Liam Hendriks got his first win since his return from cancer on National Cancer Survivors Day. After “an emotional week,” he’s looking and feeling a lot more like his All-Star self, and a return to his regular closer role is next.
Jake Burger won Sunday’s game by doing what the White Sox’ offense was designed to do: thump. Things haven’t clicked through two months, but Pedro Grifol still believes these bats can get hot.
The first week of June has a lot of great memories for the Chicago Blackhawks. There were numerous Stanley Cup Final games played to go along with winning another Western Conference championship.
The White Sox, finally fully healthy, put together a textbook win against the Tigers to start June with a win.
Dansby Swanson didn’t want to comment on the trade deadline during this past homestand. As he pointed out, the deadline is still two months away (Aug. 1 this season). The Cubs are now only 55 games into their season, just over a third of the way through. “There’s a lot of baseball to be played,” Swanson said. With that in…
Since the Chicago Blackhawks won the draft lottery, and the right to draft generational talent, Connor Bedard, the conversation has focused on what happens to the roster now. Does this halt the rebuild? No. It doesn’t. Should the Hawks start signing free agents to help Bedard right away? Probably not, but maybe they could take on some bad contracts. Which…
The Chicago Bears started taking down Arlington Park this week, putting a wrecking ball to one of horse racing’s crown jewels and home to a lot of great memories over the years. How should we feel about it? Arlington Heights native Luke Stuckmeyer talks about the issue with Kevin Kaduk, who always enjoyed watching the ponies in the northwest suburbs.…
When it comes to showing up for voluntary portions of the NFL offseason program, the reality is that not all situations are equal. When Robert Quinn didn’t show up to OTAs last year — or even mandatory veteran minicamp for that matter — no one really blinked an eye. Quinn was a veteran player with one job: go get the…...
Among some of the impressive individual performances on the Cubs through the first two months of the season, the job Justin Steele has done has been arguably the most important. Now, it’s unclear when Steele will get back on the mound to continue his stellar 2023 season. Steele was removed from the Cubs’ 4-3 loss to the Rays on Wednesday…