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The Chicago Cubs have hired Milwaukee Brewers hitting coach Dale Sveum (swaym) as their new manager. The Cubs announced the move Thursday and said he would be introduced at a news conference Friday at Wrigley Field.

Sveum replaces Mike Quade, who was fired after the season by Theo Epstein, the team's new president of baseball operations.

Wrigley Field's first college football game in 72 years has become a circus. Only one end zone will be used, due to safety concerns.

It's a backyard football farce, writes Stewart Mandel.

Hiroki Kuroda pitched eight superb innings, Andre Ethier had two run-scoring hits and the Los Angeles Dodgers sent the San Diego Padres back into second place in the NL West with a 3-1 victory Thursday night.

The Padres fell a half-game behind the San Francisco Giants, who beat the Chicago Cubs 13-0 at Wrigley Field.

The biggest question for any Cubs season is, is this the year? While there is not under new management sign hanging on Wrigley Field, New ownership is finally in place and Tom Ricketts looks like he will be spending huge jack on stadium upgrades.

Aaron Boone is set to play in a major league baseball game for the first time since having open heart surgery in late March.

Boone was in the starting lineup Wednesday at first base for the Houston Astros in a game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field.

He was batting seventh. Boone signed with the Astros in the offseason, then had surgery March 26 because of a congenital defect in his aortic...

Media conglomerate Tribune Co. announced a definitive agreement Friday to sell all but a 5 percent stake in the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field to the billionaire Ricketts family, capping a tortuous process that began nearly 2 1/2 years ago.

Tribune valued the transaction at about $845 million. "Our family is thrilled to have reached an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in the Chicago...

Tribune Co. has reached a long-awaited definitive agreement to sell the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field to the billionaire Ricketts family.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Tribune Co. announces agreement for sale of Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field, to Ricketts family.

In each major sport that are certain things that are sacred. Regardless of what football team one roots for Lambeau Field is a sacred place, in baseball Wrigley Field is deemed sacred, and up until Sunday winning a race at Michigan International Speedway was a sacred feat reserved for one of the three American car companies