Sports Columns
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Gale Sayers one of the greatest, on and off the fieldSep 23, 2020 1:00 am - Growing up in Chicago in the 1960s, the guys who cemented my love affair with the National Football League beyond my dad were George Halas, Vince Lombardi, Jim Brown, Di...
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Jim O'Donnell: Nothing but first class for Gale SayersSep 23, 2020 1:00 am - THE PASSING OF GALE SAYERS recalled a long ago summer Sunday morning at O'Hare. The teenaged United Airlines seasonal hireling - later appropriately deemed "The worst ga...
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Rozner: Professional Donovan adds to Chicago Bulls' credibilitySep 22, 2020 1:00 am - You look for signs. Both big and small, you look for signs of professionalism from an organization, especially one like the Bulls that has been wandering in the desert f...
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Feder: Dan McNeil apologizes for 'harsh' tweet - and goes fishingSep 22, 2020 1:00 am - One week after his career crashed and burned over what his bosses called a "degrading and humiliating" tweet, Dan McNeil apologized to the ESPN reporter whose attire he ...
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Rozner: U.S. Open champ DeChambeau will continue on his own pathSep 22, 2020 1:00 am - The bomb-and-gouge philosophy is not new to the PGA Tour. It's been part of the program for years, the likes of Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Cam Champ an...
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Get ready for exciting fall of golf — both in Chicago and nationallySep 22, 2020 1:00 am - At least there's one nice thing that came out of this dreaded pandemic. Thanks to all the postponements from March through June, it necessitated an extension of the tour...
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Benching Schwarber didn't help Cubs' hitting slumpSep 21, 2020 9:00 am - Cubs manager David Ross wouldn't disclose the reason he pulled Kyle Schwarber from Sunday's loss to the Twins after the second inning. But it's reasonable to assume it h...
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Warren coach Dawson touched many livesSep 21, 2020 1:00 am - It seems like a no-brainer now. Bryan Holland and Severio Hernandez are collegiate runners, and are thriving. But before Holland and Hernandez met Bill Dawson, they neve...
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Rozner: Wanting fans at games doesn't make Bears evilSep 21, 2020 1:00 am - It was once said by a Blackhawks employee that I ought to be careful crossing West Madison Street. If given a choice, I was told, Bill Wirtz would sooner run me over wit...
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Baseball Way Back: Chicago, baseball and all that jazzSep 19, 2020 1:00 am - A voice rises from the surface noise of an old record. "Play ball! Here comes the pitch." Following the sound effect of a bat hitting a ball, you hear a studio crowd che...