‘Sports’ Archives
Football Returns To Wrigley Field
Wrigley Field to host college football: MILWAUKEE -- Are you ready for some football at Wrigley Field? The Cubs and Northwestern University announced Friday the Wildcats will play host to Illinois on Nov. 20 in a Big Ten football game. It's the first college football game at Wrigley since 1938, when DePaul played home games at the [...]
Happy Opening Day
They'd have to "pass over the money without even thinking about it" to be willing to pay $20 per person to see a baseball field in the middle of an Iowa cornfield... just sayin' Anyway, Happy Opening Day. Here's hoping that 102 is the Cubs lucky number!
Cubbie Occurance
The Cubs got pretty far into spring training without one of the patented head-scratcher injuries. Wednesday Derrek Lee hurt has back when his chair collapsed. Unlike most Cubbie Occurances tough, Lee is expected to be back in just a couple of days. The Tribune has a pretty comprehensive list of the strangest injuries the Cubs have experienced [...]
StubHub: Foolishly Optimistic
There comes a time when you have to give up on your dreams of your favorite sports team making the playoffs... like, when the season is over for example. Ticket site StubHub hasn't quite gotten that memo on the Cubs and White Sox though: The company sent an e-mail Monday offering tickets for Cubs and Sox playoff games. "Be there alongside [...]
Leave Jim Hendry Alone?
Rick Morrissey with the Tribune says that Cubs fans need to give Jim Hendry a break and look at his whole body of work instead of just the less than stellar results in 2009: The consensus seems to be that Hendry might want to consider a new line of work and that porta-potty cleaner matches his skill set. To take that tack means two things: A) [...]
Carlos Zambrano Circus Continues
Considering the fact that last year Carlos Zambrano predicted that he would win the Cy Young award, you'd think that he would be hungry to get to 300 wins after watching all of the press that Randy Johnson is getting... you'd be wrong. Zambrano has the rest of his career already planned out: "Three hundred? Me?" Zambrano said. "No, I'll be out of [...]
Cubs Release Gatorade Dispenser
I thought they would give it at least a full season, but a couple of temper tantrums by Cubs pitchers have led them to re-think their Gatorade fountain experiment: Foxsports.com reporter Ken Rosenthal quoted an unnamed Cubs official Saturday as saying the Gatorade dispenser will be removed from the Cubs dugout. "We'll get it out of there in a [...]
