Sports Columns
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Sarley: My dream destination is a conventionJul 16, 2025 10:55 am - If I had to pick just one place I’d like to visit before my days are done, it would be making a return visit to the annual ICAST Convention. What? This guy must be out of his mind. Sarley’s gone goofy. Alert the authorities.
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Ziehm: It’s golf tournament time in the Chicago area, starting with Illinois State AmateurJul 15, 2025 1:20 pm - The biggest tournaments of the Chicago golf season are coming fast and furious now, starting with the 94th Illinois State Amateur, which concludes its three-day run at St...
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O’Donnell: Hollow ’05 White Sox reunion merely an elegy for the agedJul 15, 2025 11:01 am - WAS IT RICK NELSON OR FORMER WHITE SOX GM KENNY WILLIAMS who sang, “If memories are all I have, I'd rather drive a truck?” The answer is “A.” But the sentiment was totall...
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Five college football players from the suburbs to watch this seasonJul 14, 2025 5:41 pm - This week’s High Five looks at five area football players ready to contribute this season for their college teams.
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O’Donnell: Bob Costas advocating change to reenergize MLB All-Star GameJul 12, 2025 9:28 am - MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL'S ALL-STAR GAME is withering between the lines. If the Cubs land the fading exhibition for 2027, that status will be amended to merely withering bet...
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Lincicome: Looking for the point to all-star gamesJul 12, 2025 9:00 am - My favorite all-star memory is of a game in Seattle years back. Not the game itself exactly but the workout day before when players loafed and visited and prided themselv...
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The bronze aged: Buehrle parks tractor, leaves farm and kicks off 2005 reunion weekend for SoxJul 11, 2025 10:06 pm - Reunion weekend for the 2005 World Series champion White Sox began Friday with unveiling of a Mark Buehrle statue in the right field concourse.
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Countdown to prep football: Eight area non-quarterbacks to see this seasonJul 10, 2025 1:52 pm - Our countdown to high school football continues this week with eight area non-quarterbacks to see play this season.
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Her school dropped her tennis program, but Haber happy with how it worked out in the endJul 09, 2025 4:45 pm - Rolling Meadows graduate Hanna Haber has weathered the loss of her college tennis program and looks positively toward a fresh start at Colorado State.
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Sarley: Advice for keeping your live bait alive during a hot Illinois summerJul 09, 2025 10:34 am - I’ve talked to you all before about the effectiveness of using live bait when you are fishing. Please realize that the key word in this subject is “live.” Keeping your ba...