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The U.S. baseball team had to settle for bronze, certainly not the medal color the Americans had planned to bring home.

Taylor Teagarden hit a tiebreaking two-run double in the fifth and Jason Donald followed with a two-run homer off the left-field foul pole, lifting the United States to an 8-4 victory over Japan on Saturday.

The Chicago Cubs and their storied Wrigley Field home inched closer to finding new owners today.

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- which has not publicly set a timetable for the sale - closed the preliminary round of bidding for the baseball team, stadium and the Cubs' 25 percent stake in a regional sports cable channel.