One of my pet peeves about the Chicago Tribune sports section, and Chicago sports media in general, is that they treat the University of Notre Dame like it's the University of Chicago at South Bend. I understand that the school has a large fan base here, but I have always thought that it is a bit silly for the Irish to get better coverage than the University of Illinois. But, they do.
South Bend, by the way, is halfway to Ohio from Chicago. Milwaukee is closer to downtown Chicago than South Bend.
The most recent (and blatant) example of the geographic confusion is in the agate type on the Olympics page. There, you'll find a list of three dozen athletes with Illinois connections. There are people who grew up in Illinois, went to college in Illinois, or play professionally here. They might not even represent the US in the games, like Andres Nocioni of the Bulls, who plays for Argentina, but they all have a connection to the state, except one.
Near the bottom of the list is women's sabre gold medalist Mariel Zagunis. Her "Illinois" connection - she attended Notre Dame.
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At least Chicago is a lot closer to South Bend than Northeast PA. This area is infected with domers and the local rags treat ND on par with PSU and sometimes even more. Every Sunday we get several pages of PSU and only a brief edited pargraph taken from the AP on 99% of other games, except ND. ND gets headlines, photos and almost as much space as PSU.
Last week I went to a minor league (Triple A) game and lost count at around 20 people with ND gear. Fortunately, I was in my UM shirt and with a combined score of 85-21 over ND the last 2 years, they were rather humble.
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