Peters can’t hide her talent—or her emotions
The ball passed through the hoop and the referee's whistle signaled the foul and the free throw to come. Fenwick's Devereaux Peters, author of said basket, sensed a state championship...
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Bolingbrook takes ugly semi from Morton
Interested in acquiring a souvenir video of the Class AA girls basketball semifinal between Bolingbrook and Morton on Saturday? Act fast. Someone is liable to burn all evidence that game...
Marian Catholic chills, and survives
There are jitters, and then there are the kind of full-body shakes that make handling kitchen utensils an ICU trip waiting to happen. Marian Catholic wasn't quite at the stage...
Blackhawks lose in shootout to Canucks
The kindly puckheads at the Canadian cable-television hockey mother ship produced this statistic in advance of the Blackhawks attempting Friday to solve Vancouver goalie Roberto Luongo: Luongo has faced more...
Bears fall in sloppy Super Bowl
In the end, they were a haggard, beaten bunch. The Bears were not stripped of their pride nor were they the authors of a performance that whitewashed all that had...
Offbeat facts and figures
Every matchup seemingly has been dissected to the point of analyzing the tensile strength of shoelaces. No angle, element or possibility appears to have been lost or underplayed in the...
Stars come out for Shaq party
There was much excitement locally for Thursday night's Dwyane Wade-LeBron James meeting in the Heat-Cavaliers matchup, but the real action took place poolside afterward. That's when Shaquille O'Neal was to...
. . . And Rocca gets a question
Congratulations, little-known and rarely used Jamar Williams and Brandon McGowan: The Super Bowl officially made you national, assuming the two don't hit the cutting-room floor of "The Tonight Show." The...
Menounos gets the answer . . .
Typically, Brian Urlacher considers media duties as enjoyable as exploratory surgery. But the Pro Bowler perked up when entertainment reporter/pop tart Maria Menounos of "Access Hollywood" managed to squeeze in...
Will Bears kick it with Becks?
If there need be a literal kicking off of Super Bowl week, the man to handle the job might be en route. After all, what would a week dedicated to...