Tony Womack

There was a hostile takeover of downtown St. Louis on Saturday night, with Cubs fans gathering en masse across the street from Busch Stadium to harass any red-clad bystanders. Things were back to normal Monday afternoon. With most of the road-tripping...

Dusty Baker walked around Wrigley Field at 9:45 a.m. Wednesday, taking small handfuls of a dirt-like substance from a bag and spreading it throughout the infield and outfield, sort of like Dusty Appleseed. Baker wouldn't reveal the bag's contents or...

Things tend to happen to the Cubs at Busch Stadium that don't happen anywhere else. Good teams, bad teams, mediocre teams … it doesn't seem to matter. By hook or by crook, they almost always find a way to lose in St. Louis. But after Tuesday's 5-4...

STARTING PITCHING The Dodgers were the only National League team with more effective starters than the Cubs in the regular season. The guys at the front of the Cubs' rotation, Kerry Wood and Mark Prior, ended the season strongly. With Wood, scheduled to...

It would be easy to say Brian Daubach made a big splash Thursday night. It would be true too. Daubach, making his first start in six games, became the first player this season to hit a home run into the pool beyond the right-field fence at Bank One...

Damaso Marte put on quite a show Tuesday. And it came hours before the game's first pitch. The left-handed White Sox reliever moon-walked to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," drawing high-fives from teammates D'Angelo Jimenez and Miguel Olivo. Third-base...

Byung-Hyun Kim struck out Sammy Sosa with runners on second and third to end the game, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Cubs 3-2 Friday night. Rather than intentionally walk the dangerous Sosa, the Diamondbacks decided to pitch to him because of...

2006 record: 71-91, 5th Manager: Manny Acta (1st season) Home games: Space Coast Stadium (8,100), 5800 Stadium Parkway, Viera/Melbourne. Directions: I-95 to exit 73 (Wickham Road); west to Lake Andrew Drive; follow to stadium. Tickets: $8, $10, $15, $18,...

The Cubs finished off St. Louis with a 7-6 victory at Wrigley Field on Thursday, surviving two ejections, two lost balls in the sun and another chapter in their ongoing battle against the umpires. When all was said and done in this intense series, the...

LaTroy Hawkins paced the Cubs clubhouse Friday night like a caged lion after walking home the winning run in the ninth inning of a 4-3 loss to St. Louis at Busch Stadium. There was no way to console the reliever after he walked Mike Matheny on a 3-2...

The 2003 salaries for the 827 major league baseball players on opening day rosters and disabled lists. Figures were obtained by The Associated Press from management and player sources and include salaries and pro-rated shares of signing bonuses and...

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...