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Women's Watch: A look back at the top moments in 2018

By Patricia Babcock McGraw
Jan 4, 2019 7:48 PM - Women's Watch takes a look back at 10 of the best women's sports stories of 2018.
DePaul basketball coach Bruno sidelined after spinal surgery

By Patricia Babcock McGraw
Dec 15, 2018 6:46 AM - Longtime DePaul coach might be going from his usual place on the sidelines to being sidelined himself while he recovers from spinal surgery.
Babcock McGraw: Suburban mom ready to tackle Chicago Marathon, eyes Olympics

By Patricia Babcock McGraw
Oct 7, 2018 6:00 AM - Attention women: Just because you're in your late 30s and have kids (even as many as 4 kids), your competitive athletic life isn't over. Suburban runner Jeannie Sullivan, a mom of four kids under age 9, will be running the Chicago Marathon on Sunday and is flirting with a qualifying time for the 2020 Olympic Trials.
These senior woman are still ballers on the court

By Patricia Babcock McGraw
Sep 21, 2018 7:03 PM - Retiring at 65? Not from basketball. Meet some senior women who are going strong on the hardwood into their 60s, 70s and even 80s. The National Senior Olympics recently held a qualifying event in West Dundee for basketball and a handful of Chicago area women qualified. The national event, featuring athletes ages 50 to 100, will take place in New Mexico in June 2019.
Rozner: For a night, Team USA women give gift of sport

By Barry Rozner
Feb 22, 2018 7:44 PM - For a few hours Thursday morning, social media was a happy place after Team USA beat Canada in women's Olympic hockey.
Gold! U.S. women's Olympic hockey team beats Canada in OT

Associated Press
Feb 22, 2018 1:49 AM - Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scored in the first extra round of the first shootout tiebreaker in Olympic women's hockey history to give the United States the gold medal with a 3-2 victory over Canada.
It's Russians, then everybody else in figure skating short program

Liz Clarke
Feb 21, 2018 10:04 AM - The Russian teens who have dominated women's figure skating all season -- 15-year-old Alina Zagitova and two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva, 18, float impossibly high above the rest -- part ballerina, part butterfly -- tricking their adoring audience into believing that what they do is simply too pretty to be a sport.
Lindsey Vonn's Olympic downhill farewell a lovely shade of bronze

Rick Maese
Feb 21, 2018 9:44 AM - At 33, Lindsey Vonn became the oldest Olympic medalist in the women's downhill. Everyone in the field Wednesday knew they were watching a master work with an Olympic downhill canvas for a final time.
Olympic bronze doesn't begin to tell the story of Lindsey Vonn

Barry Svrluga
Feb 21, 2018 9:57 AM - Lindsey Vonn is the best female ski racer in history, full stop. At some point, and some point soon, we can discuss whether we can drop "female" from that description, respectfully shove the Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark to the side, and leave her atop the podium, alone.
Carpentersville skater Tennell's Olympic performance doesn't disappoint home crowd

By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Feb 20, 2018 10:04 PM - Dozens of friends, fans and families gathered Tuesday night in the lobby of Twin Rinks Ice Pavilion in Buffalo Grove, Bradie Tennell's home rink, to watch the Olympic figure skater compete in the women's short program.

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