Sports Columns
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Bears players see the plusses in virtual offseasonJun 26, 2020 1:00 am - It's been a couple weeks since I asked Bears head coach Matt Nagy a few times what he thought the real benefits of the virtual offseason could be, and at what point he t...
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O'Donnell: Georgeff never called any rocketing doctors over ArlingtonJun 26, 2020 1:00 am - NO FIREWORKS AT ARLINGTON PARK next weekend reminds of a great holiday-themed local TV racing tale: Gerry Gallitano was a fair-to-middlin' jockey on the Chicago-Florida ...
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Rozner: White Sox, Cubs could benefit from shortened season's sprintJun 26, 2020 1:00 am - The marathon that is the championship season is the perfect baseball test. Over 162 games, no team will escape injury and poor performance. No team will avoid losing str...
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Hub: Competition is Bears' new mantra, but defense is pretty well setJun 25, 2020 1:00 am - Under the best of circumstances in the National Football League rosters and depth charts change daily. On the Bears offense right now, Allen Robinson, Cody Whitehair and...
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O'Donnell: Arlington 2020 more about melancholy than horse race meetJun 24, 2020 1:00 am - WILLIE NELSON ONCE SANG, "Love is like a dying ember." Maybe the Redheaded Stranger could summon up some fresh melancholia for the boned round of swill to be known as "A...
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While questions remain, IHSA's Anderson optimistic about return of high school sportsJun 24, 2020 1:00 am - So many questions, yet so few answers. When Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Tuesday schools could reopen for in-session learning this fall, it sparked an active conversatio...
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Rozner: Finally, the Hall of Fame calls Doug WilsonJun 24, 2020 1:00 am - When it comes to the sport of hockey and Hall of Fame injustice, there has been no worse offense than the one endured by Doug Wilson the last 24 years. But with the anno...
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Rozner: MLB sprinting toward the abyss once againJun 23, 2020 1:00 am - Major League Baseball could foul up a one-car parade. And it has done so once again. Experts often mistake MLB for baseball itself - and they are two very different thin...
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Former Libertyville coach Sanders recalls good memories in ChampaignJun 23, 2020 1:00 am - There may be no "I" in team. But years ago, high school basketball teams in Illinois used to get pretty jacked up when they would see the big "I" on the hardwood that we...
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Ziehm: Recalling Irwin's Medinah magic, how Streelman looks to get his backJun 23, 2020 1:00 am - Last week gave us a glimpse of what golfers might be missing thanks to the PGA Tour's revamped schedule. It would have marked the 30th anniversary of - at least arguably...