Cook County Sports
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COVID-19 spikes in Illinois factor into ECC's decision to cancel basketball seasonDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - It is the holidays, so there are always a few Grinches in the crowd. But Kent Payne never pegged himself as one. Until Tuesday. "I feel like the Grinch who took Christma...
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Images: Our best prep sports photos of 2020Dec 22, 2020 12:00 am - See the best Daily Herald prep sports photos of 2020 from a COVID-19 shortened season. ...
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Streamwood dean's assistant, football coach dismissedDec 18, 2020 12:00 am - Streamwood High School dean's assistant and head football coach Noel Rivera has been fired for having an inappropriate relationship with a student, Elgin Area School Dis...
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Illinois trainer Brueggemann dead at 75Dec 17, 2020 12:00 am - Roger Brueggemann, the Illinois-based trainer of Arlington Million winner The Pizza Man and Breeders' Cup champion Work All Week, passed away on Tuesday after being hosp...
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Illinois struggles to recruit in-state kids. Could Jeff Monken's triple option fix that?Dec 16, 2020 12:00 am - On the first day of the football signing period Wednesday, the Daily Herald has a chart of suburban players headed to schools like Arizona, Penn State, Wisconsin, Northw...
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Voice of Elgin, Jeff Myers, honored by IBCADec 15, 2020 12:00 am - Jeff Myers made the move from Quincy to Elgin in 1989, and for the last 31 years has been entertaining and informing high school sports fans with his broadcasts on radio...
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Legacy continues: More Hall of Fame honors for the Maine West girls basketball programDec 14, 2020 12:00 am - She made the "shot heard 'round Des Plaines" ... via Champaign. Moira Kennelly Pietrowski was a big part of the start of the Maine West girls basketball dynasty. A sharp...
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Fund in Bob Frisk's name to help student journalists in three suburban districtsDec 11, 2020 4:30 am - Bob Frisk spent his life making high school sports a positive experience for athletes, doing it through his stories and columns and hundreds of relationships with athlet...
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Bartlett's Hare takes her sharp shooting to St. LouisDec 11, 2020 12:00 am - Because of the pandemic, a number of players have committed to colleges the past eight months without being able to set foot on the campus of their future home. Not Bart...
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Andy Masur well-prepared to tackle next opportunity after season with White SoxDec 09, 2020 12:00 am - Major-league baseball can be a brutal business. Most players are astute enough to know it's best to rent housing in their home cities. One bad season — actually even one...