Sports Columns
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Trade chatter can't take away how Bryant feels about playing for CubsJul 29, 2021 1:00 am - The Cubs' core will be known forever as the streak busters, finally satisfying generations of Cubs fans wondering if they'd ever celebrate a World Series title in their ...
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Jim O'Donnell: Simone Biles scores a victory for the enduring glory of independent thoughtJul 28, 2021 1:00 am - ROBERT FROST CALLED IT "The Road Not Taken." The Beatles sang, "Think For Yourself." The fierce French nationalist Charles de Gaulle referred to it as the unique sort of...
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Len Ziehm: Western Amateur kicks off without state amateur champ FarnamJul 27, 2021 1:00 am - This week's 119th playing of the Western Amateur may have one of its strongest fields ever at the Glen View Club, but one notable name is missing. Ethan Farnam, who repe...
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Hub Arkush: Justin Fields is Bears' future. How crucial is he today?Jul 26, 2021 1:00 am - NFL training camps open officially Tuesday and all 32 teams' goal is to win Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles next February. There are two competing camps out there right no...
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Go Figure: On the anniversary of baseball's return, a blend of 2020, 2021 statsJul 24, 2021 1:00 am - One year ago, on July 23, the 2020 Major League Baseball season began. Since then, teams have played, on average, 156 games - 60 last year and 96 this year - just shy of...
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Hub grades the Bears: A tough task at QBJul 24, 2021 1:00 am - Throughout the summer we will be running a 12-part series grading each Bears position group on a standard A-F scale, including pluses and minuses based on a bell cur...
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Zalusky: A history of the Cubs-Sox trade wars as the deadline approachesJul 24, 2021 1:00 am - With the trade deadline looming, it is once again time to speculate about possible trades between the Cubs and Sox. This year, there has been barely a trickle of such ta...
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25 years and counting: What makes Wasco Diamond girls' fastpitch softball a winning programJul 23, 2021 6:00 am - Many local youth sports programs do what they were designed to do — give kids a place to have fun and exercise, learn how to play a game properly and experience how team...
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Milwaukee's magical NBA championship something to celebrateJul 23, 2021 1:00 am - By all accounts, local and otherwise, we have just witnessed the "greatest moment in Milwaukee sports history." Lucky us. Luckier them. This is a boast best not shouted ...
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Jim O'Donnell: WaPo's Sally Jenkins working OT to spotlight treachery of the OlympicsJul 23, 2021 1:00 am - SPORTS COLUMNISTS SELDOM win Pulitzer Prizes. And a female sports columnist? Ain't never been done. But the inspired Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post could be in the...