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June 2009
- Sosa Tested Positive in '03
  
  New York Times | Jun 16, 09 7:04 PM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Bad news for Sammy Sosa's Hall of Fame hopes: The Cubs slugger is among the players who tested positive for doping in 2003, the New York Times reports. The retired Sosa, sixth on the all-time homer list, has long been suspected of taking steroids but has never admitted it. The new development, courtesy of unnamed lawyers familiar with the 2003 results, is the first time he's been linked to a positive test. More »
May 2009
- Worst (Un)Retirements in Sports
  
  New York | May 21, 09 9:09 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - With Brett Favre mulling yet another unretirement, Will Leitch of New York magazine looks back on the worst unretirements in sports history. They range from cringe-worthy to incomparably cringe-worthy: Ricky Williams: How many drug tests can one man fail? Lance Armstrong: "It’s difficult to come up with a better final chapter than winning your seventh Tour after overcoming cancer and thoroughly infuriating the French by evading all their attempts to bust you as a drug cheat." More »
- Buyer Wants Belushi, Cusack, Murray In on Cubs Deal
  
  Chicago Tribune | May 19, 09 10:36 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Would-be Cubs buyer Tom Ricketts has approached a bunch of baseball-loving celebrities, including Bill Murray, Jim Belushi, and John Cusack, about going in with him on the team, the Chicago Tribune reports. Ricketts is asking each to pitch in $25 million, say sources—who add that Ricketts doesn’t need the money to close the deal with the Tribune Company. More »
April 2009
- $1.5B Yanks MLB's Most Valuable Team
  
  Forbes | Apr 23, 09 8:56 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - The New York Yankees' $1.5 billion valuation lands them solidly in the top spot in the Forbes ranking of baseball's most valuable teams. The crosstown Mets came second, trailing by almost $600 million. The Yanks, however, were one of only two teams to lose money last season, dropping $3.7 million. The Detroit Tigers lost a whopping $26.3 million. More »
- Me-Owch! Cubs' Cat-Grab Sparks Uproar
  
  Chicago Tribune | Apr 23, 09 2:19 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Cat lovers are hissing in rage after a feline intruder was hoisted out of a game by its tail at Wrigley Field, the Chicago Tribune reports. The wayward cat was lifted into the stands by a security guard after a comical chase during the fourth inning of a Cubs-Cincinnati Reds game. The treatment was labeled "poor decision-making" by an exec at the Anti-Cruelty Society of Chicago. More »
- Cubs Manager Shrugged Off Blago's Lineup Advice
  
  Chicago Tribune | Apr 17, 09 2:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Rod Blagojevich sought to extend his influence beyond politics and media during his tenure as Illinois governor, the Chicago Tribune reports, sending Cubs manager Lou Piniella lineup suggestions in 2007. “I’ve talked to him, baseball-wise,” Piniella said of a note from Blagojevich during a rough patch. “He’s a big Cubs fan. Obviously we didn’t heed his advice.” More »
- Yankees' New Stadium Takes a Bow
  
  New York Post | Apr 2, 09 3:35 PM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Players and fans checked out the new Yankee Stadium for the first time today, and they liked what they saw. "Wow! I'm in love," one fan who said he opposed the new ballpark told the New York Post. "They did a fantastic job." The $1.5 billion facility officially opens tomorrow with an exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs. See a slideshow of the new park at left. More »
March 2009
- PETA Fumes at KFC Offer of Statue to Cubs
  
  Deadspin | Mar 13, 09 4:35 PM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - The recent recovery of a statue of KFC’s Col. Sanders from a Japanese river is said to have ended a curse on a baseball team there. Which gave the company a clever idea: offer the effigy to the notably hexed Chicago Cubs, Deadspin reports. PETA strenuously objects. “If one irritated goat could cause a decades-long curse, just imagine what billions of angry chickens could do,” the animal-rights organization writes. More »
January 2009
- Family Buying Cubs for $900M
  
  Chicago Tribune | Jan 22, 09 7:55 PM CST
  
  (Newser Summary) - It looks like the Cubs are returning to family ownership, the Chicago Tribune reports. The billionaire Ricketts family is the winning bidder to buy the baseball team from Sam Zell's Tribune Co. The $900 million deal isn't sealed yet—other baseball owners must approve, for one thing—but it's expected to be complete before spring training in April. The Wrigley family owned the team for 65 years before selling to Tribune in 1981. More »
- Auction for Cubs Nears End
  
  Chicago Tribune | Jan 6, 09 12:43 PM CST
  
  (Newser Summary) - The bidding for the Cubs is nearly over. The Tribune Co. could select a winner from the three finalists within a week to 10 days, the Chicago Tribune reports, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the team is about to be sold. Tribune would still need to negotiate with the winner and could still pull the team off the market. More »
December 2008
- Cubs Brass Hope to Sell By February
  
  Chicago Tribune | Dec 6, 08 12:33 PM CST
  
  (Newser Summary) - Chicago Cubs brass expects the team to be sold by spring training, the Tribune reports. The chairman of the team, which is in the midst of a century-long title drought, says it is reviewing bids and could have a deal in place by February. Crane Kenney also shot down rumors that Sam Zell's Tribune Company would hold onto to a big part of the team. “Any interest would be a small interest,” he said. More »
- Maddux Will Hang 'Em Up: 'I'm Getting Too Old'
  
  Las Vegas Sun | Dec 5, 08 6:48 PM CST
  
  (Newser Summary) - Four-time Cy Young winner Greg Maddux confirmed today that his 355th win was his last, the Las Vegas Sun reports. “I’m 42, and I have two kids and a wife,” said the eight-time all-star, who finished his 23-year career with a stint on the Los Angeles Dodgers. "I’m getting too old, and my kids are getting too old. It’s a combination of those two.” He plans to retire publicly in Las Vegas on Monday. More »
November 2008
- Cubs' Piniella, Rays' Maddon Voted Top Managers
  
  MLB.com | Nov 12, 08 3:12 PM CST
  
  (Newser Summary) - Lou Piniella and his Tampa Bay successor, Joe Maddon, have been voted baseball’s managers of the year, MLB.com reports. Maddon’s first-ever recognition is no surprise after he led the Rays to their first-ever winning season and the American League pennant. Chicago’s Piniella won the honor—his third, after two with the Seattle Mariners—after leading the Cubs to a National League-best 97 wins. More »
- Cubs' Soto, Rays' Longoria Named Top Rookies
  
  Chicago Tribune | Nov 10, 08 2:04 PM CST
  
  (Newser Summary) - Chicago Cubs catcher Geovany Soto and Tampa Bay third baseman Evan Longoria were named the rookies of the year today in the National and American leagues, respectively. Soto, 25, was voted an All-Star Game starter and finished the season with a .285 batting average, 23 home runs, and 86 RBI, the Tribune reports. He easily beat out Cincinnati first baseman Joey Votto. More »
October 2008
- Dodgers Make It 2-0
  
  Chicago Tribune | Oct 3, 08 5:18 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - A Cubs defensive collapse in the 5-run second inning helped the Dodgers to a 10-3 win in Game 2 of their NL series, the Chicago Tribune reports. Sloppy infielding behind Carlo Zambrano tied the division series record for errors. The Cubs—who have never won a playoff game west of Chicago—now head to Los Angeles two games down. More »
- Sox, Dodgers, Phillies Win Openers
  
  MLB.com | Oct 2, 08 5:24 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Jason Bay and Manny Ramirez both proved why they’d been acquired last night. Bay hit a two-run shot to give the Red Sox a lead they never relinquished, sending Anaheim to a 4-1 defeat, while the man he was traded for hit a solo shot in the Dodgers' 7-2 win over the Cubs. But the Dodgers’ real hero was James Loney, who hit a grand slam in the fifth to erase a 2-run Cubs lead. More »
August 2008
- 104-Year-Old Cubs Fan Makes His Pitch
  
  Chicago Sun-Times | Aug 11, 08 6:03 PM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Diehard Cubs fan Leo Hildebrand is sticking diligently to his daily workout regimen, hoping he’ll be tapped to throw out the first pitch of a playoff game for his beloved team. The major difference between him and the legion of other fans who’d like to do the same, the Chicago Sun-Times reports, is that Hildebrand is 104 years old. More »
July 2008
- Spoiler Cubs Fan Offered $25K for Autograph
  
  Orlando Sentinel | Jul 23, 08 4:54 PM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Will Steve Bartman—the fan blamed for costing the long-suffering Chicago Cubs a trip to the 2003 World Series—come out of hiding for $25,000? A pair of sports memorabilia outfits are offering the bounty, the Orlando Sentinel reports, if Bartman shows up at a July 31 convention in suburban Chicago and autographs a single copy of a photo showing him reaching for a key foul ball. More »
- Die-Hard Cubs Fans to Get Final Waiting Place
  
  Associated Press | Jul 12, 08 11:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - When the last living Cubs fan to have seen his team win the World Series passed away in April at age 106, fans willing to wait a lifetime realized a lifetime may not be long enough. One is now preparing the field of their dreams in a Chicago cemetery, the AP reports, where 280 "eternal skyboxes" will be available in a replica of Wrigley Field's center wall. More »
- 7 Slump Busters for the Cubs
  
  Chicago Tribune | Jul 8, 08 12:09 PM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Despite a National League-best 53-36 record, all is not well in Wrigleyville, Paul Sullivan writes in the Chicago Tribune . The Cubs need these seven guys to step up and insure that Sweet Lou’s “100-year thing” doesn’t become a 101-year thing: Sean Marshall: Lefty pitcher needs to keep up his current quality to help the team, and stay on it. More »