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Mayor Daley's decision to blame the media for Oprah Winfrey's career-altering choice is very revealing.
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South Side, we have a problem. A 6-4, 285-pound problem that better be resolved before feelings get hurt and relationships are destroyed. After a calf injury ended closer Bobby Jenks' season Sept. 22, feelings began to strain. The right-hander believed the club -- based on comments made by manager Ozzie Guillen -- was being overly critical of his conditioning.
Wisconsin fans will bring the energy. Northwestern fans will bring the bon mots and brie. And the unpredictable regular season of the Wildcats will thankfully, happily, mercifully pitter-patter to an end at Ryan Field today.
It's gotten to the point the Bears probably won't solve their running-game woes this season, but that doesn't mean they've run out of effective uses for Matt Forte. He caught a career-high eight passes for 120 yards last week at San Francisco and has 194 yards receiving in the last two games as offensive coordinator Ron Turner finds ways to adjust to a bottled-up ground game.
Jeremiah Kelly had a career-high 18 points and eight rebounds, and DePaul closed with a 20-6 run to beat Northern Iowa 60-52 on Friday in the first round of the Paradise Jam in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
Doug Martin ran for 121 yards and four touchdowns, and No. 6 Boise State remained unbeaten and in BCS contention with a 52-21 victory over Utah State on Friday night in Logan, Utah.
Our resident handicapping maven Mark Potash gives you the winners for Week 11 in the NFL. Who will win the Bears' game? Our pick might surprise you!
Search the 2009 school report cards for all public schools in the state. Type in the school's name or choose from one of the drop down menus by selecting the county, the school district or the city in where a school is.
First mammograms. Now -- in an apparent coincidence -- Pap smears.
New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer. The change comes amid a separate debate over when regular mammograms to
detect breast cancer should begin, in the 40s or the 50s.
Nicolas Cage figures he owes no apologies when critics gripe about all the Hollywood action flicks he's done. An Academy Award winner for "Leaving Las Vegas," Cage says commercial movies provide the freedom to do smaller, smarter films such as his offbeat cop tale "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans."
McCormick Place has seen nearly a third of its business vanish this decade, a period that saw two recessions. Attendance at major events in Chicago's main convention center declined from 3 million in 2001 to 2.3 million last year. Las Vegas and Orlando held up somewhat better but likewise have seen attendance fall off since the middle of the decade. But there's a silver lining for Chicago in its loss of two large conventions this month: It shows that the competing cities have space to fill.
3 charged with robbing victims lured via Web site 
