Sports Columns
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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...
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Quite a bowl season for the area’s college football playersJan 10, 2025 5:29 am - From the Salute to Veterans Bowl to the College Football Playoff, it’s been quite a bowl season for our local football players.
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Silvy: McCaskey trotting out his orange tie for a Halas Hall news conference is a sad Bears traditionJan 09, 2025 6:00 am - I want to believe this is the dawn of a new day for our Bears. I want to sell you this is the start of something great. I can’t. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times or more, and you’re the Chicago Bears.