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Edgy's blog | Could be price to pay for playing more than one sport
It's never easy when to talk about multisport athletes and football recruiting. In an age of specialization and year-round training specific to one sport, I want to believe that the two- and three-sport athlete can survive. Sure, there are some...
Tags: Baseball, Sports, High School Sports
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Edgy Tim's football blog | Searching for resolutions in the new year
With a new year just around the corner, I've been looking ahead to some important high school football issues I think the Illinois High School Association will need to address soon. As far as I'm concerned, no issue is more pressing than the financial...
Tags: High School Sports
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Edgy's football blog | Time to put semis in neutral
The topic pops up on cue annually at this time. Should state semifinals be held at neutral sites? You can make a case on both sides of this debate. Several schools with natural home surfaces will host games this weekend. Rain last weekend caused...
Tags: High School Sports
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Helfgot's football blog | Isn't it ironic, or something?
I don't know whether or not it's irony, but I find it (fill in appropriate word here) that the sport most impacted by coaching is the same one that has the largest number of players participate.
I'm sure there were good football players at Marist and...Tags: Philosophy, Football, Sports, High School Sports
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Edgy's Monday Evening Quarterback | Week 9
There were a few upsets in Week 8 as we move closer to finding out the Illinois High School Association state playoff field. Biggest surprise: Benet 34, Marist 24. The talk all season was that Benet had a nice record but really hadn't been tested....
Tags: Big 12 Conference, Football, Sports
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Edgy's football blog | Looking to transfer? Enjoy sitting
The days of high school athletes staying at one high school for four years seems as outdated as MySpace. Name the high school sport and I promise you the rash of kids transferring is an issue. I wish most kids were transferring for a better academic...
Tags: Schools, High Schools, High School Sports
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Edgy blog | It's not easy being Ty Isaac
Ty Isaac is the top-ranked player in Illinois. It seems like the Joliet Catholic senior running back has the football world by its tail. But life can't be easy for the USC recruit. Orally committed since the spring. Scholarship offers from about every...
Tags: Football, Sports, High School Sports, Awards and Prizes
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Helfgot's football blog | He picks 'em, Class 5A-8A
The NFL has Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football and Thursday Night Football. Come playoff time, they play on Saturday night, too. College football is on five nights a week and all day Saturday. Spoiled as a fan, it just doesn't seem fair...
Tags: Christianity, National Football League, Roman Catholicism, High School Sports, Chicago Bears
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Helfgot's football blog | Glenbard North's punishment doesn't fit the 5-year-old crime
Glenbard North's seniors were seventh-graders the night things got out of hand following the dramatic 32-28 playoff victory against Fremd that sent the Panthers to the Class 8A semifinals in 2007. Coach Ryan Wilkens remembers huddling with his players...
Tags: Punishment, High School Sports
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Helfgot's football blog | Bailey cleared, but will he play? Class 8A picks, too
Aaron Bailey was the biggest difference-maker in the Class 8A playoffs in 2011. A year after leading Bolingbrook to its first state championship, Bailey is the biggest X-factor in the Class 8A field this season. The Illinois-bound quarterback...
Tags: High School Sports
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Edgy Tim O'Halloran on football | Transfer pace picking up, but process not
I can't fathom the hours being put in at the Illinois High School Association offices investigating and ruling on football eligibility and transfers.
I can understand, in this economy, families pulling kids from private schools and enrolling them in...Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools, Schools, High School Sports
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Edgy's football blog | Progress being made on concussion front, so no need for law
First-year Johnsburg football coach Mike Maloney has been around the game for most of his life — first as a standout player at Joliet Catholic, then at Illinois and finally at the high school level again as a head coach at Joliet Central and now...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Schools, Football, Concussion, High Schools
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