He won an Emmy for a special report on real estate in Chicagoland and various other awards for his reporting on the AIDS epidemic in Africa and Hurricane Katrina.
The Tribune article quotes the IHSA as saying it already has a policy in place for these kinds of situations, and have already allowed Chicagoland Jewish to shift a playoff game from Friday night to a post-Sabbath Saturday night.
Personally, I think the Chicago Tribune has worked hard to reinvent itself as a modern newspaper serving Chicagoland and I hope I played a small role in helping them achieve what they have done in a short period of time.