Sports Columns
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Five (more) local college football players to watch this seasonAug 11, 2025 6:32 pm - This week’s High Five looks at five more area football players ready to contribute this season for their college teams.
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‘Edgy’ Tim: Preseason prep football player of the year candidatesAug 10, 2025 5:01 pm - With IHSA prep football practice beginning Monday, “Edgy” Tim O’Halloran writes about several preseason player of the year candidates in the Daily Herald coverage area.
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12 causes for concern: To best prepare for Bears season, set expectations to lowAug 09, 2025 7:26 pm - Ahead of Sunday’s preseason opener, Mike McGraw lists reasons to be pessimistic about the Bears this fall, just because it’s always best to be prepared.
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Lincicome: Should the Cubs faithful panic? If not now, when?Aug 09, 2025 10:00 am - The Cubs have five games left with the Brewers, but to matter, the Cubs will have to win at least four of them. And as for the rest of the schedule, according to whomever takes the trouble to figure these things out, the Brewers have a much easier task than the Cubs.
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O’Donnell: Fantasy football players are ‘in’ as NFL ’25 approachesAug 09, 2025 10:00 am - Columnist Jim O’Donnell has some thoughts on Sports news so far in August.
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Maybe it’s time for Cubs to hoist a mug and wave white flagAug 07, 2025 3:19 pm - The Cubs could snap out of their hitting slump and get healthier on the mound. But it may be futile, since their top competition is winning at a 74% rate.
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Silvy: The hits keep coming, and that can only make the Bears betterAug 07, 2025 6:00 am - Ben Johnson continues to push all the right buttons, trying to turn around a Bears team that has been misguided for years.
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Countdown to prep football: Four Saturday games to see this seasonAug 07, 2025 6:00 am - Our countdown to high school football continues this week with four Saturday games to see this season.
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Sarley: How we survived microbursts on Lake SuperiorAug 06, 2025 3:29 pm - We watched the skies to the east of us as a storm seemed to be materializing quickly. Darned weather forecasters, lying to me again. This storm was a surprise, to be sure.
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American Legion baseball makes Carol Stream a mini-vacation destinationAug 06, 2025 11:44 am - Carol Stream hosts American Legion baseball’s Great Lakes Regional at Lee Pfund Stadium through Sunday.