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Morning Sports Report
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St. Louis scored 5 runs in the eighth inning to turn the tables and beat the Cubs 8-6 on Saturday at Wrigley Field.
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In 2005, Bobby Jenks was as much of a cult hero in Chicago as he was a closer. Burly and baby-faced, he was armed with a fastball that touched 100 mph. Jenks was like a s...
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Lenyn Sosa homered and drove in four runs, Jonathan Cannon pitched into the sixth inning for his first win in seven starts, and the White Sox beat the Colorado Rockies 10-3. Sosa, Mike Tauchman and Colson Montgomery — playing in his second big league game — had three hits each for Chicago.
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One of the first major stars of NASCAR grew up in an unlikely location. Elmhurst native Fred Lorenzen won 26 races from 1962-67, and died last December at 89.
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Alex Bowman thinks he is moving in the right direction. With the NASCAR Cup Series back in Chicago on Sunday, it's good timing for the Hendrick Motorsports driver. Bowman raced to a sorely needed victory in downtown Chicago a year ago, stopping an 80-race drought and securing a spot in the playoffs.
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Shane van Gisbergen has won the pole for Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series race in downtown Chicago. The 36-year-old New Zealander turned a lap at 88.338 mph on a 2.2-mile street course that was made even more treacherous by temperatures in the 90s Fahrenheit on Saturday.
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As well as Jannik Sinner is playing at Wimbledon at the moment, he doesn't appear to need much in the way of help. Still, he got some when his third-round opponent, Pedro Martinez, was dealing with a problematic shoulder and often put in first serves at so-so speeds.
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Without playing much basketball of late, Caitlin Clark has managed to remain just as noticed, hardly a sustainable strategy, but to recall one writer’s review on the deat...
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FOURTH OF JULY, Fifth of July, Sixth of July — does the calendar really matter all that much in The Captive Sports City?
Pick a month, any month, and underachievement is ...
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Since sports leagues remain entranced by sports gambling, here’s an idea for their next prop bet. What’s the over/under on how many professional athletes will get snagged in a betting scandal before you finish reading this sentence?
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