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Cubs Will Be Sold By Spring Training: Team Chairman

AP | Posted 01.06.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — The chairman of the Chicago Cubs said Friday he expects the baseball franchise to be sold by spring training. Chairman Crane Kenney t...

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Three Prospective Cubs Buyers Submit New Bids

Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 01.01.2009 | Chicago

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At least three prospective buyers have submitted a new round of bids to Tribune Co. for the Chicago Cubs, one of professional sports' trophy franchis...

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Cubs To Play Exhibitions At New Yankee Stadium

AP | Posted 12.19.2008 | Chicago

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The Chicago Cubs will play the first exhibition games at the new Yankee Stadium, meeting New York on Friday night April 3 and again the following afte...

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Lou Piniella Named Manager Of The Year

AP | MIKE FITZPATRICK | Posted 12.13.2008 | Chicago

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NEW YORK — Joe Maddon had a good reason for interrupting his honeymoon. About an hour after he landed in Rome, the newly married Maddon easily w...

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Cuban Out Of Cubs Bidding, Tribune May Keep Half Of Team: Reports

Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago

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"[S]ources close to commissioner Bud Selig sounded an alarm this week during the annual general managers meetings: Forget about Mark Cuban buying the...

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Cubs To Christen Yankee Stadium?

AP | Posted 11.22.2008 | Chicago

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The Chicago Cubs might play the unofficial opener at the new Yankee Stadium. The Cubs and Yankees are talking about playing an exhibition game or gam...

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Cubs Sign Hendry To Four-Year Extension

AP | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — General manager Jim Hendry and the Chicago Cubs agreed Monday to a four-year contract extension through the 2012 season, a deal that w...

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Chicago Sports Teams Lobbying Against Tax Increase

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.17.2008 | Chicago

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Chicago sports moguls are lobbying to block a City Hall squeeze play that might hurt their ability to compete for players. Mayor Daley want to raise ...

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Cubs Sale Terms May Be Changing

Chicago Tribune | Ameet Sachdev | Posted 11.16.2008 | Chicago

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Tribune Co. is considering retaining a larger ownership stake in the Chicago Cubs, said sources involved in the deal, as the company explores options...

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Chicago Dreams

Bill Marovitz | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago

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Bill Marovitz

October was set up to be a crazy, zany month with fans preoccupied with our national pastime. Now, we can all get back to things of lesser significance, like the presidential election and the economy.

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The Bartman Anniversary

Posted 11.14.2008 | Chicago

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Tuesday marks the five-year anniversary of the Steve Bartman incident. Chicago Sun-Times sports editor and blogger Roman Modrowski says enoguh time ha...

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Former Cubs Pitcher Kevin Foster Dies

AP | Posted 11.14.2008 | Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) -- Kevin Foster, who broke into the major leagues as an infielder and later converted to a pitcher, has died of cancer at age 39. His br...

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Cubs Sale Hurt By Economy: Cuban

Posted 11.10.2008 | Chicago

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The economic tumult shaking the country will affect the sale of the Chicago Cubs, prospective buyer Mark Cuban said: "Yeah, it's going to affect th...

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Trade Carlos Zambrano

Joe Aiello | Posted 11.09.2008 | Chicago

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Joe Aiello

It's time to move Zambrano before he becomes an all too familiar problem for Cubs fans. We've had our share of arm injuries to franchise pitchers, and I'm not in the mood for another.

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Cubs Lose, Cubs Lose, Cubs Lose!

Monroe Anderson | Posted 11.06.2008 | Chicago

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Monroe Anderson

Although I've lived less than two miles from Wrigley Field for more than 30 years, I've never been much of a Cubs fan for three reasons.

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The Audacity of Nope

Brad Spirrison | Posted 11.06.2008 | Chicago

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Brad Spirrison

It got late early and the Cubs just gave us more of the same. In what was thought to be a change postseason for Major League Baseball, the North Side nihilists ended up giving hope the finger. The curse will not be reversed.

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A Pirates' Fan's Lament: I Feel Your Pain (Kind Of)

Jon Greenberg | Posted 11.06.2008 | Chicago

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Jon Greenberg

The economy's in the toilet, your 401(k) is worth as much as Neifi Perez's autograph, and the White Sox are still playing while the Cubs are scheduling tee times in Scottsdale.

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Dodgers Sweep The Cubs

AP | JOHN NADEL | Posted 11.05.2008 | Chicago

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LOS ANGELES — It's a century and counting for the Chicago Cubs. Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers shoved Chicago into another long winte...

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Bill Murray's Cubs Advice

Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.03.2008 | Chicago

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Life-long Cubs fan Bill Murray offered advice to the beleaguered ballclub in an interview with the Tribune: "I think they're going to put more left-...

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Cubs Lose Game Two, On The Brink Of Elimination

AP | RICK GANO | Posted 11.02.2008 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers look ready to run the shaky Chicago Cubs out of the playoffs early and extend their championship drought...

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Media-Tations on Chicago Baseball Managers

Jon Greenberg | Posted 11.02.2008 | Chicago

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Jon Greenberg

Chicago baseball is in some kind of golden age. You know this. It's been 102 years since both teams made the post-season. Enjoy it while you can.

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Slim to None? Cubs Blow First Game

Jon Greenberg | Posted 11.01.2008 | Chicago

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Jon Greenberg

This team has been so good all year, and the rest of the National League so average, it seemed predestined that in the 100th anniversary of the Cubs' last World Series title, they would win again and exorcise the old demons that have haunted this club and its fans for so long. This was a new team, you were told, a new beginning. So why does it feel the same?

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It's a New Age for Zambrano, Cubs

Jon Greenberg | Posted 11.01.2008 | Chicago

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Jon Greenberg

Carlos Zambrano always seems to invite some kind of controversy, or at the very least, a dose of whimsy.

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Cubs-Dodgers: Live-Pitch-By-Pitch

mlb.com | Posted 11.01.2008 | Chicago

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Mark DeRosa was deemed healthy enough to start for the Cubs in Game 1 of their National League Division series on Wednesday, while manager Lou Piniell...

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What's Really Important

Bill Marovitz | Posted 11.01.2008 | Chicago

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Bill Marovitz

For the next month, all of our worldly concerns will take a back seat to ... baseball. For the first time in over 100 years, both Chicago baseball teams are in the playoffs.

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