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  • Aug 10, 2018

    Speedpass, Yu-san, Hollywood: Cubs Players' Weekend nicknames are out

    The unique nicknames and uniforms of Players’ Weekend are here. The three-day baseball festivity will take place Aug. 24-26, according to MLB.com, and players will showcase nicknames of their choice on the back of special edition jerseys for this year. The Cincinnati Reds will come to Wrigley Field for the series.  This season, the Cubs will be sporting strikingly similar threads...

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  • Aug 9, 2018

    White Sox get a complete makeover with new Players' Weekend jerseys

    The unique nicknames and uniforms of Players’ Weekend are here. The three-day baseball festivity will take place Aug. 24-26, according to MLB.com, and players will showcase nicknames of their choice on the back of newly designed jerseys for this year. The White Sox will travel to Detroit for the series.  This season, the South Side club will be sporting gray and...

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  • Aug 9, 2018

    WATCH: White Sox grounds crew member Nevest Coleman receives 2005 World Series watch

    Nevest Coleman, a White Sox grounds crew member who was wrongly convicted of rape and murder in 1994, received a World Series watch by team owner Jerry Reinsdorf Wednesday afternoon. In 2005, every groundskeeper was given the same commemorative timepiece. Coleman was rehired in March after he was freed from imprisonment after 23 years in November when DNA evidence exonerated…

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  • Aug 9, 2018

    Five people charged with trafficking $73 million in fake Nike Air Jordans

    Are they real or are they fake? According to Aaron Katersky of ABC News in a report on Tuesday, five people were charged for trafficking thousands of counterfeit Nike Air Jordans, a shoe originally created for Chicago Bulls great Michael Jordan, in New York. The copies would have been worth $73 million if they were real, authentic sneakers, according to…

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  • Aug 2, 2018

    Derrick Rose starts a scholarship program for high school students

    Derrick Rose has helped his hometown of Chicago with a multitude of charitable works, but Wednesday night, he started a new program that can help out a select few from around the country. The former Bulls point guard announced the launch of The Rose Scholars, which will provide scholarship money to three motivated high school students for their college expenses….

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  • Aug 1, 2018

    Even if Jordan hadn't retired, Robert Horry thinks there's no way Bulls would've beaten Rockets in '94 or '95 NBA Finals

    Even if Michael Jordan chose not to retire from basketball for almost two full seasons to play baseball, former NBA forward Robert Horry thinks his Houston Rockets would’ve defeated the Bulls if the two teams met in the 1994 and 1995 NBA Finals. On this week’s Scoop B Radio podcast, Horry said his team would’ve conquered Chicago regardless of...

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  • Aug 1, 2018

    Eloy Jimenez and Dylan Cease named White Sox minor leaguers of the month

    Fans may have heard this already, but White Sox prospects Eloy Jimenez and Dylan Cease were utterly dominant throughout July. That’s why they’ve deservedly been named the organization’s minor leaguers of the month after a vote by a panel of Chicago area media members. Jimenez, the White Sox Minor League Player of the Month, hit .435 with six home...

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  • Jul 27, 2018

    Discussions of a bowl game at Wrigley Field have stalled

    The plan for a college football bowl game at Wrigley Field in 2020 is no more. According to the Tribune, it may only be temporary, but discussions of the event have stalled because officials from the Cubs wanted to host a top-ranked Big Ten team, such as the third or fourth best. But conference officials said they would rather have…

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  • Jul 25, 2018

    Eddie Olczyk, Bobby Hull, Jeremy Roenick highlight former players at 2018 Blackhawks Convention

    The Blackhawks will host a sizable group of alumni at the 11th annual Blackhawks Convention this weekend at the Hilton Chicago. Eddie Olczyk, Bobby and Dennis Hull, Jeremy Roenick, Denis Savard and Chris Chelios are some of the former players highlighting the event, starting on Friday afternoon at 5 p.m. on NBC Chicago’s “Blackhawks Convention Opening Ceremonies.” Blackhawks broadcaster...

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  • Jul 21, 2018

    Would Wendell Carter Jr. be picked higher if the NBA Draft was today?

    According to Bleacher Report, Wendell Carter Jr. would be taken fourth overall by the Memphis Grizzlies if the NBA were to redraft this year’s class based off of Summer League performances. It may sound like a crazy concept (and it is), but Carter Jr. averaged the second most points, 14.6, through five July games in Las Vegas. He also averaged…

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