Brooks Kieschnick

This one is too easy: Anthony Rizzo finally got called up from the minors and will make his Cubs debut after going 0-for-his-last-9 in Iowa. So, yeah, he’s a perfect Cub. See? Told you it was too easy. But seriously, folks, Rizzo will start...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Missouri State University sophomore Nick Petree (RHP, Clinton, Mo.) has been named the The Louisville Slugger NCAA Division I National Player of The Year, as released Thursday (May 31) as part of Collegiate Baseball newspaper's...

Imagine the shock for an Atlanta Braves fan who spent the winter abroad without giving his favorite team a second thought. Hey, that isn't Tom Glavine in a New York Mets uniform, is it? And what's the deal with Kevin Millwood wearing that Phillies cap?...

The Milwaukee Brewers can't get any respect … and that's just the way they like it. Preseason forecasts lavished praise on the Cubs and the Houston Astros, the only debate being which team would win the National League Central and which would be the wild...

It took nearly five hours, two sausage races and 17 innings for the Cubs to outlast Milwaukee on Thursday afternoon, but the end result was ultimately worth the wait. Corey Patterson's two-run 17th-inning home run off Brooks Kieschnick sent the Cubs to a...

Hurricane Isabella may meet her match when the Cubs hit Puerto Rico for a three-game series with the Montreal Expos that begins Tuesday. After doing some serious damage to the St. Louis Cardinals' divisional championship hopes by winning four of five...

The Cubs began a two-week road trip without Sammy Sosa on Monday, hoping to find a hero or two to get them through a grueling stretch. No Sammy? No problem. Everyone in the Cubs' starting lineup knocked out at least one hit in an 11-5 romp over the...

Dusty Baker knew exactly what was at stake before Sunday's final game of the city series. "We've got to win just to save some face in this town, because it's so important to everybody," Baker said. Baker insisted the Cubs were not in a slump, saying the...

Paul Sullivan is back to answer his first batch of Cubs questions, and he also has some questions of his own for curious Cubs fans. Has Kerry Wood lost any velocity since his major surgery a few years back? If I remember right, he was consistently...