Grandwood Park Sports
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Polly Hirt's athletic career follows familiar, successful arcMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - About the time she started realizing she wasn't going to soar any higher, and that she was scraping the ceiling of her gymnastics potential, Polly Hirt began to plummet....
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Tomorrow comes today for high school athletesMar 08, 2008 10:00 pm - With all its euphoria and net-cutting and trophy-hoisting, March Madness is a magical time of year. If you've been to a fan-packed high school gym during the state baske...
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Join me in annual hair-razing cancer benefitMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Ashley Conley spent too much of her third year on Earth vomiting. Enduring blood transfusions that lasted for hours. Riding in the family van that wore two deep grooves...
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February frenzy?Feb 28, 2008 10:00 pm - Thanks to it being leap year, we get an extra day of February today. Hooray. Don't you just want to give it a leap-year leap? Makes you want to shovel some more snow, ju...
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Illinois Open moves to Hawthorn WoodsFeb 24, 2008 10:00 pm - The 59th Illinois Open Championship is moving up on the calendar - from August to July - and moving up from Glenview to Hawthorn Woods as well. The Illinois PGA announ...
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The show is finally over ... and Boothe was lights-outFeb 21, 2008 10:00 pm - Sarah Boothe flicked up the final shot of her wonderful high school career, the final seconds of the game ticked off, and a nanosecond after the final buzzer sounded Mun...
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All right: Time for the all- teamsFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - After watching Stevenson's Dylan Richter put together an all-state-like performance against Mundelein last Friday night (34 points, 22 rebounds), and with the regular se...
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End of successful coaching run not all bad for OefflingFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - Today is a sad day for Grant's girls basketball program, but it's a good day for Tom Oeffling. Never mind that Grant's 63-52 loss to Mundelein in the title game of the C...
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Let me spell it out for you: We're trying to get it writeFeb 07, 2008 10:00 pm - When you write words, you have to get them rite -- I mean, right. We have to think before we ink. And that's not always as easy as it seems. There's a Lake County high s...
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More power to Bauer as she battles injuryJan 31, 2008 10:00 pm - Her right shoulder sports thin bandages thanks to surgery last week and will be sling-ridden for the next month. Which makes Lydia Bauer not much use to her high school ...