Sports Columns
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Sarley: Leave elitism out of fishing and huntingOct 01, 2025 9:00 am - There is a tad bit of elitism that creeps into the worlds of hunting and fishing on occasion. There’s no place for it, outdoors columnist Steve Sarley writes.
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O’Donnell: Sitting on a pillow, Cubs-Padres will be over in a flashSep 30, 2025 9:00 pm - Cubs and Padres fans aren’t getting ABC’s best in the broadcast booth this week, writes columnist Jim O’Donnell.
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Who had the area’s top prep football performances in Week 5?Sep 29, 2025 5:28 pm - This edition of the High Five looks at the area’s top prep football performances in Week 5.
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‘Edgy’ Tim O’Halloran: Getting a live look at some great prep football playersSep 28, 2025 4:44 pm - Recruiting analyst “Edgy” Tim O’Halloran writes about the many high-level prep football players from the area he watched in person last weekend.
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O’Donnell: All Bears aside, Cubs set to act out season atop Chicago sports marqueeSep 27, 2025 10:00 am - Craig Counsell and the Cubs have as few as two — maybe three — performances on their biggest stage yet to complete 2025 drama.
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Lincicome: The Cubs will celebrate again, and this season tooSep 27, 2025 10:00 am - Having rehearsed their celebration already, the Cubs have the photos and the stained laundry to prove that whatever happens next, the season wasn’t half bad, although it was only half good when you look at where the Cubs were once and where they are now. As Rick may have told Ilsa, they will always have Pittsburgh.
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Schwarz: Taking an opportunity to praise Joe Mansueto and the Chicago FireSep 26, 2025 11:49 am - After more than a decade of failures, the Chicago Fire is doing something deserving of praise, and a lot of it, writes sports editor Orrin Schwarz.
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A great unknown: Bears are intriguing, scary after 3 weeksSep 26, 2025 11:36 am - Now, in 2025, anything is possible as the 1-2 Bears prepare for a game with the Raiders in Las Vegas with a bye week on the horizon. Not everything, but anything.
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Benedictine ends Aurora’s long conference win streakSep 25, 2025 6:09 pm - Benedictine scored 3 fourth-quarter touchdowns and survived a long lightning delay to end Aurora’s 46-game conference win streak last Saturday.
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Is it ever reasonable to criticize high school athletes?Sep 25, 2025 5:40 pm - With the landscape of high school athletics changing -- and the finances -- has it become reasonable to criticize the athletes earning money?