Jeff Long
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'Blue Chips' helps athletes take the lead in giving backFeb 02, 2008 10:00 pm - As sports fans, we tend to view athletes as commodities. How good a player is he? How fast? How big? How strong? We observe them almost exclusively on game nights, and c...
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East Aurora 67, Marmion 55Jan 26, 2008 10:00 pm - Trailing by six points at halftime, Marmion's basketball team scratched and clawed its way back to tie East Aurora midway through the third quarter. It took East Aurora ...
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Night of Hoops a trifecta of blockbustersJan 26, 2008 10:00 pm - The 15th Annual Batavia Night of Hoops might need a new name. It's gone from good to great to better in the last decade and a half. But next Saturday's lineup of marquee...
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Drug testing preps a bitter pill to swallowJan 19, 2008 10:00 pm - Next year, the governing body that oversees Illinois high school sports will begin investigating what's inside the bodies of teenage athletes. Drug testing. This is what...
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Geneva 68, Glenbard South 67Jan 18, 2008 10:00 pm - The Geneva boys basketball team certainly hasn't lacked for close games this season. So maybe it wasn't so surprising when Glenbard South turned a potential double-digi...
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High school intramurals have arrivedJan 12, 2008 10:00 pm - There's no mistaking its reputation when it comes to sports: West Aurora is a basketball school. Even long before Gordie Kerkman arrived nearly half a century ago, West ...
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ACC 60, St. Edward 53; Marmion 65, Driscoll 56Jan 11, 2008 10:00 pm - For three and half quarters, the game was a double-digit blowout. By all indications, high-flying Aurora Central would cruise to another big victory. Then things got hea...
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Halfway there and everything looks…bad?Jan 05, 2008 10:00 pm - One by one, they passed us by outside the locker room. Batavia boys basketball fans, all of them. And each wore a scowl as they descended the stairs from the upper balco...
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Batavia 45, Kaneland 38Jan 04, 2008 10:00 pm - School's out for a few more days, but Batavia's basketball team was confronted with a tough test on Friday night. The Bulldogs passed, albeit just barely, and had a hard...
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Eagles' shooting flies south in semifinalsDec 28, 2007 10:00 pm - It all started to snowball for Aurora Christian -- one missed shot after another, and another, and another. To make things even more difficult, the Chargers were playing...