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Home Field Disadvantage

Ted Goeglein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Wrigley Field, Chicago Cubs, Ricketts Family, World Series, Cubs, Tribune Company, Derek Jeter, New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins, Sports, Wrigleyville, The Friendly Confines, Cubs Sale, Harry Caray, Chicago News
Ted Goeglein

The Cubs' old pile of bricks stinks of inebriated resignation. It's time for Wrigley Field to be gutted of the past and rebuilt for the future.

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Walking with Lions: The Myth of Conservation

Panthera | Posted 09.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Walking With Lions, South Africa, Conservation, Hunting, Lions, Cubs, Lion Conservation, Africa, Wildlife, Green News
Panthera

The 'lion encounter' industry is only that -- an industry. Churning out cubs for photo opportunities is a great revenue earner but none of those cubs are set free.

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Asian Lioness And Her Cubs Enjoy the London Zoo (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Baby Lions, Lioness, London Zoo, Cubs, Green, Abi the Lion, Baby Animals, Animals, Cute Animals, Zoo Animals, Slidepoll, Green News

Abi, a ten-year-old Asian lioness, and her two ten-week-old cubs enjoyed their den at the London Zoo. According to the London Zoo, there are only 300 ...

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White Sox Top Cubs 4-1 On Strength Of Danks Pitching

AP | RICK GANO | Posted 07.18.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — John Danks pitched seven shutout innings, Alexei Ramirez homered in the first and the White Sox played some NL-style baseball Wednesda...

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Chicago Cubs Buyer Ricketts Offering Stakes In The Team To Private Investors

Crain's Chicago Business | Ann Saphir | Posted 05.21.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sports, Cubs, Cubs Sale Financing, Cubs Sale, Cubs Investors, Tom Ricketts, Chicago Sports, Chicago News

Tom Ricketts is offering private investors a stake in the Chicago Cubs as he works to finance a $900-million acquisition of the team by his family. C...

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Cubs Shutout Rockies To Win Chilly Home Opener 4-0

AP | RICK GANO | Posted 05.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sports, Cubs, Chicago Cubs, Cubs Rockies, Cubs Score, Ted Lilly, Cubs Opening Day, Cubs Home Opener, Wrigley Field Opener, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Ted Lilly held Colorado hitless for 6 2-3 innings on a raw day at Wrigley Field and the Chicago Cubs won their home opener Monday by h...

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New Ballpark Food: White Sox Getting A Wine Bar

Chicago Tribune | Phil Vettel | Posted 05.03.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Wrigley Field, Sports, The Cell Food, White Sox Wine, Baseball, Ballpark Food, Wrigley Food, Cubs, White Sox, Us Cellular Field, Food, Chicago News

And wine by the glass at the Cell? Believe it; a wine bar (actually a free-standing cart) on the lower level, along the first-base line, will dispense...

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Nate Silver Predicts The Cubs And White Sox 2009 Records And Stats

Chicago Magazine | Nate Silver | Posted 04.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cubs 2009 Record, Sports, Nate Silver, Geovany Soto, Alexei Ramirez, Cubs, White Sox, Ryan Dempster, White Sox 2009 Record, Carlos Quentin, Chicago News

Our statistical wunderkind predicts the booms and busts of the 2009 Cubs and White Sox....

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Cubs Chairman Hopes For 50 Night Games At Wrigley

Chicago Tribune | James Janega | Posted 04.25.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Crane Kenney, Wrigleyville, Sports, Cubs Night Games, Cubs, Cubs Schedule, Wrigley Night Games, Chicago News

The Chicago Cubs played down reports Tuesday night that team officials hope to hold as many as 50 night games a season, an issue that arose as the tea...

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Cubs Retiring Maddux And Jenkins' Number 31

AP | Posted 04.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Greg Maddux, Sports, Ferguson Jenkins, Cubs, Cubs Retired Jerseys, Cubs Retired Numbers, Ryne Sandberg, Chicago News

MESA, Ariz. — The Chicago Cubs will retire the No. 31 worn by both Ferguson Jenkins and Greg Maddux. They two star right-handed pitchers will b...

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Essie Banks, Mother Of Baseball Legend Ernie Banks, Dies At 97

AP | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Ernie Banks Mother Dies, Essie Banks, Sports, Ernie Banks, Cubs, Ernie Banks Mother, Essie Banks Dies, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Essie Banks, the mother of baseball Hall of Famer Ernie Banks, is dead at age 97. Mrs. Banks died Monday of complications from a stro...

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Cubs Won't Be Sold By Opening Day: Bud Selig

Chicago Tribune | Dave van Dyck | Posted 04.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sports, Ricketts Family, Cubs, Bud Selig, Ricketts Cubs, Cubs Sale, Cubs Opening Day, Chicago News

The sale of the Cubs to the Ricketts family may drag on past Opening Day, according to Commissioner Bud Selig....

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13 Questions For Which I Expect No Answers

Ted Goeglein | Posted 04.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cubs, Chicago Public Radio, Daley Nepotism, Rod Blagojevich, Chicago Property Taxes, Mayor Daley, President Obama, Cubs World Series, Roland Burris, Chicago News
Ted Goeglein

If the Cubs win the World Series this year, thus halting and reversing the space-time continuum, do we have to pay Mayor Daley's latest property tax increase?

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Prisoner of Cubs

Ted Goeglein | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Cubs, Smoking, Chicago Police, Cubs Fans, Cubs, Sports, Chicago News
Ted Goeglein

Like smoking, being a Cubs fan means committing oneself to something that starts out hot, burns out at the midpoint, and turns to ashes at the end.

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Cubs To Close Tribune Era Without World Series

Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 02.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cubs Sale, Cubs, Sports, Tribune Company, Cubs World Series, Wrigley Lights, Wrigley Field Night Games, Tribune Cubs, Chicago News

It looks as if the Tribune era of Cubs ownership will end without a World Series championship, just as the Wrigley family reign ended in failure in 19...

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Rickets Family To Buy Cubs And Wrigley Field For $900M

AP | ANDREW SELIGMAN | Posted 02.22.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — A billionaire family of Chicago Cubs fans _ including one who first met his wife in the bleachers at Wrigley Field _ is set to purchas...

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Cubs Zero In On New Owner

Chicago Tribune | Michael Oneal and Ameet Sachdev | Posted 02.22.2009 | Chicago

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Tribune Co. executives have chosen a favorite among three bids for the Chicago Cubs and have given that recommendation to the unsecured creditors comm...

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Priest: Cubs Chairman Threw Me Under The Bus Over Playoff Loss

Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 02.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Crane Kenney, Cubs, Rev. James Greanias, Billy Goat Curse, Rev Greanias Cubs Curse, Cubs Dugout Priest, Cubs Curse, Chicago News

Rev. James L. Greanias, the Greek Orthodox priest brought in to Wrigley Field to remove a curse before Game 1 of last year's playoffs, has accused Cub...

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Wrigley Field Mulling Seat Licenses, Flat Screens

Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 02.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sports, Cubs, Wrigley Jumbotron, Wrigley Field, Cubs Season Tickets, Wrigley Field Seat Licenses, Sammy Sosa, Wrigley Tv Monitors, Chicago News

If the conversation with management were any indication, Cubs fans want functioning TV monitors to watch replays from the grandstands, wider seats in ...

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Winter Classic Kicks Off New Year: Will it be Any Better?

Jon Greenberg | Posted 02.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cubs, Wrigley Field, NHL Winter Classic, White Sox, Derrick Rose, Bartolo Colon, Bulls, Blackhawks, Chicago Bears, Barack Obama, Jay Mariotti, Sports, Obama Basketball, Chicago Sports, Chicago News
Jon Greenberg

What do Chicago sports fans have to look forward to in 2009, aside from Hawk Harrelson and bad singing at Wrigley?

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Chicago Cubs Bidding Goes Past Deadline

Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 02.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Cubs Bidding, Cubs, Tribune Company, Tribune Cubs, Cubs Bids, Cubs Sale, Wrigley Field Sale, Chicago News

The never-ending auction hasn't ended. Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Cubs as well as the Chicago Tribune, was pushing prospective buyers to submi...

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The Final Chicago Cubs Bidders: Tom Ricketts, Marc Utay, Hersch Klaff

Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 02.09.2009 | Chicago

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The sale of the Chicago Cubs has come down to three finalists, nearly two years after the team's owner, Tribune Co., put the storied franchise and Wri...

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Marc Utay: Potential Cubs Owner A New Trier Graduate

Crain's Chicago Business | Ed Sherman | Posted 02.07.2009 | Chicago

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The reports [about the Cubs sale] listed Marc Utay as one of three finalists. Once again, he was referred to as a "New York private-equity investor." ...

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Cubs Offering Pre-Sale Tickets For Top Games, For A Fee

Crain's Chicago Business | Ed Sherman | Posted 01.22.2009 | Chicago

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The Cubs have found another way to tap into the insatiable demand to be part of everything at Clark and Addison. The new revenue stream is a repackag...

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Ron Santo Denied Baseball Hall Of Fame Entrance

AP | BEN WALKER | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Ron Santo Hall of Fame Vote, Cubs, Ron Santo Hall of Fame, Baseball Hall of Fame, Sports, Hall of Fame Vote, Ronm Santo Veterans Committee, Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot, Ron Santo, Veterans Committee Vote, Rickey Henderson, Chicago News

NEW YORK — Joe Gordon joined former teammates Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig and Bob Feller in the Hall of Fame. For the likes of Joe Torre, Jim Kaat ...

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