By ESPN.com news services The Texas Rangers have acquired right-hander Matt Garza from the Chicago Cubs, the team announced Monday night. …read more
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Cards register 4 in 9th to keep Cubs at bay
By Associated Press Yadier Molina hit a three-run homer in St. Louis’ four-run ninth inning, and the Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs 10-6 on Sunday night in the majors’ final game before the All-Star break. …read more
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Ricketts: Cubs will win WS in new Wrigley
By ESPN.com news services Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts said Monday that the framework for a deal to renovate Wrigley Field, which was agreed to by the City of Chicago, will bring a World Series to a fan base that hasn’t seen a championship since 1908.
Cubs reach deal for $500M Wrigley overhaul
By Associated Press The historic home of the Chicago Cubs will get a $500 million facelift, including its first electronic outfield video board, as part of a hard-fought agreement announced Sunday night between the City of Chicago and the ball team.
Cubs Lose To Giants: Chicago Falters, Clevenger Hurt As Cubs Drop To San Francisco 3-2
By The Huffington Post News Editors
CHICAGO — As he struck out and ended the Chicago Cubs‘ 3-2 loss to the San Francisco Giants on Saturday, Steve Clevenger fell to the ground in pain.
It was that type of day for Chicago.
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Scutaro, Bumgarner lead Giants past Cubs
By Chris Haft A resurgent Marco Scutaro collected three hits, while scoring a run and driving in another Saturday to help the Giants outlast the Chicago Cubs, 3-2.
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Panda, Pagan pick up Vogelsong to edge Cubs
By Chris Haft Rookie second baseman Nick Noonan rapped three hits in his first Major League start and Ryan Vogelsong survived a four-run fourth inning Thursday as the Giants won their fourth consecutive game, a 7-6 decision over the Chicago Cubs.
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Cubs' Soler tossed after bat-wielding incident
By ESPN.com news services Chicago Cubs prospect Jorge Soler was ejected from his Class A team’s game Wednesday night after approaching the opposing team’s dugout wielding a bat following an earlier confrontation on the field.
Goat's head sent to Cubs owner at Wrigley
By ESPN.com news services A goat’s head was delivered to Wrigley Field on Wednesday addressed to Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts, a team spokesman confirmed.
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Report: Cubs near Wrigley renovation deal
By Associated Press The city of Chicago and the Ricketts family that owns the Chicago Cubs are close to agreement on a $500 million overhaul of Wrigley Field, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said Friday. …read more
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Rosin Bag Explodes In A.J. Burnett’s Hand In Possible April Fools’ Day Prank (VIDEO)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
After a rosin bag exploded over pitcher A.J. Burnett during the opening-day game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs, there was just one question on everybody’s lips: Was the powdered blast part of a sneaky April Fools’ Day prank or an entirely unintended mishap?
According to USA Today, the Pirates’ ace was taken by surprise at the mound on Monday when a rosin bag — typically used by pitchers to dry their hands — exploded in a cloud of dust around him.
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Would-be Chicago bomber apologizes in letter
A young Lebanese immigrant awaiting sentencing for placing a backpack he thought held a bomb near Chicago’s Wrigley Field wrote a letter to the judge saying he drank “all day, every day” for months before the would-be attack.
In a seven page letter to U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman, Sami Samir Hassoun apologizes and insists he has worked hard at becoming a better person, including by taking yoga instruction in jail.
The letter was included in a defense filing this week. Hassoun, in custody since his 2010 arrest, is scheduled to be sentenced April 5.
Prosecutors want a 30-year prison sentence for the 25-year-old, who pleaded guilty to weapons charges last year. The defense filing argues Hassoun deserves no more than 20 years, in part because they contend he was egged on by an FBI informant to concoct the bombing scheme.
In his plea agreement, Hassoun admitted he dropped what he believed was a bomb into a trash bin on a crowded street by the Chicago Cubs‘ stadium in 2010. The fake device was given to him by undercover FBI agents who had been tipped off by the informant.
In the letter — dated Oct. 12, 2012, but released publicly this week — Hassoun tells Gettleman, “I am so ashamed of my actions and of this horrific crime that I’ve committed.”
He describes feeling despondent and confused with his new life as a bakery worker, frustrated by broken dreams of becoming rich after he and his parents moved to the U.S. from Lebanon in 2008.
“By two to three months before my crime, I was drinking all day, every day,” he wrote. “I would open a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black in the morning and finish it by evening, while also drinking vodka and beer.”
He smoked marijuana regularly and sometimes used cocaine and ecstasy, he wrote.
Hassoun said he has confronted his self-destructiveness, has taken anger-management courses and is working toward a degree through a University of Ohio program designed for inmates.
Hassoun, who was born in Beruit, blamed what he described as longstanding emotional issues, in part, on trauma that lingered with him since childhood living in Ivory Coast when bloody civil strife broke out …read more
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Cuba Travel: Baseball Star Rey Ordonez Allowed To Return Home Thanks To Obama Travel Policies
By The Huffington Post News Editors
When Rey Ordóñez defected from Cuba in 1993, he became only the second baseball player to leave a club on his native island and try to make it in Major League Baseball. Throughout the following decades, Ordóñez traveled across America playing for the New York Mets, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Chicago Cubs, but never made it back to Cuba because U.S. laws banned his return. This week, Ordóñez took advantage of the Cuba travel policy enacted in January and finally returned to Havana, where he was given a hero’s welcome.
An AP reporter found Ordóñez hanging out in a hotel in downtown Havana, taking pictures with his fans and generally having a good time. The shortstop expressed his joy on returning to his homeland and his shock at his star power, saying “It surprised me because I’ve been gone twenty years and, really, I didn’t play much in Cuba.”
Ordóñez owes his trip to an Obama Administration policy, much criticized by Marco Rubio, allowing so-called people-to-people trips to Cuba. Though the process of going to Cuba is still extremely complicated, it is now possible for savvy travelers and homesick ballplayers.
Cain OK after comebacker hits knee
By Chris Haft Giants right-hander Matt Cain avoided serious injury Sunday after being struck on the right knee by a ball hit by Alfonso Soriano of the Chicago Cubs. …read more
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Mark Grace blames self for Dbacks firing, not team
Former Arizona Diamondbacks television analyst Mark Grace says he blames himself, not the team, for firing him last season.
The former first baseman with the Diamondbacks and the Chicago Cubs was fired after he was arrested last August in Scottsdale — his second drunken driving arrest in 15 months.
Grace has pleaded not guilty in October to four felony counts of aggravated DUI. His trial is scheduled for March 19.
Though the Diamondbacks fired Grace after his most recent arrest, the team invited him to participate in a fantasy camp now under way in Scottsdale.
The Arizona Republic (http://bit.ly/UMgVkV ) quotes Grace as saying Monday he was “happy to grab that olive branch.”
Diamondbacks President Derrick says the team supports Grace and looks forward to his future involvement in the organization.
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Colin Kaepernick once chose football over Chicago Cubs
By Hanzus, Dan Two years before the San Francisco 49ers wisely made Colin Kaepernick their second-round pick in the 2011 NFL Draft, baseball’s Chicago Cubs took their own swing at the former Nevada star.
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Giants give Rosario chance, claim righty off waivers
By Chris HaftThe Giants took their turn Friday at obtaining right-hander Sandy Rosario, claiming the much-traveled 27-year-old reliever off waivers from the Chicago Cubs.
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