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Garza feeling better, doesn't think he'll need trip to DL
ST. LOUIS — Matt Garza felt much better Sunday morning after suffering from triceps cramping and being forced to leave Saturday's game. Garza said it was unrelated to the bone contusion injury he had near his elbow that sidelined him in May and...
Tags: Jeff Beliveau, Dale Sveum, Chicago Cubs, Casey Coleman, Chris Volstad
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Cubs don't play like superheroes, but dress the part
ST. LOUIS — To honor Cubs great Ron Santo on his Hall of Fame induction day, manager Dale Sveum asked his position players to click their heels as they crossed the foul line to take their spots Sunday. "It was downhill after that," Sveum said....
Tags: Matt Holliday, Scott Eyre, Reed Johnson, Busch Stadium, Matt Garza
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Dear Cubs fans, don't be suckers
The Cubs have won 12 of their last 16 games. Their starters have an ERA of 1.13 in their last five. The staff itself averaged an earned run a game in the weekend sweep of Arizona. They are playing the kind of baseball we haven’t seen all season...
Tags: Bryan LaHair, Chicago Cubs, Theo Epstein, Carlos Marmol, Reed Johnson
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Cubs staying upbeat despite first-half record
ATLANTA — After finishing the first half of their schedule with a 31-50 record following Wednesday's 5-1 victory over the Braves, the Cubs look forward to making improvements over the final 81 games. So what are their goals for the second half?...
Tags: Randall Delgado, Starlin Castro, Michael Bourn, Anthony Rizzo, Chicago Tribune
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Tribune All-City team
Contact a Hollywood agent, quick. It's time for someone to do the miniseries "Trading Sori: Inside the Cubs' Quest for the Holy Grail.'' The conversations about the Alfonso Soriano situation that have taken place recently and will take place for who...
Tags: Thomas Ricketts, Welington Castillo, Geovany Soto, Reed Johnson, Ryan Dempster
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Sveum: Big talk and double-talk
Did somebody get to Dale Sveum? Specifically, did somebody in Cubs management tell the manager to stand down after his comments about threatening to bench Starlin Castro because of exasperating mental mistakes in San Francisco? Reading comments out of...
Tags: Dale Sveum, Starlin Castro, Theo Epstein, Robin Yount, Sports
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Dempster can't buy a break
PITTSBURGH — It was five years ago this week that an exasperated Lou Piniella announced he had seen enough of his underachieving Cubs' lineup. "Maybe we'll draw the darn thing out of a hat," the Cubs' manager fumed after a four-game losing streak...
Tags: Pittsburgh Pirates, Jared Hughes, David DeJesus, American League, Ryan Dempster
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Is it time for a new Ricketts to run the Cubs?
Tom Ricketts needs to do something. Even in hiding from everyone except one reporter he believed he could use, Ricketts needs to order something done.
A trade. Yeah, that’s it. Ricketts needs to trade someone. Maybe he’ll trade Matt Garza...Tags: Thomas Ricketts, Carlos Zambrano, Rahm Emanuel, Matt Garza, Baseball
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Readers Q&A: Paul Sullivan's Cubs mailbag
Now that the Cubs have been mathematically eliminated from 2012 and 2013 postseason contention, how bare do you see Theo Epstein stripping the Cubs? Is he going to trade everything of value (Matt Garza, Geovany Soto), pay large chunks of salary (Alfonso...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Geovany Soto, Ryan Dempster, Matt Garza, Baseball
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Short of finding Patrick Sharp, here's how Hawks fans can help
The Blackhawks had all kinds of airplane trouble trying to get back to Chicago on Sunday after Game 5 in Arizona.
They had won the night before to extend their first-round series against the Phoenix Coyotes. They couldn’t wait to get home to extend...Tags: Mikkel Boedker, Ice Hockey, Mike Smith (ice hockey), Air Transportation Delays, Google Inc.
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Power rankings: No. 10 Red Sox
Bobby Valentine has managed in the World Series and won a championship in Japan but he never has taken a major league team to a division title in 15 seasons as a manager. It's not likely to happen this year either.
A year after widespread indifference...Tags: Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Oakland Athletics, Carl Crawford, Baseball, Jacoby Ellsbury
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Power rankings: No. 26 Cubs
En route to 91 losses last season and a radical regime change, the Cubs were outscored by 102 runs. As it happens, half of those can be put down to talent and half of them to playing the game well.
Bill James tracks manufactured runs, both created and...Tags: Elvis Andrus, Thomas Ricketts, Andy Sonnanstine, David DeJesus, Ryan Dempster
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