Sports Columns
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Silvy: Maybe the Bears shouldn’t make a panic hire for a changeJan 16, 2025 6:00 am - The Bears got burned. Everyone knew it was time to move on, but the team doubled down, believing he could turn it around. And finally, after it was obvious with all of th...
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A few don’t-miss speakers at the Chicagoland Fishing Expo in Schaumburg Jan. 23-26Jan 15, 2025 10:45 pm - Speakers you don’t want to miss at the Chicagoland Fishing Expo, which is at the Schaumburg Convention Center Jan. 23-26.
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Sounding off: Vucevic vents after Bulls drop third straight home gameJan 15, 2025 10:29 pm - The Bulls dropped their third straight home game, losing to the shorthanded Atlanta Hawks 110-94 on Wednesday at the United Center. In the locker room, one player spoke up to address the team’s problems.
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Gould helped set a gold standard for football and other programs at St. Charles NorthJan 15, 2025 4:52 pm - Mark Gould, St. Charles North’s first varsity football coach, will be among those inducted in the first class of the school’s athletics hall of fame on Saturday.
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O’Donnell: The more the warier with Bears’ coaching searchJan 14, 2025 5:11 pm - Jim O’Donnell believes the Bears’ coaching search has become a case of the more the warier.
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College Achievers: Former Hilltoppers creating chemistry at LewisJan 13, 2025 6:00 am - College Achievers: Former Glenbard West boys basketball teammates continue to get it done at Lewis University.
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Dietz: Poles can’t be trusted to make big decisions for BearsJan 13, 2025 6:00 am - John Dietz says Bears general manager Ryan Poles has made too many mistakes, including the drafting of Caleb Williams, to be trusted with big decisions.
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Bears Film Study: This season was a tough watch, but here are best players of 2024Jan 11, 2025 3:14 pm - With a disappointing season complete, Bears Film Study pores through the evidence and ranks the team’s 25 best players of 2024.
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Beware the latest TV gimmick: indoor golfJan 11, 2025 10:00 am - I have not seen everything, but I have seen indoor golf and I shrug. Indoor golf is usually found on cruise ships and in sports bars. Now it is a TV gimmick, like poker a...
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Jim O’Donnell: Freeman, Irish need a chunk o’ Northern Illinois at the CFP title gameJan 11, 2025 10:00 am - EVERYTHING'S COMING UP IRISH for Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame in the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff. Still, that shamrock quake leaves no one backing off fro...