Other Sports
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Sports cards, memorabilia businesses see spike in salesMay 29, 2020 1:00 am - If you happen to have $900,000 collecting dust, have they got a deal for you. Because of its gaudy price it made headlines that a signed rookie baseball card of Los Ang...
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O'Donnell: Kaepernick protest takes on new meaning this weekMay 29, 2020 1:00 am - FOUR YEARS AGO, two young Americans of color protested police brutality in very different ways. Colin Kaepernick was the more famous and visually enduring. And his sidel...
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O'Donnell: Arlington mouses behind as Pritzker OKs resumption of racingMay 29, 2020 1:00 am - LIVE HORSE RACING in Illinois is being given the green light to resume next week. But not a creature will be stirring at Arlington Park. Not even an out-of-state corpora...
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Postponed French Open topics: Rafa's 20th? Serena's 24th?
May 28, 2020 7:00 am - If the French Open were being held as scheduled right now -- instead of postponed to September because of the coronavirus pandemic -- Rafael Nadal would have been seekin...
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Tour of Lake Ellyn, rest of cycling series canceledMay 28, 2020 1:00 am - A premier cycling series with races from Elgin to Elmhurst to Glen Ellyn won't return this summer. Organizers of the Intelligentsia Cup called off the 2020 edition of th...
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Different drills to help golfers when in the "Red Zone"May 28, 2020 1:00 am - About five years ago I cracked open a book called "Golf's Red Zone Challenge." The goal of authors Charlie King and Rob Akins is to get us hackers to understand that hon...
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Illinois' annual PGA Tour event canceledMay 28, 2020 1:00 am - Illinois won't have its longest-standing PGA Tour stop this year. The John Deere Classic was canceled Thursday. The JDC, the only PGA Tour event held annually in the sta...
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Could be limited - or no - fans at a September French Open
May 27, 2020 7:00 am - PARIS (AP) - With the new $55 million (50 million euros) retractable roof shut atop a barren Court Philippe Chatrier - where the red clay has dimmed to an orange-brown, ...
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Grand Slam winners to play in new Charleston tennis event
May 27, 2020 7:00 am - CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Australian Open champions Victoria Azarenka and Sofia Kenin and U.S. Open winners Sloane Stephens and Bianca Andreescu will take part in the Cred...
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Two horse racing tracks at the starting gates, but will Arlington scratch?May 27, 2020 1:00 am - It'll be post time for live horse racing without spectators at two of Illinois' three racetracks as soon as next week, but some fear the third - Arlington International ...