Tag: Sports

Northern Illinois football Spring focus: Execute better

By Bobby Narang Northern Illinois University head football coach Thomas Hammock has his program at a crossroads. Three years ago, in the shortened coronavirus pandemic season, the Huskies lost all six of their games. Two years ago, the Huskies won five straight games in the middle of the season to...

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Houston Astros seek repeat World Series championship

By Woodrow Carroll If the Houston Astros come away as World Series champions in 2023, it will end a drought going back to 2000. Not since the New York Yankees made it three straight in World Series championships, 1998-2000, has a team repeated as World Series champions. The Yankees just...

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Changes in sports occur frequently, positively

Innovation in sports, except for the stubborn. hardcore, traditionalists, is welcome. Something new, often improvement, and, at the least experimentation, are involved. It happens often, every week, even every day. Major League Baseball (MLB) has changed rules on infielders’ positions, the time batters can stand out of the batters box,...

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Kyle Larson wins Richmond, Va. 400 NASCAR Cup race

By John Schutt NASCAR Cup Series, Toyota Owners 400, Richmond Raceway, Richmond, Va., Sunday, April 2. A good pit stop near the end of the race with 25 laps to go, put Kyle Larson out front where he stayed to win the race. Following in second place was Josh Berry,...

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Oswego East aim: Build on girls soccer success

By Bobby Narang The Oswego East High School girls soccer team is looking to build following last season’s success. The Wolves want to strike magic again this Spring. Thus far, the Wolves are on the right track. One year ago, the Wolves made soccer program history by winning their first...

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Both Final Four tournaments offer excitement, Madness

By Woodrow Carroll Both the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournament championship games played out last weekend and last Monday, April 3. Each offered plenty of excitement, and, with a plethora of story lines. South Carolina captured the women’s national championship last season with a 64-49 victory over Connecticut in...

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Playoffs the goals; Beverley helps Bulls’ final push

The playoffs are the goal at nearly every level The Chicago Bulls are on the cusp and through Monday this week has a mathematical chance to be in postseason play. There were three games remaining in the regular season following Tuesday’s game this week in Atlanta. The Bulls were just...

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Caden Pierce, Braden Huff, find NCAA perspective

By Bobby Narang Caden Pierce has gained the experience of a lifetime of memories in a two-year span. Last year, Pierce played a leading role in one of the best seasons for a Chicagoland basketball team in the last few decades. Pierce and Braden Huff were the main figures, but...

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March Madness basketball tournament remains unsettled

By Woodrow Carroll To understand the upsets in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament think of the number 23, is the combined seeding total of the four teams which made it to the Saturday, April 1 Final Four this season. To clarify, the four teams that were ranked No. 1 when...

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Season of sports transitions, Steel stays with quality

Postseason pulls in extra fans because of the conditions: Defeat sends home one of the two teams until the following year. Wait ‘til next year is the refrain seldom appreciated in the whirl of sports. • Last weekend the Chicago Steel of the The United States Hockey League became the...

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Chiefs’ Marquez NJCAA, Player of the Week

Waubonsee Community College’s Johnny Marquez was named the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division III Baseball Player of the Week for the week of March 8-14. The Chiefs’ left-handed hitting first baseman batted .500 over the course of Waubonsee’s first four games of this season. A graduate of South...

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Junior golfers’ event at Springbrook April 15

Junior golfers and their parents are invited to the 2023 Junior Golfapalooza, a fun, educational event at Springbrook Golf Course in Naperville to kick off the 2023 golf season. The event will take place Saturday, April 15 for ages 5-17, including returning players and those new to the game. Registration...

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