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Tim O'Malley

Tim O’Malley

January 6, 2011

Mike Korcek

By Jim Killam | January 6, 2011

To understand Mike Korcek, you really need to know about Jim Tillman. Tillman played center for the Loyola basketball team in the mid-1960s. At 6-foot-5 -- small for a center even by 1960s standards -- he was a ferocious rebounder and once even blocked...

Hallie Hamilton

Hallie Hamilton

January 6, 2011
Don Grubb

Don Grubb

By Jim Killam | January 6, 2011
Lonny Cain

Lonny Cain

January 6, 2011
Bud Nangle

Bud Nangle

By Mark McGowan ’92 | January 6, 2011

Gene Mustain

By Jim Killam | January 6, 2011

Take every media image of college students in the late 1960s, and think "opposite." That was Gene Mustain as the Northern Star sports editor. Few of Gene's friends back then would have predicted he'd become one of the nation's best investigative reporters...

Tom McNamee

Tom McNamee

By Jim Killam | January 6, 2011
Jerry Huston

Jerry Huston

By Jim Killam | January 6, 2011
Joe Distelheim

Joe Distelheim

By Jim Killam | January 6, 2011
Cary Spivak

Cary Spivak

By Jim Killam | January 6, 2011

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