Jacque Jones

|TV SPORTS| |WEDNESDAY|  Soccer -- UEFA Champions League, Anderlecht vs. AC Milan, 1:30 p.m. Real Madrid at Manchester City, same-day tape, 7 p.m. (FSN).  Men’s College Basketball -- Maui Invitational, fifth place, 4 p.m.; third place, 6:30 p....

MINNEAPOLIS -- Glen Perkins couldn't put his pitches where he wanted to. Josh Hamilton made him and the Minnesota Twins pay for it. Hamilton's two-run homer in the eighth capped a three-run inning for Texas and set up Joe Nathan for the save against...

1986 - Dave Azure rushed for 82 yards and two touchdowns to lead Aberdeen Central to a 21-7 victory over Aberdeen Roncalli in the season opener for both teams. 1991 - Chris Swanhorst scored 29 points and hauled down 11 rebounds to lead Northwestern to a...

July 13 1986 - Evander Holyfield defeated Dwight Muhammed Qawi in a split decision to win the World Boxing Association junior heavyweight crown. 1991 - Jason Hulshof, who will be a junior on this year's Aberdeen Central wrestling team, won the...

Starting pitcher Brad Lincoln allowed just two runs over eight innings of work, while designated hitter Pedro Alvarez drove in three, including a mammoth two-run home run, to lead the Indianapolis Indians past the Rochester Red Wings 5-2 on Wednesday...

Ask Paul returns to discuss the latest chaos and calamity that is Chicago Cubs baseball. Now that the Cubs have screwed up Matt Murton who's next? --Lee Barton, Idaho Falls, Idaho I don't know how the Cubs have screwed up Matt Murton, unless you're...

Tired of being nice guys, the Cubs reached deep down and found some long-lost anger Monday in a 12-3 victory over St. Louis at Wrigley Field. They came into their one-game homestand having lost five of seven games, including two of three to a...

On a normal midsummer afternoon at Wrigley Field, Eric Munson's seventh-inning shot Friday off Carlos Marmol would have landed several rows up in the bleachers. But instead of hitting a game-tying grand slam, the Houston catcher wound up with a routine...

There was no kicking or screaming, no harsh language and no flashbacks to Knute Rockne. Manager Lou Piniella called a team meeting late Thursday afternoon to remind his players of "some tough luck we've had" over the last week. "I just wanted these kids...

Jason Marquis correctly pointed out "it's not the end of the world" after the Cubs stranded 15 baserunners in a 5-4, 11-inning loss to the Astros on Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park. And while that may be true, the general mood in the Cubs clubhouse,...

Lou Piniella knew it couldn't last forever, that sooner or later the Cubs would come back to earth. After winning 19 of 24 games through July 20, they suddenly have gone ice-cold. "You're going to cool off, yeah," Piniella said. "But we need to start...

Lou Piniella is so conditioned to hearing the same questions after a Cubs' defeat that he begins answering them before they are asked. So after the Cubs botched several scoring opportunities Wednesday night in a 2-1 loss to San Diego, Piniella knew...