David Bote’s perseverance pays off as an unlikely Cubs contributor
They lived in the basement of a sister-in-law’s friend in Mishawaka, Ind. David Bote was chasing his major-league dream in the minors with the Class A South Bend Cubs and...
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Why aren’t the Blackhawks and Stan Bowman approaching this offseason with more urgency?
Stan Bowman is the minivan moseying along in the left lane of the expressway, moving forward but slower than he thinks, getting passed as everyone wonders why he’s not in...
Now that the door is open in the East, the Bulls must re-sign Zach LaVine
Chicago will miss LeBron James the way we would miss potholes and traffic, two other painful realities known to ruin a good trip — in the Bulls’ case, a playoff...
Biggest victories in Dorothy Gaters’ National Hall of Fame coaching career at Marshall came off the court
Winning 1,106 games put Marshall coach Dorothy Gaters into the National High School Hall of Fame, but the lasting memory of what she considers one of her greatest victories lacks...
White Sox pitcher Reynaldo Lopez looks capable of being the bell cow of rotation
One of the biggest trades of the White Sox rebuild came about 15 years ago at a Dominican Republic pawn shop when Reynaldo Lopez’s grandfather exchanged cattle for the boy’s...
The 2014 Sammy Sosa tell-all interview that fell through: By saying nothing, he said everything
Clinging to an overnight bag and the promise of a meeting with Sammy Sosa, David Kaplan and I boarded a Chicago-to-Miami flight believing the disgraced Cubs legend wanted to come...
Wendell Carter Jr.’s parents should be thanking Mike Krzyzewski, not criticizing him
If you see the parents of Bulls first-round draft choice Wendell Carter Jr. around town as they prepare to move from Atlanta to Chicago to be closer to their 19-year-old...
Cubs’ Yu Darvish has strong, 5-inning rehab outing but tempers expectations
Under ordinary circumstances, Japanese sports journalist Katsushi Nagao never imagined visiting this city 100 miles east of Wrigley Field best known for its famous college football dateline. “All I know...
Cubs’ rough weekend in Cincinnati should be viewed as a blip, not a red flag
Baseball is the girlfriend that keeps you guessing, the checkbook that never balances, the plot that contains one unexpected twist after another. Baseball is confounding and confusing, irritating but entertaining,...
Rocky Wirtz on whether his words were a warning to Blackhawks: ‘No, I wasn’t sending a message’
Reports of Rocky Wirtz’s decree were greatly exaggerated. The Blackhawks chairman chuckled recalling a conversation this month with Crain’s Chicago Business widely interpreted as Wirtz putting general manager Stan Bowman...