You can throw out the records when the Cubs play the White Sox, and often that's necessary — the Cubs and Sox have both had winning...

Bears rookie wide receiver Luther Burden, the team's second-round draft pick (No. 39 overall) from Missouri, has yet to participate in...

It's hard to believe that 56 years after they put a man on the moon, there's still no cure for the common cold. But what an...

Chicago's major pro sports teams have won 12 championships since the 1985 Bears ended a 21-year drought (*The NASL champion Sting won...

The White Sox celebrated the 20th anniversary of their 2005 AL Central championship team last weekend at Rate Field. And was a typically...

The Cubs in first place in July is nothing to get excited about these days. But once upon a time, it was literally a cause for...

You're only 16 once, which I guess is why "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain & Tennille resonated with me in 1975 nearly as much as...

Jimmy Piersall was described as "colorful," "eccentric," "daffy," "clownish," and "zany" as a productive Red Sox rookie in 1952 before...

On June 13, 1948 — 77 years ago Friday — the Yankees celebrated the 25th anniversary of Yankee Stadium and honored the legendary Babe...

Even with the reserve clause in effect in the mid-1960s, major league baseball still had a free agency problem. Signing prospects was...

Friday is the 81st anniversary of D-Day, the Allies' invasion of France during World War II. It's a little different re-visiting D-Day...

Lou Gehrig's major-league-record streak of 2,130 games played started 100 years ago Sunday — when he pinch-hit for shortstop Paul...

The Chicagoland Antique Advertising, Slot Machine & Jukebox Show is too long of a name for a collectibles show but not long enough at the...

Though he was a two-time All-Star, Carlos May wasn't the most famous White Sox player even in his hey-day, but every Sox fan knows his...

Pete Rose was the focus of baseball commissioner Rob Manfred's edict that a lifetime ban from baseball ended when that player died. But...

The basketball gods twisted the knife on the Bulls on Monday night. By losing the coin-flip with the Mavericks for the No. 11 pick in the...

Ernie Banks still had it when the 1970 season opened, but he was losing it. Banks hit 23 home runs and had 106 RBIs (fifth in the...

The Cubs have lost three of their last four games and now begin their first full pitching rotation without Justin Steele and Shota...

Eddie Johnson and I were born five weeks apart in 1959, just miles apart in Chicago. That’s where the similarities ended. Johnson ended...

The wind was blowing out at Wrigley Field, so the Cubs' wild 13-11 victory over the Diamondbacks wasn't that unexpected — even at Wrigley...