Camp about 'having a good time'
In between small bites of hot dogs and hamburgers, a group of kids revealed the best part of the Chris Brown Football Camp last weekend at Calvary Church in Naperville.

Woodworker
The current issue of Prep Baseball Report magazine has arrived, and sure enough, there's recent Joliet Catholic Academy graduate John Ruettiger named a first team all-stater.

EXTRA POINTS

Kyle Busch shines underJoliet lights
Kyle Busch started the second half of the NASCAR season the same way he ended the first -- standing on the hood of his car, pumping his fists, and then basking in the glow of a celebration in Victory Lane at Chicagoland Speedway Friday night.

Rain pours on NASCAR at Chicagoland
Soon after heavy rains sent everyone scurrying for cover, talk turned to the trickle-down effect. With Tony Stewart set to depart one NASCAR Sprint Cup series team and become a part-owner and driver for another, the race to fill his seat in the No. 20 car already has begun, and one name keeps popping up.

Stewart unveils new future at Chicagoland Speedway
Tony Stewart, one of NASCAR's most reputable drivers for the past decade, on Thursday officially announced an ownership deal with one of NASCAR's fledgling operations. The announcement that Stewart will launch a new operation called Stewart-Haas Racing has been rumored in the garage for weeks.

The King of NASCAR coming to Chicagoland
Richard Petty, known to NASCAR fans as simply "The King", will be at the center of attention this weekend as the world's greatest stock car racers battle it out in Saturday night's LifeLock.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway.

The pro perspective
Seventeen kids sit at their picnic tables underneath a pavilion set up outside the Indian Boundary YMCA in Downers Grove.

Bolingbrook's new jewel
Bolingbrook boys basketball coach Rob Brost was on his way back home to Iowa last week when we made connections.

College golfers sharpen games at local tour
As Tom O'Connor sat behind the fourth tee box, he peered out from underneath the cover on his golf cart and saw his own past and present come into focus.

UPDATE: Teen may have died from heart defect
JOLIET – A heart condition may have caused the death of a high school basketball player. Will County Coroner Pat O’Neil said Tuesday an autopsy performed on Zamarri Doby, 16, “noted a heart defect.”

USF golf coach preps them for the pros
As Tom O'Connor saw his own past and present come into focus. O'Connor, a teaching pro and the women's golf coach at the University of St. Francis, runs the tour to provide playing opportunities for young men and women in college golf.