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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by Bill McLean •
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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by Bill McLean •
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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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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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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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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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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Josh Wolff and his big brother, Ben, found themselves transfixed by Saturday Night Live sketches as youngsters growing up in the Washington, D.C. area. Especially any that starred either Dana…
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Mike Pasquesi was a first-year track and field athlete as a senior at Lake Forest High School in 1988. Coaches slotted him in the 800-meter run, a grueling event. It’s…
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It could be said that musical talent helped the late Masha Pietkowski survive the Holocaust. She played the mandolin in an all-female orchestra at the Auschwitz concentration camp for nearly…
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Three-time UCLA men’s basketball champion Larry Farmer sits in a conference room at his new employer—Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart in Lake Forest—and recalls the moment he turned down…
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