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• Soccer: St. Viator's Weber leads Irish to semis
  • Women's College Cup

• Soccer: Northwestern returns to NCAA quarterfinals

• Iowa's Greene wins Tribune Silver Football award

• Chicago sports weekend on TV

• Prep scoreboard

Bears headlines

• David Haugh: Time lapse in catching heat

• Dan Pompei: High hopes sacked for Jaguars

• Terry Bannon's NFL picks

• Fantasy impact: Portis a risky fantasy pick

Bulls headlines

• Del Negro: Bulls are 'unpredictable'

• Bulls want more good play from Thomas

• RosenBlog: Bench beats Bulls starters? Bench the starters

• Bucks' bench tops Bulls

Blackhawks headlines

• Injury, hair updates for the Hawks

• Blackhawks offense returns in nick of time

• Havlat dropped to 3rd line

• Hawks facing big month

College headlines

• Why the Irish kept Weis

• 2008 Big Ten-ACC Challenge

  • Northwestern rides 20-2 run to top Florida State
  • No. 1 North Carolina beats Michigan State
  • Wake Forest pounds Indiana

• Eastern Illinois beats Tennessee State

• Teddy Greenstein: What Charlie Weis needs to do

Cubs headlines

• Cubs give Kasper 3-year extension

• Fred Mitchell: Baker wants to manage Wood

• Henry Blanco's brother killed in Venezuela

• Cubs shopping on a budget

White Sox headlines

• Vazquez glad to be away from Sox, negativity

• Sox GM thinks he traded for 'All-Star catcher'

• Beckham adjusts, tears up Arizona Fall League

• Losing Cabrera fortifies White Sox's farm system

High School headlines

• No. 1 Young going coast-to-coast

• Tribune's Athlete of the month:
  Charlie Goro

• Girls basketball: Hinsdale Central coach steps down

• Thursday's girls roundup: Bolingbrook tops Joliet
  • Weekend schedule

From the sports wire

• Patriots sign veteran linebacker Junior Seau to replace injured Adalius Thomas

• Tour champions Armstrong and Contador train together as fever pitch takes hold at Astana camp

• Audi pulls out of American Le Mans Series after dominating series for 9 years

• Kansas set to announce it's going to the Insight Bowl to play a Big Ten team

• Jets DE Shaun Ellis charged with marijuana possession, speeding and driving without insurance

• Giants' Antonio Pierce, doctor who treated Plaxico Burress to talk to NYC authorities Friday

• F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone says Honda pullout is a 'wake-up call' to overspending teams

• Honda's F1 chief executive hopeful of finding new buyer after Honda's withdrawal

• Honda pulls out of 2009 F1 competition amid economic slowdown

• Armstrong doesn't expect haters _ doping theorists and the French _ to let up with comeback