Chicago Tribune Sports Columnists

David Haugh's In the Wake of the News

Don't judge ex-Bear Bradley by his cover - August 6, 2011 - All former Bears wide receiver Mark Bradley remembers was staring up at the ceiling lights of the hospital as they wheeled him in a gurney down the hallway of the emergency room.

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Steve Rosenbloom

Bring me the head of Alex Rios - August 4, 2011 - Yankees 18, White Sox 7, Someone fired.

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Phil Rogers

Teens learning Ripken way - August 6, 2011 - When Cal Ripken Jr. built his youth baseball facility in Aberdeen, Md., he wanted kids to get the feeling of what it is like to play in big-league stadiums. He spent heavily to construct a 3,500-seat replica of Camden Yards, complete with a hotel that stands in for the right-field warehouse...

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Dan Pompei

Vikings new, but not rebuilding - August 6, 2011 - MANKATO, Minn. — The soap opera that was Brett Favre is retired.

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Teddy Greenstein

18 holes with Charles Woodson - August 6, 2011 - KOHLER, Wis. — Short of making a birdie or getting attacked by snakes, Charles Woodson experienced it all on the front nine at Blackwolf Run's River Course — a 300-yard drive, chunked irons, thinned irons, two pars, a triple bogey, etc.

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Globetrotting by Philip Hersh

New kind of pressure on Schwartz - August 5, 2011 - Jillian Schwartz is trying to learn Hebrew, but it might be a good thing her knowledge remains limited.

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Fred Mitchell's Around Town

Bears newcomers try to fit in - July 31, 2011 - This is the time of year when football coaches typically refer to new players by their uniform numbers instead of their last names.

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Dan McNeil

The lost season - August 4, 2011 - It's been a dreadful week for White Sox fans, all of whom expected — at the minimum — a reasonable fight to the finish.

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Matt Bowen

Waiting for name to be called on draft day nerve-wracking - April 24, 2011 - The dynamic of the NFL draft goes much deeper than first-round picks walking across the stage in three-piece suits (bought by their agents) to shake the commissioner's hand.

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Don Dziedzina

Kankakee River wading - August 6, 2011 - While gathering information for last week's fishing report, Ed Mullady told me smallmouth bass were being caught in water so shallow that their backs could be seen while they swam along the banks of the Kankakee River.

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