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Hampton joins club
Tribune pro football reporterDan Hampton's day in the 93-degree sun fittingly began in a parade where he sat in a car with presenter Ed O'Bradovich between two high school marching bands. Hampton might have been just as happy playing the saxophone he reluctantly gave up in 11th...Tags: Festive Events, Mike Ditka, Football, National Football League, Rose Bowl Game
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Making a splash, then quick dash
Tribune staff reporterIf Chad Hutchinson has a role model these days, it should be Virgil Carter. The parallels abound. In 1968, Carter, like Hutchinson on Sunday, was the fourth quarterback of the season for the struggling Bears. He came out of nowhere (in Carter's case,...Tags: Basketball, Bleep (euphemism), Education, Katharine Hepburn, Football
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Play-by-play commentary
ChicagoSports.comIt's New Orleans this week. Home of paper-bag-wearing fans, the Neville and Marsalis clans, crawfish Po' Boys, Girls Gone Wild and Super Bowl XX. Bears 46, Patriots 10. Grab your beignets and café au lait. Aiee! This game's in Champaign, I'm told....Tags: Jerry Azumah, David Sloan, Moby, Crimes, Moving
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Plans for Burris to play get lost as Chandler finds success
Tribune staff reporterQ What happened to the plan to play Henry Burris more during the final games of this lost season? A Burris got in for one play Sunday — a third-and-1 rollout from a T-formation. Offensive coordinator John Shoop said Chris Chandler was playing so well...Tags: Basketball, Colleges and Universities, Football, Henry Burris, Chicago Bears
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Great Coaching
Latimes.com ColumnistCoaching seems to be the decisive variable in the development of a successful football team, although, in New Orleans as well as in Philadelphia on Sunday, that might not be apparent. One game doesn't make a career. The odds are that Jim Haslett of...Tags: Death, Terrell Davis, Bill Walsh, Jacquez Green, Warrick Dunn
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Warner's Teammates Outplay Garcia's
Latimes.com ColumnistEven though Kurt Warner threw five touchdown passes for St. Louis--five more than Jeff Garcia threw for San Francisco--the NFL's hottest pair of new quarterbacks seemed reasonably similar in football ability Sunday as the Rams outscored the 49ers in St....Tags: Adam Vinatieri, Jeff Garcia, Charlie Garner, Drew Bledsoe, Bill Walsh
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Mike Singletary's Hall of Fame speech
Singletary's wife, Kim, introduces him: If I were to ask you to describe Mike Singletary, No. 50 for the Chicago Bears, no doubt you would mention the arms extended with fingers pointing, hollering signals before the ball is snapped. Or feet in constant...Tags: Death, Colleges and Universities, Education, Football, Family
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From the Cubicle
ChicagoSports.comWelcome everyone to the play-by-play commentary of the Cubs home opener against the Montreal Expos. Bonjour to all the Expos fans. It's flat out brutal out, more suitable for the Iditarod than baseball with the wind blowing in from left-center and the...Tags: Jose Vidro, Death, Frank Robinson, Mark Guthrie, National League
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A joyous jaunt
Tribune staff reporterEver since training camp the Bears' goal was simple: win the NFC Central Division and then worry about what happens next. Sunday the Bears achieved that goal and then some, trampling the Jacksonville Jaguars 33-13 to clinch their first division title...Tags: Jerry Azumah, Mike Hollis, Mike Ditka, Football, Alfonso Boone
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In the zone: Sports halls of fame from Chicago to Boston
Tribune staff reporterCollege Football Hall of Fame 111 S. St. Joseph St. South Bend, IN 46601 800-440-3263 Yearly attendance: 65,000 Link to sport: Location of college football powerhouse, the University of Notre Dame. Inductees: 924 Civic effort to found hall: Competing...Tags: Travel, Wrestling, National Hockey League, Colleges and Universities, Canadian Football
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Hall of Fame Highway
Tribune staff reporterMaybe there's something in the soil. Maybe there's a wrinkle in the Earth's gravitational fields. Maybe it's the roadway itself, somehow cosmically attractive. Whatever the reason, I-90, wending its 1,000-mile way between Chicago and Boston, traverses...Tags: Travel, Death, Colleges and Universities, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Head
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34 . . . say no more
Tribune staff reporterIt wasn't just the way it happened or how it happened or where it happened. It was all of it. Beating the Packers. Winning one for Walter. Handing their most despised rivals their second humiliating loss in less than a week. It was so much to...Tags: Brett Favre, Bobby Engram, James Allen, Death, Glyn Milburn
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