Home Field Disadvantage
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.
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.
Panthera | Posted 09.30.2009 | Green
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.
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green
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 ...
AP | RICK GANO | Posted 07.18.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — John Danks pitched seven shutout innings, Alexei Ramirez homered in the first and the White Sox played some NL-style baseball Wednesda...
Crain's Chicago Business | Ann Saphir | Posted 05.21.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | RICK GANO | Posted 05.14.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Tribune | Phil Vettel | Posted 05.03.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Magazine | Nate Silver | Posted 04.26.2009 | Chicago
Our statistical wunderkind predicts the booms and busts of the 2009 Cubs and White Sox....
Chicago Tribune | James Janega | Posted 04.25.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | Posted 04.18.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Tribune | Dave van Dyck | Posted 04.07.2009 | Chicago
The sale of the Cubs to the Ricketts family may drag on past Opening Day, according to Commissioner Bud Selig....
Ted Goeglein | Posted 04.04.2009 | Chicago
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?
Ted Goeglein | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago
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.
Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 02.23.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | ANDREW SELIGMAN | Posted 02.22.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Tribune | Michael Oneal and Ameet Sachdev | Posted 02.22.2009 | Chicago
Tribune Co. executives have chosen a favorite among three bids for the Chicago Cubs and have given that recommendation to the unsecured creditors comm...
Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 02.20.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Tribune | Paul Sullivan | Posted 02.19.2009 | Chicago
If the conversation with management were any indication, Cubs fans want functioning TV monitors to watch replays from the grandstands, wider seats in ...
Jon Greenberg | Posted 02.16.2009 | Chicago
What do Chicago sports fans have to look forward to in 2009, aside from Hawk Harrelson and bad singing at Wrigley?
Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 02.13.2009 | Chicago
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...
Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 02.09.2009 | Chicago
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...
Crain's Chicago Business | Ed Sherman | Posted 02.07.2009 | Chicago
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." ...
Crain's Chicago Business | Ed Sherman | Posted 01.22.2009 | Chicago
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...
AP | BEN WALKER | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago
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 ...
Ted Goeglein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago