End Zone
John Holecek’s winning percentage in armwrestling bouts against NFL Hall of Fame running backs isn’t anywhere close to the success rate (185-35, .841) he enjoyed in 17 seasons as Loyola…
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Cartoons
Keefer Still A Keeper
Glenn Keefer’s stint as a commercial fisherman on a lobster boat some 52 years ago did not exactly go swimmingly. The vessel, skippered by a rookie captain, caught fire and…
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Hometown Hender
When Tim Hender, 49, was Timmy Hender, Deer Path Middle School 8th grader, he’d join his peers on weekends in the basement of the Gorton Center in Lake Forest to…
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Perseverance Personified
Nigeria native Tamuriat Olabode spent her first night in America shivering in a cousin’s Chicago basement that doubled as her bedroom. The Muslim immigrant was 15, owned only the clothes…
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The Two Jakes
Stephen King, Wes Craven … Jake Jarvi. I can hear a giggling Jarvi, humble and stunned, now: My name, next to those names? Please. You’re kidding! Why? Because it’s warranted….
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The Greatest Gift
Brandon Myers was 6 when his family had to cut short a vacation in Hawaii. His maternal grandfather had died of a heart attack in Tennessee some 30 years ago….
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Jewish Christmas
There will be no stockings “hung by the chimney with care” this weekend for the Kalmans. No visions of sugar plums, reindeer sightings, or visits from St. Nick. But there…
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