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Western receives donation
In honor of Western Illinois University's 1944 championship baseball team, Jack and Margaret Stites made a generous donation of $10,000 toward Western's new baseball stadium.
Jack Stites, an infielder on the championship squad that consisted of only nine players during their championship run, wanted something to remember his teammates by.…
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Harmon named Western running backs coachFormer Iowa, NFL standout joins Leathernecks coaching staff
Former University of Iowa and San Diego Chargers standout Ronnie Harmon has accepted a position as a Western Illinois
University assistant football coach, replacing Larry Holton. Harmon assumes responsibility for the Leatherneck running backs and fullbacks immediately, joining the Leatherneck coaching staff after a successful career in the NFL.…
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Top teams will be separated in NCAA Tourney draw
MILWAUKEE (KRT) - As soon as next season, a system could be in place that guarantees the top two teams in the NCAA men's basketball tournament would play each other only in the national championship game.
The selection committee has recommended to the NCAA that it rank the tournament's four No.…
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Bryant, police seen at Colorado hospitalLakers star escorted out of hospital by officers after knee surgery, assault allegations
CORDILLERA, Colo. (KRT) - More than 12 hours after a 19-year-old woman accused him of felony sexual assault, Lakers star Kobe Bryant left a Colorado hospital accompanied by three members of his entourage early July 2.
Terry O'Brien, 38, a Vail Taxi dispatcher and driver, told The Orange County Register that he picked up Bryant from the emergency room at Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs.…
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Mystery at Baylor UniversityMissing player a devastating blow
WACO, Texas (KRT) - As the broiling summer sun finally set on this high plains college town Wednesday, Baylor student Chris Johnson sat at a picnic table and popped open another beer while his friends lounged around the pool and played volleyball at the Sterling University Parks apartments.…
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Crime Stoppers joins hunt
WACO, Texas (KRT) - The local Crime Stoppers is joining the hunt for missing Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy.
The CBS affiliate in Waco, KWTX-TV, began airing public service announcements Tuesday that offer up to $2,000 for information that helps police find Dennehy, who has been missing for more than three weeks.…
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LeBron James shows he can really play basketball
ORLANDO, Fla. (KRT) - So now we understand a little.
LeBron James can play. He can really play.
He swiveled and contorted his body on one astonishing reverse. He whisked passes by defender's ears and into teammates' hands. He dunked and made himself look all tough afterward, kind of like how Tracy McGrady does.…
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Tiger on the lookout for a 'hot' driver
(KRT) - When Tiger Woods revealed last week that he had confronted another Tour pro he suspects of playing with an illegal "hot" driver, he said he got all the proof he needed watching the guy hit balls at the range.
"You can tell in the first 100 yards how the golf ball is taking off and how it's flying," Woods, who has declined to identify the player, told reporters on the eve of the Western Open at Cog Hill in Chicago.…
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The Closing Minutes
SPORTS BRIEFS Gateway television schedule finalized MACOMB - The I-AA football television schedule was recently finalized, and includes three Western Illinois University games during the Centennial season. The Leathernecks' Homecoming game against national champion Western Kentucky, Oct.…
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