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Salon.com June 6, 2002 King Kaufman |
The ax Five baseball managers have felt the blade since Opening Day. Coincidence, or is something going on? |
Sports Illustrated May 21, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Stop the managerial madness Chicago Cubs manager Don Baylor is not the problem in Chicago... |
Sports Illustrated September 5, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Will Chicago kick dirt on the Big Hurt? Unique clause may end Frank Thomas' days with White Sox |
Sports Illustrated June 12, 2000 Jack McCallum |
Don't slam Sammy Contrary to what that pinstriped, pinheaded George Will believes, managing a baseball team is not rocket science. The job is quite simple if managers remember a few don'ts. |
Sports Illustrated March 26, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
A Matter of Time Look for the Cubs to call up righthander Mark Prior, 21, sooner rather than later... |
Sports Illustrated July 2, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
All the Answers In the game of prognostication you use every available tool. We've gazed into our Magic 8 Ball to see how the remainder of the baseball season will play out |
Salon.com June 13, 2000 Gary Kaufman |
So long, Sammy As the centennial of their last World Series victory nears, the Chicago Cubs prepare to trade their best and most popular player. |
Sports Central August 2, 2004 Damian Greene |
Wrigley Field's Friendly Confine Fallout Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley told Cubs' officials, "Fix Wrigley or I'll shut it down." Did he mean the stadium or the team? |
Sports Illustrated March 13, 2002 Tom Verducci |
On the hot seat Which MLB managers shouldn't make any long-term plans? |
Sports Illustrated July 31, 2001 Stephen Cannella |
Baseball: Beating the Clock As the trade deadline neared, contenders got help for the stretch run... |
Sports Central August 10, 2004 Martin Hawrysko |
Why Cards Are More Deserving Than Cubs "Congratulations to the 2004 National League Central champions, the St. Louis Cardinals." This with almost two months remaining in the season ... and from a Cubs fan, no less? |
Sports Illustrated March 8, 2000 |
Heavy Lowe-d Red Sox closer to assume heavy relief role |
Sports Central October 6, 2004 Martin Hawrysko |
Failed Season, Dismal Future for Cubs The 2004 Cubs team was built to accomplish one thing -- win the World Series. With the future of Sosa, Alou, and Garciaparra unknown, only God knows what this team will look like next season. |
Salon.com July 7, 2000 Allen Barra |
The new Black Sox The Cubs know they can lose games and draw capacity crowds with or without Sammy Sosa and his big salary, so they're going to dump him. How is that different from throwing games for gambling money? |
Sports Central June 10, 2005 William Geoghegan |
These Cubs Are Dusty's Kind of Team The 2005 Cubs, the stripped-down, less powerful, injury-riddled, not-that-great-on-paper Cubs, are playing better than the 2004 edition really ever did. |
Sports Central August 22, 2011 Jeff Kallman |
A Not-So-Nice Finish The Chicago Cubs wanted Jim Hendry to hang around long enough to run the club's draft and get their draftees signed, but they didn't want him making any significant moves approaching the non-waiver trade deadilne. |
Sports Central October 14, 2015 Jeff Kallman |
NLDS: Clubs (er, Cubs) Go to NLCS Believe it. The Chicago Cubs have clubbed their way into the National League Championship Series. |
Sports Central September 18, 2007 Ricky Dimon |
Hope Springs Eternal, But Should It? What do Cubs fans have if they don't have hope? |
Sports Central August 25, 2010 Jeff Kallman |
Yes, Sandberg Deserves the Job Could it possibly hurt the Cubs to have a competent manager who just so happens to have a storied name of his own? They could do much worse. |
Sports Central July 15, 2004 William Geoghegan |
"Brew Crew" No Longer a Sideshow For some franchises, a slightly better than .500 record wouldn't mean much. Not so for the success-starved Brewers. The fans are taking notice, and attendance is up. |
Sports Illustrated June 21, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Mending Wood Velocity down, Cubs pitcher struggling to regain form |
Sports Illustrated August 1, 2001 Tom Verducci |
What's the motivation? Intent is key when unwritten rules are broken. The barking Davey Lopes did at Rickey Henderson recently touched off yet another discussion about the unwritten rules of baseball... |
Sports Illustrated February 28, 2001 E.M. Swift |
Lamenting Chicago's baseball woes 2001 will mark the 84th consecutive year that neither the White Sox nor their crosstown comrades in bad arms, the Cubs, will win the World Series. Think about that... |
Sports Illustrated January 15, 2003 Ian Thomsen |
Every Man For Himself Eyeing free agency, some Clippers put their stats ahead of their team. |
Sports Central October 6, 2008 Kyle Jahner |
Setting the Stage For October Rays and Brewers and Cubs will battle in October. Even the Twins have a shot to crash the party. But the Yankees, Tigers, Mets, and their nine-figure payrolls failed to make the guest list. |
Sports Illustrated June 8, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Sosa should have gone to Baylor first The Sammy Sosa saga; Billy Koch; Expo All-Stars; etc. |
Sports Central August 27, 2009 Matt Thomas |
Also-Rans Key During MLB Stretch Run Because baseball must go on, even in those cities where the race has been over since mid-May, what follows is a breakdown of the five most relevant irrelevant teams in Major League Baseball for the balance of the 2009 season. |