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Scrambling for Hope This Bears’ Season
With a rough loss to the Green Bay Packers in the second game of the season can the Chicago Bears bounce back and show the promise they demonstrated in the season opener? Was the season opening game a fluke? The Bears had a strong start with the Indianapolis Colts, however last Thursday’s game with the [...]
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Homegrown Talent
With the IHSA State Basketball Playoffs underway, local high school players’ talents look promising It’s mid March and the Madness is in full swing. But it’s not only college basketball teams that are participating in the madness, locally, the Boy’s High School Basketball playoffs have begun. Varsity basketball teams from across the state of Illinois [...]
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The Return of Rose
With fireworks going off and lights flashing rather rapidly this past Monday, Chicago Bulls public address announcer Tommy Edwards uttered the two words that make children smile and grown men scream at the top of their lungs, “From Chicago!” Derrick Rose missed five games with lower back spasms and was listed a day-to-day since his [...]
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Will Injuries Keep Chicago Bulls from Playoffs?
There are good news and bad news for Bulls fans in this condensed NBA season. Going into Tuesday night’s game versus Sacramento, Chicago sat at the top of the NBA with a league best record of 23-7. They are the No. 2 overall defense holding opponents to 87 points per game. They wrapped up a [...]
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Luol Deng Added to Chicago Bulls’ Injured List
Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng has been deemed with a torn ligament week to week in his left hand. In 2005, it was his right hand that suffered a torn ligament and caused him to undergo surgery shutting down his rookie season. This time Deng is choosing to avoid surgery and will play through the pain [...]
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NBA Lockout: Owners and Players Reach Tentative Agreement
It took 149 days for a handshake between NBA Commissioner David Stern and head of the Players Association Billy Hunter to signify that the 2011-2012 NBA season will indeed be played. Around 3 a.m. Saturday morning a tentative deal between the NBA and its players agreed to a 66 game regular season that Stern says, [...]
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Players Say No Deal, End of NBA Season
In what will most likely go down as the worst business negotiation in the history of big business, NBA Commissioner David Stern, the owners of 30 NBA teams, NBA Player Association and head of the NBAPA Billy Hunter have all but completely scrapped the 2011-2012 NBA season. The “nuclear winter” as Stern so candidly put [...]
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