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"DH" could return, rebooted with a slightly younger cast.
Twenty years ago in Detroit, I told fellow Tiger Stadium Fan Club member Tom Derry that I felt sad that I had never seen a game at Comiskey Park, longtime home of the Chicago White Sox, before they tore it down.
The feet are the first thing that hit the ground and without balanced feet a player's mechanics can be affected.
The justices flatly rejected prosecutors' arguments that Stanley Wrice's conviction should stand even if he had been tortured by two of Jon Burge's cops. The language was a ringing victory for all police torture victims.
Larry threw out the first pitch for the Chicago Cubs big game against the St. Louis Cardinals in the sold out crowd before Casey King pitched a fast ball as the bleachers shouted "LAR-RY LAR-RY!"
In addition to the San Diego Padres, the New York Mets are one of two teams in Major League Baseball to have never thrown a no-hitter. They have certainly come close.
Chicago sports fans are living in the worst of times. The White Sox are underachieving while the Cubs are historically bad. Now there is a new iPhone app to quantify our anguish.
Didn't we elect a transformative, Democratic president? Don't we still have the Senate? I can't watch anymore. Twenty-four hour news giving us political sausage making, each compromise more non-sensical, gruesome and depressing than the last.
In Catching Hell, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney explores the psychology of die-hard sports fans and scapegoating through the lens of two infamous...
By putting himself on the line Zambrano shows that he still cares about what happens to the Cubs. Judging by recent performance, that's more than can be said for many of his teammates.
Screaming, "We're #1" after your team scores a run or turns a crisp double play in the bottom of the first feels downright foolish. Come to think of it, it feels pretty ridiculous any time during a baseball game.
When Albert Pujols hugged Chicago Cubs General Manager Jim Hendry during batting practice a couple of days ago, the encounter was quickly dubbed, "the hug heard around the world."
Can catching a ball for your favorite baseball team, in front of millions of fans, literally ruin your life? This very scenario is the subject of Alex Gibney's brilliant new documentary, Catching Hell.
Happy Birthday, Warren Beatty! You get to keep the rights to Dick Tracy. The Tribune Company lost a few days ago, so it was an early birthday gift.
If Mets fans were hoping that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban would buy into the Mets, they can forget it. Cuban told Jimmy Kimmel the other night that he won't be an investor.
There are villains in sports, but they're not the people who unintentionally cost their team an important game.
