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Major league umpire Sam Holbrook is calling the shots in the `Big Show'
Sam Holbrook is enjoying his break.
Holbrook is making the most of his time at home “knocking off all of the chores that built up over the summer” in Lexington before beginning another tour of duty as a Major League Baseball umpire this...Tags: College Baseball, Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Major League Baseball, High School Baseball, Entertainment
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Stars of today and yesteryear brighten Just for Laughs
The TBS Just for Laughs comedy festival has wrapped for another summer in Chicago, having played out in venues changing from the Chicago Theatre to Stage 773. Here are reviews from select shows over the weekend; check back Tuesday for a report on Bill...
Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Portlandia (tv program), Arts and Culture, TBS (tv network), Pakistan
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Phil Rogers' MLB power rankings
Last week's ranking in parentheses. 1. Cardinals (1): Slowed down a little since a 23-7 stretch April 30-June 1. But they have lost more than two games in a row only once and never more than three. Starting pitching limits losing streaks. 2. Tigers...Tags: B.J. Upton, Spring Training, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, Dusty Baker
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Voice of the People, Jun. 18
A lasting baseball giant Recently I experienced an act of absolute perfection: Not only did I see the Cubs lose in the ninth, I sat in great seats marveling at the perfection of Wrigley Field's storied legacy — days when Ernie Banks, Billy...Tags: White House, High School Baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Baseball, Ron Santo
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Helen Brush Jenkins dies at 94; pioneering photojournalist
With a click of the camera pressed against her forehead, the photojournalist broke ground in a way her male colleagues never could. Two weeks later in 1953, Life magazine printed the picture she took moments after giving birth at a Los Angeles hospital....
Tags: Baseball, Photography and Video, Sports, Arts and Culture, Services and Shopping
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Voice of the People
One-party system With the most recent downgrade of the state's credit rating, the failure of Illinois' one-party system is now complete. The refusal by the Democratic Party's hierarchy to face up to the state's massive financial problems, caused by the...Tags: Regional Authority, Northbrook, Long Grove, Michael Madigan, Illinois Governor
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Hawks have respect of Chicago peers
It hasn't been that many years ago that hockey in this city was a relative afterthought — a footnote to more serious sports discussions about the Bears, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox. Sports talk radio producers and station managers admonished their...
Tags: Joel Quenneville, Stan Bowman, Chicago Bulls, Theo Epstein, Sports
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Pitch to lure Cubs based on 'what-ifs', Naperville business leader says
What if the Chicago Cubs leave Wrigley Field for the suburbs and DuPage County officials hadn't courted the team? That's the question one Naperville business leader posed to explain why suburban leaders are working together to find a DuPage County...Tags: DuPage County, Chicago White Sox, Naperville, Chicago Cubs, Business Enterprises
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Hawk talk rampant at Wrigley after classic
Dale Sveum and Dusty Baker agreed on one thing: Wednesday night’s triple-overtime Stanley Cup final game at the United Center was an instant classic. “The opportunities both teams had… I mean, for watching on TV it was about the...
Tags: Cincinnati Reds, Dusty Baker, Sports, Chicago Blackhawks, Dale Sveum
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Borbon's pinch single in 14th worth wait for Cubs
While lobbying in April for his proposed $300 million renovation of Wrigley Field, Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts brought up the cramped clubhouse that includes a hitting net that lowers from the ceiling for pinch hitters to take hacks into. The Cubs are...
Tags: Jonathan Broxton, Baseball, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Julio Borbon
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DuPage County chairman wants to pitch Cubs on moving west
Clout StreetAdd DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin to the list of suburban politicians angling to lure the Chicago Cubs to his turf if there’s an unlikely collapse of the city-sanctioned framework plan to renovate Wrigley Field. Citing what he...Tags: Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, Thomas M. Tunney, Local Government, Thomas Ricketts
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DuPage chief latest to woo Cubs
Add DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin to the list of suburban politicians angling to lure the Chicago Cubs to his turf if there's an unlikely collapse of the city-sanctioned framework plan to renovate Wrigley Field. Citing what he described as a...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, Thomas M. Tunney, Local Government, Thomas Ricketts
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