Sports Columns
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O’Donnell: Listing only some of the ways this Bears season could get weirdJul 22, 2025 2:39 pm - Jim O’Donnell: Ten things that will juice the Bears’ season.
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Five (more) fascinating IHSA recordsJul 21, 2025 7:09 pm - This week’s High Five presents five more fascinating IHSA records.
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‘Edgy’ Tim: Who are the area’s top Class of 2027 football recruits?Jul 20, 2025 12:05 pm - Prep football recruiting analyst “Edgy” Tim O’Halloran breaks down the area’s top recruits from the Class of 2027.
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O’Donnell: Gone too soon, Teinowitz leaves a colorful legacy on Chicago sports sceneJul 19, 2025 10:48 am - THEY WILL BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY for Harry Teinowitz in Wilmette Monday. The 64-year-old cross-quipper will be celebrated at a service scheduled for the Weinstein & Piser F...
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Lincicome: This term is the definition of baseball ridiculousnessJul 19, 2025 10:00 am - “Cockamamie” is not a baseball term, although sabermetrics may yet get around to it. Let’s call it CAM, and make a place for it there beside VORP and WHIP; you know, righ...
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WNBA officiating is no longer an annoyance. It’s a threat to the gameJul 18, 2025 10:00 am - The WNBA should change its logo to a bruise. Forget that little silhouette of a woman rising for a shot; just use Caitlin Clark’s arm or a leg with a purple discoloration. It’s more fitting. Or Kelsey Plum’s. Or Napheesa Collier’s.
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Countdown to prep football: Seven new coaches on the sidelineJul 17, 2025 12:00 pm - Our countdown to high school football continues this week with seven new area coaches on the sideline this season.
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Who won the 2025 Chicago sports media survey?Jul 17, 2025 6:00 am - It had been three years since we did a Chicago sports media survey and the voters were ready. More than double the number of respondents turned up at the polls than in 2022 (5,191 in total, though most questions received around 4,500 votes).
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Rough summer league for Bulls, but Essengue improvement offers hopeJul 16, 2025 7:54 pm - Through four games of Bulls summer league, they have seen what matters most -- quick improvement from first-round pick Noa Essengue.
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Lakes graduate Larson came into Fargo as No. 1 wrestler in the nationJul 16, 2025 11:17 am - Josephine Larson, who graduated from Lakes Community High School and will wrestle at Division I Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, ended the 2024-25 school year as the nation’s No. 1 ranked girls wrestler at 190 pounds.