Sports Columns
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Arkush: Your Gale Sayers questions answeredSep 28, 2020 1:00 am - You ask I answer ... Gale Sayers was before my time. Walter Payton is the greatest football player I've seen. Barry Sanders was the best pure runner I've seen. I've hear...
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Constable: Awful 2020 gives us best October in Chicago sports historySep 28, 2020 1:00 am - The year 2020 has given us a pandemic seemingly intent on killing a quarter-million Americans, record unemployment, hurricanes, wildfires, economic devastation, civil an...
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Rozner: Bears, Foles win thriller as Trubisky finally benchedSep 27, 2020 1:00 am - It's one of the best plays Mitch Trubisky has ever made in a Bears uniform. He used great vision, outstanding quickness and all his many physical attributes in chasing d...
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Bears face toughest test to date in AtlantaSep 26, 2020 1:00 am - The Bears are one of 11 undefeated teams in the NFL and the Atlanta Falcons are one of 10 winless teams, yet the Falcons are 3-point favorites over the Bears in Atlanta ...
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Baseball Way Back: A black day for the White SoxSep 26, 2020 1:00 am - If you picked up a newspaper 100 years ago, Monday, Sept. 27, 1920, and turned to the sports page, you would have read that the White Sox were a half-game within first-p...
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Hard-working Hardy believes he can be top-50 material in 2 yearsSep 25, 2020 1:00 am - If you think about some of the golfers ranked 20 to 50 in the world, plenty of familiar names come to mind. There's Tiger Woods at 22. Justin Rose at 23. Jason Day ranks...
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Noted Naperville Central star Parker adds defensive award to resumeSep 25, 2020 1:00 am - It was good to see Candace Parker let her hair down. Although, technically, her hair was already looking quite natural and "let down" in a wavy, poofy, shoulder-length A...
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Donovan thinks he can improve Bulls' player developmentSep 24, 2020 3:00 pm - As they watch the NBA playoffs from a safe distance, one thing that's been painfully obvious for the Bulls is how far behind they are compared to the best teams in the l...
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Cubs' Hendricks not concerned about extra time offSep 24, 2020 1:00 am - Brutal beginning. Fabulous finish. That pretty much sums up Kyle Hendricks' final start of the regular season in which the crafty right-hander allowed back-to-back home ...
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Rozner: Bears' Sayers remembered as the elite of the eliteSep 23, 2020 1:00 am - Time does few a favor. It is our greatest enemy, the clock relentless, stealing precious moments and memories, undefeated as it removes from us that which we hold dear. ...