Articles filed under Sports Leagues
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‘I have truly lived the dream’: Dan Schatzeder went from major-league pitcher to suburban teacher and coachAug 04, 2024 6:00 am - What did Elmhurst native Dan Schatzeder do after his Major League Baseball career ended?
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White Sox losing streak reaches 19 as Kepler hits go-ahead, 7th-inning homer in Twins’ 6-2 winAug 03, 2024 9:53 pm - MINNEAPOLIS — The White Sox extended their team-record losing streak to 19, giving up Max Kepler's tiebreaking home run in the seventh inning that lifted the Minnesota Tw...
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Cubs’ eighth-inning fielding mix-up allows Cardinals to rally for 5-4 winAug 03, 2024 6:27 pm - A Cubs fielding mix-up allowed Nolan Arenado's short fly to drop for a tying, 2-run single in a 3-run eighth inning, Tommy Pham tripled and scored in the ninth and the St...
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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 seasonAug 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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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...