Ja Rule postgame concert canceled during ninth inning of White Sox game at Rate Field

Boos rained down hard as the announcement flashed on the center field scoreboard.

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White Sox manager Will Venable appears to make one of the gaffes of the season in key game against Guardians

If forcing pitcher Noah Schultz's removal in the first inning was part of the game plan, no one in the ballpark could have discerned it.

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Cubs get first crack at Dodgers' Tarik Skubal, but will there be another one in October?

The grand prize of baseball's trade deadline was on the mound Tuesday at Wrigley Field for the two-time-defending world champions. The Cubs hope to see him again when the stage is even bigger.

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Bears' Ben Johnson, Ryan Poles tell all — with a little help from a translator — on eve of training camp

Here's the whole sod story, "rigamarow" and all.

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Big Ten football media days preview: The war for four (natties, that is) is on

Can Curt Cignetti lose? Will Bret Bielema bring the smack talk? Pat Fitzgerald in green!? Here are 10 topics to get you ready for the days to come.

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Teresa Weatherspoon, fired by the Sky in 2024, 'absolutely' wants a second crack at coaching in the WNBA

"The most important thing is moving forward and knowing who you are and what you bring," Weatherspoon said. No one can stop that.”

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All-Star Angel Reese sky-high and living the Dream; says double-doubles 'don't matter' without winning

"Anything I need, I got it," Reese said of her experience in Atlanta. "I ain’t never had that before."

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WNBA All-Star Game puts Sky's fall from the top on all-too-vivid display

The last time the All-Star Game was in Chicago, in 2022, the Sky were an "it" team. What happened? Heck, what hasn't happened?

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Are Cubs, White Sox for real? At All-Star Game, division opponents of both teams weighed in

"The Cubs are [a threat], but I don’t think I’d say the biggest," one player said.

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White Sox All-Stars — all on short-term contracts — discuss their futures in Chicago

Hard decisions will have to be made in regard to Munetaka Murakami, Miguel Vargas, Tristan Peters and others as the Sox front office tries to build a lasting winner.

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Next All-Star stop: Wrigley Field, where the last Home Run Derby was so punchless, it's truly crazy

“I hope the wind is blowing out,” multiple All-Stars in Philadelphia, including the Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong, said of the 2027 event.

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MLB All-Star notes: Munetaka Murakami flames out of Derby; ex-Cub Schwarber, ex-Sox Cease in starring roles

Murakami didn’t make it out of the first round on Monday night at Citizens Bank Park, hitting nine of the 20 pitches served to him out of the yard.

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Pete Crow-Armstrong reps Cubs solo at All-Star Game, pushes back on being called face of the team

"I’ve had really good learning experiences pertaining to people like you giving me that title," PCA said a day before his second Midsummer Classic.

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White Sox polled on team's top first-half players, moments — and how far they'll go from here

“I easily see the talent of this team going into the playoffs,” one player told the Sun-Times. “At this point, it’s up to us.”

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Amid World Cup joy, small-world U.S team is hitting the mark

More than half the players on the American roster own dual citizenship. Not a thing wrong with that.

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The 20 things in sports I only wish I could declare independence from this year

Wait, is this one of those "hit pieces" the online babies are always whining about?

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I swam the 'Greenberg mile' and lived to tell about it

Like an Olympian in super-slow motion — and with a real math problem — I embarked on a needed physical challenge.

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Cubs got the better of the Brewers this time, but over the long haul? It's a huge task

The Cubs can’t piece together an active roster with tin cans and string for too long. We’ll see if winning a series in Milwaukee — to complete a 6-1 road trip — buoys the team for a bit longer.

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Bears QB Caleb Williams vows to 'shut everybody up' by improving completion percentage in 2026

“Stats aren’t always something you should look at,” Williams said on a podcast. “You should look at how they win games.”

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OK, so now Cubs' Dansby Swanson is hitting everything. Any chance he can pitch, too?

The Cubs, whose pitchers have flowed to the injured list like gas through a pipeline all season, are standing at a terrifying crossroads.

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Cubs' Justin Steele on losing years of what should've been his prime — and the success he 'knows' is coming

Another ramp-up is right in front of the lefty, who hasn't pitched in a game in over 14 months. If Steele is going to help this Cubs team find its groove later in the summer, it’s now or never.

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Will Cubs' Dansby Swanson ever hit? He keeps telling himself: 'Today is the day the dam breaks'

Swanson says his confidence has "never wavered," but fans are impatient — and the $177 million shortstop knows it.

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Bulls go all-in on Tiago Splitter, which the Blazers didn't do. Which team will he prove right?

“It’s going to be a lot of work,” the Bulls' new coach said. “It’s going to take some time. [But] I know what it takes.”

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Dodgers tip caps to White Sox after series loss; says one star, 'They'll be fun to watch for years to come'

If it wasn’t obvious before this Sox homestand that things were different on the South Side, it sure ought to be after the Braves and Dodgers came through and lost five of six between them.

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From Soldier Field to Hammond and back: A journey like no other

It has been a week since the Bears announced they were "advancing" their stadium project in Hammond, Indiana. That calls for an expedition across the state line. Won't you come along?

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The Hammond Bears? You gotta be bleepin' us

The Bears aren’t “shufflin’ ” off to Indiana yet, to borrow from the soundtrack of their only Super Bowl championship season, in 1985. But they are blowin’ our minds like they knew they would.

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White Sox GM Chris Getz saw success coming, even if others — including me — didn't

“I realized that people outside of the walls — and plenty of people, probably, inside — didn’t believe [promoting me] was a good move and wanted someone from the outside,” Getz told the Sun-Times. “Bu...

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Munetaka Murakami expected to miss four weeks with hamstring injury, White Sox GM tells Sun-Times

"Hopefully, we’ll stay afloat and keep this interesting," Chris Getz said. "But there’s no real time to sulk, right? That’s not how you’ve got to go about this thing. But it’s a bummer.”

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