Other Sports
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Baseball Way Back: Trachsel looks back on historic moments with the CubsAug 05, 2023 1:00 am - The 1998 season featured a number of memorable moments not only for the Cubs, but for the game of baseball itself. And Steve Trachsel was a big part of it. Trachsel pit...
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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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Olympic gymnastics champ Suni Lee feels anxiety of long comeback, starting in Hoffman Estates
Aug 04, 2023 1:00 am - HOFFMAN ESTATES - The anxiety hit Sunisa Lee unexpectedly. The 2021 Olympic gymnastics champion was preparing for her return to elite gymnastics at Saturday's U.S. Class...
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Bears great Steve McMichael in ICU with sepsis and pneumonia
Aug 04, 2023 1:00 am - Steve McMichael, a star defensive tackle on the Chicago Bears' famed 1985 Super Bowl championship team who has ALS, was in intensive care because of sepsis and pneumonia...
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Simone Biles buzz in Hoffman Estates? Yes, but gymnastics star seems to be tuning it out
Aug 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-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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Deerfield's Vince India wins Illinois OpenAug 02, 2023 1:00 am - The 74th Illinois Open required a three-hole playoff, but it was worth it to Vince India. India, who won the tournament in 2018, defeated University of Illinois alum Dyl...
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A Latino player says his Northwestern teammates hazed him by shaving 'Cinco de Mayo' onto his headAug 02, 2023 1:00 am - Ramon Diaz says he was just 17 years old when Northwestern University upperclassmen shaved "Cinco de Mayo" onto the back of his head as the entire football team watched....
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O'Donnell: Tauchman's leap year with Cubs tracks from Palatine to little bit o' SeoulAug 02, 2023 1:00 am - ONE YEAR AGO THURSDAY NIGHT — Aug. 3, 2022 — Mike Tauchman was exactly where he should have been in a professional baseball lineup. That would be batting first and p...
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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...