.
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O’Donnell: Bob Costas advocating change to reenergize MLB All-Star GameJul 12, 2025 9:28 am - MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL'S ALL-STAR GAME is withering between the lines. If the Cubs land the fading exhibition for 2027, that status will be amended to merely withering bet...
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Lincicome: Looking for the point to all-star gamesJul 12, 2025 9:00 am - My favorite all-star memory is of a game in Seattle years back. Not the game itself exactly but the workout day before when players loafed and visited and prided themselv...