Prep Football
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Week 1: Scouting the East Suburban CatholicAug 24, 2017 1:00 am - Benet at St. LaurenceGame time: 7:30 p.m. Friday. The quick hit: St. Laurence beat the Redwings last year, but both teams used the game as a springboard to the state...
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Expect a royally entertaining MSL West raceAug 23, 2017 1:00 am - The Mid-Suburban West football race will be a wild one again this fall. "Until someone dethrones Palatine, they are the champions," Barrington coach Joe Sanchez said. "B...
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Upstate Eight, as we know it, ready for its last hurrahAug 23, 2017 1:00 am - It's the end of the Upstate Eight as we know it, and most feel fine. This marks the final season before conference tectonics shift yet again, reshaping the local footbal...
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One last time for the full DVCAug 23, 2017 1:00 am - Once more unto the breach... DuPage Valley Conference football may not be as poetic as Shakespeare's Henry V, but for decades it's epitomized excellence on the gridiron....
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Easing our way into the seasonAug 22, 2017 11:00 pm - Oh...you again? Welcome back, all you fine football friends! Glad you could join me for another season of Eyes on Five — the weekly column (in every Wednesday's Daily He...
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Buffalo Grove takes aim at breakthrough seasonAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - It seems like forever since Buffalo Grove won a Mid-Suburban East football title. And to the Bison, those 15 years seem like an eternity. The current crop of Buffalo Gro...
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Montini looking to reel in FenwickAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - Bounced from a Class 7A championship appearance last season by an official's error in its semifinal, Fenwick tried to make sense of the lost opportunity. A friend of co...
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A shifting target in WSCAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - Glenbard West's football program learned to live with the target on its back in the West Suburban Conference Silver Division. Will it drift away from the Hilltoppers thi...
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Prairie Ridge still team to beat in FVC, but others have improvedAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - Good luck picking a winner in the ever-improving Fox Valley Conference. The nine-team league sent five members to the 2016 playoffs. Four advanced to quarterfinals in th...
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Johnsburg still the team to beat in Kishwaukee RiverAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - Any conversation about the Kishwaukee River Conference begins with Johnsburg. Coach Dan DeBoeuf's team was the Class 4A state runner-up last season and the Skyhawks' ret...