Cook County Sports
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'The right amount of pressure': New Loyola Academy football coach has high expectationsAug 09, 2023 1:00 am - It was business as usual as one of Illinois' top prep football teams started the season Monday. Loyola Academy continued to hone the schemes it worked on during summer t...
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Coach: Willow Hill sports dome now up and runningAug 09, 2023 1:00 am - Sometimes it takes awhile to find your true calling in life. Longtime Northbrook resident Kent Knebelkamp knows better than most. He tried engineering, banking, home bui...
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'Pumped up': Glenbrook players take field for first day of football practiceAug 08, 2023 1:00 am - It's one of the most anticipated days on the high school sports calendar. The first day of football practice. On that day - Aug. 7 this year in Illinois - all teams are...
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Images: First day of high school football practiceAug 07, 2023 1:00 am - Images: First day of high school football practice on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. ...
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'Like Christmas morning' - Hersey, Grayslake Central excited to kick off seasonAug 07, 2023 1:00 am - Will Nolan had a great visit with his grandparents Larry and Mary Ann Hunt this past weekend. But the Hersey senior said he couldn't wait to get back home to prepare fo...
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Biles dazzles in her return from a 2-year layoff to dominate the US Classic in Hoffman EstatesAug 05, 2023 1:00 am - Simone Biles spent two years trying to distance herself from those strange days in Tokyo and all the outside noise that came along with it. She dove into therapy and slo...
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Simone Biles buzz in Hoffman Estates? Yes, but gymnastics star seems to be tuning it outAug 04, 2023 1:00 am - HOFFMAN ESTATES - Ignore the wedding band and it could have been 2019 for Simone Biles. Or 2016. Or 2014. Long before Tokyo. Long before the "twisties." Long before two ...
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2 years after the Tokyo 'twisties,' Simone Biles will compete in Hoffman EstatesAug 03, 2023 1:00 am - For years in gymnastics, the phrase "the twisties" was usually uttered in hushed tones, as if saying the slang term for an athlete's sudden loss of air awareness during ...
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2-time Olympian, Itasca native Zach Ziemek takes aim at world decathlon championshipAug 03, 2023 1:00 am - Itasca native Zach Ziemek won four state titles with Lake Park High School in 2010 and 2011, helping the Lancers win Class 3A track and field championships from 2010-13....
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Coach: The extraordinary tale of Glenview's League of Very Ordinary GentlemanAug 02, 2023 1:00 am - When a little birdie told me recently, "Jon, you have to do a story on the League of Very Ordinary Gentleman," I thought to myself, "Say what? The League of Very Ordinar...