Sports Columns
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Chicago Fire ends MLS playoff drought and sets a building block for future ambitionOct 25, 2025 8:46 pm - The Chicago Fire reached the MLS playoffs for the first time since 2017 and won a playoff game too. Could it be just the start of big things at long last for the Fire?
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Lincicome: Where there’s sports, there’s a good chance you’ll find gamblingOct 25, 2025 10:00 am - As long as gambling is legal and pro sports leagues are making money off it, it’s hard to expect that athletes won’t participate in it, writes columnist Bernie Lincicome. And sometimes athletes might cross the line the law has drawn.
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Why the Chicago Blackhawks aren’t sweating their next NHL draft slotOct 24, 2025 3:26 pm - There was no reason to believe the Chicago Blackhawks were going to be better than the 31st or 32nd team in the NHL this season. Based on their projections and every othe...
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Strong cheese: Wisconsin’s Division III league might have too much balanceOct 23, 2025 8:32 pm - Six of the eight football teams in the Wisconsin Division III conference are ranked, which might be a problem.
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The state may be ready for playoff football expansion, but not district schedulingOct 23, 2025 5:31 pm - This may sound like a rerun, but a proposal has been submitted to the IHSA to expand the football playoffs and eliminate conferences in the regular season.
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A favorite son of Aurora has a dayOct 22, 2025 7:24 pm - Kenny Battle -- former NBA player, member of the “Flyin’ Illini” and West Aurora’s third-place team in 1984 -- was honored by an Aurora proclamation.
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Sarley: Why goose hunting is fairly easy to do around hereOct 22, 2025 10:00 am - Goose hunting is relatively easy, and you don’t have to go far to do it, writes Outdoors columnist Steve Sarley.
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O’Donnell: Michael Jordan on NBC will be mild ado about image maintenanceOct 21, 2025 6:00 pm - THE NBA IS TIPPING OFF ITS 2025-26 SEASON this week. On a Chicago watch list, that clocks in somewhere between chasing unique leaf symmetry and monitoring snowblower pric...
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As Joel Quenneville and the NHL move on, don’t forget what they’re moving on fromOct 20, 2025 3:24 pm - Before we get into the hockey of it all, the relative frivolity of a Ducks-Blackhawks game in October, let’s begin with the most important thing. The actions — or more accurately, the inaction — of John McDonough, Joel Quenneville, Stan Bowman, Al MacIsaac, Jay Blunk and Kevin Cheveldayoff led to a child in Michigan getting sexually abused.
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Who had the area’s top prep football performances in Week 8?Oct 20, 2025 2:51 pm - This edition of the High Five looks at the area’s top prep football performances from Week 8.