Pro Sports
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‘Definitely a cool moment’: Kmet savored trip to Canton, seeing McMichael’s jerseyAug 03, 2024 5:57 pm - Bears tight end Cole Kmet took a nice, long look at the No. 76 jersey hanging at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The Bears toured the Hall of Fame this wee...
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‘Welcome home, Steve’: McMichael enters the Pro Football Hall of Fame in ceremony at his homeAug 03, 2024 4:39 pm - Steve McMichael couldn't make it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, so the ceremony came to him. Battling ALS and bedridden in the advanced stages of the neurological dise...
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About the Games, not to mention the games, and the people who play themAug 03, 2024 12:42 pm - Some things you suspect, some things you guess and some things you just know. All those socks, all those years, that got lost in all those driers have shown up as the Par...
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Bears DE Austin Booker will ‘get better in the shadows’ during rookie season
Aug 03, 2024 12:30 pm - Austin Booker believes the NFL is sleeping on him, and he’s fine with that. The Bears rookie defensive end flew under the radar when he transferred to Kansas last year, a...
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Jim O’Donnell: Thayer delivers moving ad-lib tribute to ‘Mongo’ on AM-1000Aug 03, 2024 10:00 am - THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME WEEKEND in Canton was intended to serve in part as tribute to Steve McMichael — almost elegiac in tone — and it was. The storm-shortened...
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Big Ten expansion doesn’t end the era of change in college sportsAug 03, 2024 6:00 am - USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon officially joined the Big Ten on Thursday, meaning the formerly Midwestern conference now stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Tha...
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Cougars crush Sioux City after visitors survive fire on busAug 02, 2024 10:37 pm - For a second straight game, the Kane County Cougars put double digits on the scoreboard, as the home team collected 18 hits in an 11-1 romp over the Sioux City Explorers ...
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Three Chicago Dogs players hit home runs as the team cruises past Gary 12-3Aug 02, 2024 10:33 pm - The Dogs finally returned home after the all-star break and an eight-game road trip, hosting Gary for a three-game series. The Dogs hit three home runs to win 12-3 Friday...
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Twins send White Sox to 18th straight loss with 10-2 rompAug 02, 2024 10:05 pm - MINNEAPOLIS — Royce Lewis homered and had a season-high 4 RBI and the Minnesota Twins sent the White Sox to their 18th straight loss, romping to a 10-2 victory Friday nig...
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Giants’ Blake Snell throws 1st no-hitter in 3-0 win over the RedsAug 02, 2024 9:53 pm - CINCINNATI — Blake Snell was one out away from pitching the first no-hit game in his illustrious career and had to get power-hitting Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz one mo...