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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
September 19, 2011
Louie Centanni |
Oh, Ryno, Give Us One More Chance If the Cubs want to have the best shot to return to prominence in the next three to five years, they need to make Ryne Sandberg their next manager. |
Sports Central
January 6, 2005
Jeff Kallman |
Mr. Unexcitement, Up to Cooperstown Ryne Sandberg was elected to the Hall of Fame. |
Sports Central
June 30, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Essentially, Sandberg Fired the Phillies Ryne Sandberg decided not to wait for the coming front office shakeup that everyone except possibly the Phillies themselves really knew was well overdue. |
Sports Central
January 27, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
Ernie Banks, RIP: Always a Beautiful Day There is no joy in Wrigleyville. Mighty Ernie has checked out. At 83. Cub fans aren't the only ones in baseball's world who think that, for Ernie Banks, it's still too young to go. |
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
January 27, 2009
Jeff Kallman |
Cooperstown Calling Commentary about recent Hall of Fame selections. |
Sports Central
March 22, 2012
Jeff Kallman |
Great Players Becoming Great Managers At this writing, Don Mattingly could become a genuinely great manager in time or the next Mel Ott, a genuinely great player who went genuinely into the tank as a manager. Robin Ventura could go either way, too. |
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 Central
October 29, 2004
Danny Sternfield |
Curse Snatcher: A Study in Cub Baseball The Cubs and the Red Sox both play in large markets with substantial payrolls, and both had not won a World Series in forever and a day. The difference between the two teams: Boston did something about it. |
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
October 21, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: The Cubs, Ahead to the Past? Unless these Cubs find a way to hit better than their .158 LCS average or pitch better than their 4.68 LCS ERA in Game 4, just for openers, it will be forward to the past. |
Salon.com
January 17, 2003
Allen Barra |
Penalties, Part 2 The NFL's dreadful officiating can't be ignored anymore. One solution: Give one ref a TV. |
Sports Central
December 17, 2014
Jeff Kallman |
The Cubs Show Lester More Than the Money In the end, there was more to Jon Lester's signing choice than the dollars in his own pocket. A man doesn't take the second-best offer on the table because he's only in it for the money. |
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. |
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 Central
December 31, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
2011: Dickens Flummoxed Baseball's 2011 season was the best of times and it was the worst of times. |
Sports Illustrated
June 27, 2000
Mark Mravic |
Scorecard It's time the Cubs made the supreme sacrifice for a Series. At Cubs games, these big, happy outdoor parties, it hardly matters whether the beloved Cubbies win or lose. Which is precisely why Wrigley Field must go. |
Sports Central
December 28, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
MLB 2015: It Got Late Early Out There The author ruminates on this year's baseball games and famous players of years past. |
Sports Central
October 22, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: No Cubs Curses, Too Much Mets Time alone will determine whether the Mets and the Cubs develop a history between them comparable to that between the Yankees and the Red Sox for so many decades. |
Sports Central
September 21, 2004
William Geoghegan |
Do Talented Cubs Have a Chance? On paper, the Chicago Cubs should be one of the top four teams in the National League. But as we all know, baseball games aren't played on paper. |
Sports Illustrated
May 21, 2002
Tom Verducci |
Stop the managerial madness Chicago Cubs manager Don Baylor is not the problem in Chicago... |
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 Central
October 7, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
Francona Leaves the Ship His Crew Sank Was it God's will that Terry Francona, arguably the most successful manager in Boston Red Sox history, should end the season not with a sixth trip to the postseason in eight seasons on the bridge, but with a walk away from the ship his own crew sank and a fall on his own sword? |
Sports Illustrated
August 22, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Better Than Ever While others pursue the home run record, Sammy Sosa is having his finest season... |
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
January 22, 2004
Marco Santana |
No More Excuses For the Cubs While it's tempting to look back at the 2003 season and pine on the great season that may have been a Steve Bartman away from the World Series, the Chicago Cubs and their fans must move on. That is easier said than done. |
Sports Central
January 8, 2005
Greg Wyshynski |
Sandbaging Sandbergs The author says he is also consistent when it comes to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He remains, as always, the Cooperstown Nazi. his Hall of Fame would have about 25% of the players currently enshrined. |
Sports Central
October 2, 2003
Jeff Zaginailoff |
Looking Ahead, and Back, At the World Series Matchups A look at the possible World Series matchups and the history between the teams. |
Sports Central
December 15, 2006
Aaron Miller |
Oprah Hendry and the Cubs You can never buy a championship, though the Yankees will definitely try, and now it seems, so will the Chicago Cubs. |
Sports Central
August 9, 2004
M. Edward Guest |
All The Way Back? With Mark Prior healthy and with a rejuvenated Greg Maddux now in the 300-win club, the Cardinals, and the rest of baseball, must be wary of the Cubs. |
Sports Illustrated
March 29, 2000
Kostya Kennedy |
What better way to start the day? Mets lose to Chicago. |
Sports Central
March 17, 2008
Matt Thomas |
MLB 2008: 15 Reasons to Watch Fifteen examples of what is sure to be served up on your Major League Baseball plate over the course of the upcoming season. |
Sports Central
March 2, 2004
Shane McKiness |
Cubs in Position to Win Pennant The Cubs were underdogs last year, and this year, they are again being ignored by the media. I have found this to be deeply disturbing. It is obvious why they are being ignored -- it is because of the offseason acquisitions that the New York Yankees have made. |
Sports Illustrated
July 5, 2000
Frank Deford |
Back to 2000 -- and reality -- in Boston Oh, Y2K looked so much like ours. And then the season started, and whaddya know, whatever the millennium, it turned out to be just another Boston baseball season, like any other. |
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 Illustrated
July 4, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Brave move Atlanta is a better team without Rocker... |
Sports Central
May 31, 2012
Louie Centanni |
How to Fix the Cubs With the worst record in the National League (and a tie for the MLB worst) as of this writing, it's safe to say the Chicago Cubs have some holes to fill. |
Sports Central
September 18, 2003
Marco Santana |
End of Season Baseball Musings A few random musings as the baseball season nears its end. |
Sports Central
August 10, 2007
Bob Ekstrom |
Cards/Cubs Still an Undercard Cubs and Cards fans regard their rivalry as Red Sox/Yankees on steroids. |
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 Illustrated
July 31, 2001
Stephen Cannella |
Baseball: Beating the Clock As the trade deadline neared, contenders got help for the stretch run... |
Sports Central
October 20, 2015
Jeff Kallman |
NLCS: The New Murphy's Law The Cubs are trying to figure out how a guy who's never hit more than fourteen home runs in any regular season has hit five in a single postseason, and off the league's top three Cy Young Award candidates while he was at it. |
Sports Central
October 14, 2003
Louis Llovio |
Even in its Shining Hour, MLB Manages to Screw Things Up World Series scheduling could be a fiasco |
Bank Systems & Technology
November 3, 2003
Katherine Burger |
Baseball Best Practices As a lifelong, diehard, long-suffering fan of the Chicago Cubs, I'm still trying to salvage something positive out of the disappointing recent playoff experience. |
Sports Central
April 13, 2007
Eric Anderson |
Slammin' Sammy's Comeback While many are rooting for Slammin' Sammy to make a remarkable comeback, for this Cubs fan, here are two final words for the man who once ruled Wrigley: Good riddance. |
Sports Illustrated
June 27, 2001
Tom Verducci |
Cubs crowing, Barry growing Can the Cubs keep it up? Not without improved offense... Trading rumors floated and addressed... |
Sports Illustrated
July 9, 2002
Stephen Cannella |
In the Line of Fire The Cubs' Don Baylor was the latest to go down in a tough season for managers. |
| AskMen.com |
Sosa: It Was The Cream Former Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa says a cosmetic cream he uses is the reason for his lighter skin tone, not a Michael Jackson fantasy or a skin illness. |
