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, Dec 20, 2012
People Issue 2012:
Kayce Ataiyero, the GM
"Even as a lifelong basketball fan I didn't appreciate how complex the business is."
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, Sep 13, 2012
All or nothing as usual for White Sox
The White Sox and Detroit Tigers face one last grudge match after the Tigers trim the Sox' lead to one game
by Ted Cox
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, Sep 3, 2012
Tossing the pigskin around all week long on the Bleader
This week's Variations on a Theme asks, "Are you ready for some football?"
by Tal Rosenberg
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, Aug 10, 2012
Fake Olympics: Bake Olympics edition
Did Olympics commercials really inspire me to my own act of Olympian greatness?
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, Jul 31, 2012
The science of swimsuits
Technology that wins gold medals
by Heather Kenny
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, Jun 27, 2012
Will Eno turns off the social filters
They're all telling the truth in
Oh, the Humanity!
by Tony Adler
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, Jun 1, 2012
Once again, it's fútbol, not football, at Soldier Field
What did the the Mexico-Bosnia soccer game at Soldier Field have to say about a nation of immigrants?
by Asher Klein
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, Mar 21, 2012
Even winners go out losers
DePaul and senior Deanna Ortiz bow out of the NCAA tourney
by Steve Bogira
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, Mar 8, 2012
Obsolescence Week: save the game lead
Can the traditional sports game lead survive in the age of video on demand?
by Ted Cox
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, Feb 23, 2012
Our itch to write about jocks
When journalists preach on sport's Big Themes, they're lecturing the wayward
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, Feb 9, 2012
Cheering for losers
Even the excellent DePaul women’s basketball team stinks it up when I get behind them
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, Nov 18, 2011
The new "Cubs way": No nonsense
Dale Sveum becomes the new Cubs manager, and it's business as unusual.
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, Oct 8, 2011
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Mocksession explores the funny, painful, and bizarre margins of sports
Mocksession.com captures the peculiar and odd moments in sports, so that you can see someone get hit in the face with a foul ball over and over and over again, without interruption.
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, Aug 30, 2011
A new interest in the economy
On Obama's coming jobs speech, another stimulus, and the need to bone up on economics.
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, Aug 25, 2011
The doubledays of summer
Baseball fans double their "pleasure" with both Cubs and Sox in town
by Ted Cox
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, Jul 20, 2011
Squeaker on pavement:
a pickup basketball game goes down to the last shot
by Mick Dumke
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, Jun 9, 2011
And on the second day, Eggers writes about Wrigley
On the second day of Bill Simmons' new website, Grantland, Dave Eggers contributes a piece on Wrigley Field and the Cubs.
by Kevin Warwick
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, Dec 10, 2010
Through 12/31—Free Pair of Ice Skates for Shoppers in Lakeview
Trade $400 in receipts from purchases in Lakeview to get free ice skates.
by John V. Santore
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, Jun 23, 2010
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Of Course There's a Dance Single About Vuvuzelas
An inevitable event occurs.
by Miles Raymer
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, Nov 30, 2009
Should We Remember Mike Penner or Christine Daniels?
The dueling obituaries of a transgender sportswriter.
by Amanda Hess
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