Sports Columns
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Top prep hoops performances of the week, state title editionMar 17, 2025 6:23 pm - This edition of the High Five honors the top performances from Benet and Warren, the local teams that squared off for the Class 4A state championship on Saturday.
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Dietz: Talk to your children about sports bettingMar 16, 2025 4:09 pm - Columnist John Dietz writes about sports betting and the importance of talking to your children about the pitfalls of gambling.
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‘Edgy’ Tim: Mueller, Abrams, Solecki ready for busy springsMar 16, 2025 2:51 pm - In his latest football recruiting column, “Edgy” Tim O’Halloran writes about South Elgin’s Gavin Mueller, Montini’s Israel Abrams and Downers Grove North’s Aiden Solecki.
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False hope or high expectations? After strong spring, Cubs ready to play for realMar 15, 2025 9:50 pm - Cubs hitters were scorching hot in Arizona. Was that a great sign for the 2025 season or false hope? They’ll open the season Tuesday in Japan against the Dodgers.
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Jim O’Donnell: In search of grace — and the perfect NCAA bracketMar 15, 2025 10:00 am - THE GREATEST CERTAINTY IN AMERICAN SPORTS makes its annual popout beginning right around dusk Sunday. And that's that no one on planet Earth or its neighbors will pick a ...
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Lincicome: Baseball and Japan both are capable of surprising youMar 15, 2025 10:00 am - This just in. The national anthem will be sung on Opening Day by Yoshiki, a local lad, not to be confused with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the starting pitcher. Further highlight...
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Warren, Benet eyeing history in ChampaignMar 13, 2025 2:56 pm - Warren and Benet vie for their program’s first state boys basketball championship this weekend in Champaign.
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Silvy: The Bears are winning the offseason, but we’ve all seen this movie beforeMar 13, 2025 6:30 am - I don’t know where the Bears are going … but I know where they came from just two months ago and you cannot call it anything but progress.
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Mixed reviews: Second wave of Bears new additions is far from slam dunkMar 12, 2025 9:12 pm - The Bears roster is starting to come together, but how excited should we be over the new additions? Here’s a breakdown of the second wave of free agents.
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‘It was an incredible spectacle of an event’: Benedictine plays in first women’s college flag football gameMar 12, 2025 7:50 pm - Two firsts here -- Benedictine University in Illinois’ first college women’s flag football game, and the first world championship by a United States synchronized skating team.