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| Notre Dame WR cited for underage drinking Thu, 17 May 2012 05:43:00 GMT Another player has run into alcohol-related trouble. 
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| Pujols' 3-run homer lifts Angels over Sox Thu, 17 May 2012 05:08:00 GMT Slugger hits only 2nd of year but it's enough in 7-2 victory Slugger hits only 2nd of year but it's enough in 7-2 win. 
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| Cubs again let down hard-luck starter Thu, 17 May 2012 04:26:00 GMT Garza gives up only 2 runs but bullpen allows 7 in 8th and 9th of Phillies 9-2 victory Garza gives up only 2 runs, but bullpen allows 7. 
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| Injured Rose has clear vision to follow Thu, 17 May 2012 03:00:00 GMT It took seasons to contend after MVP returned from serious injury but result legendary Haugh: Bulls, Rose should follow Jordan's recovery path. 
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| Big Ten ADs getting in line with 4-team playoff Thu, 17 May 2012 02:31:00 GMT Conference will push to keep bowls part of process, shorten bowl season to Dec. 25-Jan. 1 Dave Brandon still opposes a college football playoff. But the Michigan athletic director doesn't consider the idea of four teams playing three games to determine a national champion to be a playoff. 
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| QB sent unmistakable signal to offensive line Thu, 17 May 2012 00:56:00 GMT that it must step up play for team to succeed Matt Bowen: When the quarterback talks, the rest of the locker room should listen up. And when they raise the bar, as Jay Cutler did with his offensive line earlier this week, the team better take notice. 
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| Sox instructor, former reliever Kevin Hickey dies at 56 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:32:00 GMT Unlikely major leaguer was found unresponsive in hotel room the day before opener Kevin Hickey was described perfectly by former White Sox general manager Roland Hemond as "a South Side kid made good." 
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| Cubs may call up Maine to replace Castillo Wed, 16 May 2012 22:16:00 GMT Castillo will be examined by a team physician. 
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| Sox stick with Beckham in No. 2 spot Wed, 16 May 2012 21:41:00 GMT White Sox play Angels on Wednesday night. 
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| Intimidation charge for Irish LB Calabrese Wed, 16 May 2012 21:22:00 GMT Misdemeanor following a May 3 arrest at house party. 
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| Reader Q&A: Dan Pompei's Bears mailbag Wed, 16 May 2012 19:46:00 GMT The Tribune's Bears columnist fields questions on Brandon Marshall, Alshon Jeffery, Earl Bennett and more in this week's mailbag. The Tribune's Bears columnist fields questions on Brandon Marshall, Alshon Jeffery, Earl Bennett and more in this week's mailbag. 
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| Michigan AD Brandon: 'No problem' with four-team playoff Wed, 16 May 2012 17:50:00 GMT Dave Brandon was not a fan of a college football playoff. But four teams playing a total of two games to determine a champion is not a playoff, per the Michigan athletic director. 
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| Cubs vs. Sox series? It's 'irrelevant, dude' Wed, 16 May 2012 16:52:00 GMT Steve Rosenbloom: If NATO protesters want to decry something that they think offends humanity, skip McCormick Place this weekend and head to Wrigley Field. If you're looking to bring attention to senseless policies, then the Cubs-Sox series is right there for you. 
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| Former Sox reliever Kevin Hickey dies at 56 Wed, 16 May 2012 16:17:00 GMT Kevin Hickey, who lived out a major league storybook dream of pitching for his hometown Chicago White Sox and later served as their batting practice pitcher, died Wednesday morning, team sources said. 
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| Irish payout to Weis keeps piling up Wed, 16 May 2012 02:58:00 GMT Former coach has received $8.7 million since firing and payments continue through 2015 While it played football in 2010, Notre Dame paid men who ran the program a total of $4,949,867 — one to coach the team and one not to. 
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| Big Ten on board for 4-team football playoff Wed, 16 May 2012 02:41:00 GMT ADs want rotating bowl sites, including Rose, to host semis beginning in 2014 Once on life support, the proposal to play semifinal playoff games on campus is now dead. 
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| Haugh: Trading Kane would be irresponsible Wed, 16 May 2012 02:13:00 GMT Hawks must get immature forward to straighten out act for good of career and team Trading Patrick Kane would represent one irresponsible act intended to clean up another and just make everything messier. 
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| Bulls' Rose faces arduous road back Wed, 16 May 2012 01:29:00 GMT But Bulls, team surgeon optimistic he can return as good as ever The last time Derrick Rose was the center of attention at a lengthy news conference in May, he was eloquently and emotionally thanking his mother as he accepted the NBA's 2011 most valuable player trophy. 
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| Cubs lose 7-6 to Cardinals in wild game Wed, 16 May 2012 00:35:00 GMT Molina beats shift for game-winning single off Dolis in 9th The Cubs clubhouse was upbeat and noisy Tuesday morning with the chance of sweeping St. Louis in a mini-series at Busch Stadium. But they came up short. 
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| Sox blow 6-run lead in 10-8 loss to Tigers Wed, 16 May 2012 00:05:00 GMT Peavy and Ohman give up 8 runs in disastrous 6th The White Sox surely have had more enjoyable airplane trips than the one they endured Tuesday night, the one following an agonizing 10-8 loss to the Tigers, the one that would be followed by another flight back home 48 hours later. 
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| Delany leaning toward 'hybrid' playoff model Tue, 15 May 2012 22:10:00 GMT Big Ten commisioner Jim Delany took no firm stance Tuesday on the four-team playoff model of preference, but after a day of meetings with conference athletic directors said he is leaning toward favoring a "hybrid model." 
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| Bulls' doctor: Rose prognosis encouraging Tue, 15 May 2012 20:30:00 GMT Three days after he performed surgery to repair the most important anterior cruciate ligament in the Bulls' franchise, team physician Brian Cole gave an optimistic assessment of Derrick Rose's future. The Bulls star is expected to be sidelined 8-to-12 months. 
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| Brandon Marshall: 'You become a target' Tue, 15 May 2012 20:12:00 GMT Brandon Marshall talked Tuesday about being a target on the field for Jay Cutler, and the new Bears wide receiver also discussed being a target for trouble off the field. 
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| Sveum comfortable making tough decisions Tue, 15 May 2012 17:10:00 GMT ST. LOUIS -- Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum isn't worried about taking heat for having his best hitter, Starlin Castro, bunt in the eighth inning of Monday night's 6-4 win over the Cardinals. 
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| Unlike Guillen, Ventura avoids Wrigley critique Tue, 15 May 2012 16:38:00 GMT Before each Cubs-White Sox series, then-Sox manager Ozzie Guillen usually would regale the media with his thoughts about Wrigley Field -- mostly insinuating it was a rat-filled dump, and guaranteed to create humor on the South Side and ire on the North Side. 
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.