Sports Columns
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A handful of prep sports hopes for the new yearJan 20, 2025 3:18 pm - This week’s High Five offers five hopes from the area’s prep sports scene in 2025.
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Rebuilds take time, so Blackhawks fans will need still more patienceJan 19, 2025 11:10 am - Here’s the thing, though: NHL rebuilds are often long, drawn-out dramas — especially when a team is stripped down to the studs the way the Hawks were.
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Jim O’Donnell: Attainable answer to Bears’ scramble is Kliff Kingsbury 2.0Jan 19, 2025 6:00 am - A FLAWED INTERVIEWING PROCESS by a flawed NFL franchise continues to play out in Lake Forest as the Bears' biff-Zoom-biff search for a new head coach plods on. Eventually...
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Plenty of non-basketball events to see this monthJan 16, 2025 6:12 pm - For prep sports fans not interested in basketball, there are plenty of girls gymnastics, boys swimming, and boys and girls wrestling events to see this month.
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Silvy: Maybe the Bears shouldn’t make a panic hire for a changeJan 16, 2025 6:00 am - The Bears got burned. Everyone knew it was time to move on, but the team doubled down, believing he could turn it around. And finally, after it was obvious with all of th...
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A few don’t-miss speakers at the Chicagoland Fishing Expo in Schaumburg Jan. 23-26Jan 15, 2025 10:45 pm - Speakers you don’t want to miss at the Chicagoland Fishing Expo, which is at the Schaumburg Convention Center Jan. 23-26.
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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.