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• Obama delivers taped address to IOC members

• Notre Dame still looking to put up a big win
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• Teddy Greenstein: Paterno predicts victory

• Southern Illinois falls to UCLA

• Northwestern at Brown

• Loyola at Western Michigan

• MLS Cup finalists flip their roles

• Terry Bannon's NFL picks

• Prep scoreboard

• Chicago sports weekend on TV

Bears headlines

• David Haugh: Shoop understands Babich's heat

• Pick 'em: Bears-Rams
  • Picks from the Internet

• Seeking a spark, Bears to sub Manning for Hester

• Briggs: Big money hasn't changed attitude, work ethic

Bulls headlines

• Big lineups tough on Bulls

• Full-Court Press: Late Bulls update

• With 2 deals, Knicks set themselves up for 2010

• Reader Q&A: K.C. Johnson's Bulls mailbag

Blackhawks headlines

• Bad penalties carrying extra bench time

• RosenBlog: Nylander to Hawks? Just. Say. No.

• Blackhawks shoot down Stars

• OUT LOUD: Hawks president John McDonough

College headlines

• Illinois beats Vanderbilt on the road

• Teddy Greenstein: No clear favorite for Silver Football

• Irish not talking history
  • Friday's matchup

• Notre Dame stops fans' efforts to sway recruit

Cubs headlines

• Piniella: Cubs were prepared

• Piniella has class Video

• Dempster signs 4-year contract with Cubs

• Hardball: Is Teahen the answer to RF vacancy?

White Sox headlines

• Phil Rogers: Cuban pipeline continues for Sox

• Sox part of a series of Glendale sports dominoes

• Sox to sign 19-year-old Cuban star Viciedo

• Mariners tab A's coach over Cora

High School headlines

• Class 7A: Geneva 25, Crystal Lake South 21

• Class 7A: Game could be a blur

• Friday's girls hoops roundup: Record night for Elmwood Park's Tinajero

• Sako's playoff picks

From the sports wire

• Christmas, Temple too much for Lafayette as Owls win 71-55

• AJ Price returns to pace No. 2 Connecticut to a 89-81 win over La Salle

• Panthers LB Jon Beason fined $5,000 for facemask that wasn't called vs. Lions

• Vasquez scores 26, Maryland survives scare to beat Vermont in overtime 89-74

• Witness told feds Michael Vick put family pets in with pit bulls

• Swansey helps Georgia's second half surge in a 55-47 win against Presbyterian

• South Carolina State tops Carver Bible 112-77 for first 3-0 start in 16 years

• No. 13 Memphis pulls away from Seton Hall 84-70

• Landesberg's 22 points helps Virginia edge Radford 68-66.