Cliff Floyd

The Cubs have until 10 a.m. Wednesday to finalize their 25-man roster for the division series, and general manager Jim Hendry might wait until Tuesday night to make the final decisions. Can Sam Fuld sneak in? Will Kevin Hart make the cut? Hendry wasn't...

This is how well things are going for the Cubs right now: No matter who plays, where they bat and whatever the conditions, it comes out a W. No doubt about it, manager Lou Piniella is on a hot streak. Put 5-foot-8-inch, 170-pound Mike Fontenot in the...

Lou Piniella insisted he doesn't look at the flags before home games to find out which way the wind is blowing. "I just look at my starting pitcher," the Cubs' manager said. "If he's grinning, I know the flag is blowing in."Ted Lilly wasn't exactly...

The dawn of the Felix Pie era looked eerily familiar to the end of the Sammy Sosa era three years ago. Plenty of flash and dash, but the results were the same. Pie's major-league debut Tuesday was spoiled by another crushing one-run defeat for the...

When the Cubs entered the bottom of the ninth inning trailing Cincinnati by two runs Monday night and with Milwaukee's win already posted on the center-field scoreboard, it was time to see just exactly what this team was made of. They hadn't won a game...

When it was all over, when the Cubs finally knew they would be playing baseball into October, a clubhouse explosion was the order of the day. It wasn't the kind of blast that provided the city with a dose of shock therapy back in June, but instead was...

As the Cubs take a day off on Monday before their biggest series since 2004, a three-game showdown against second-place Milwaukee at Wrigley Field, it's hard to pinpoint exactly where they are. The standings say they're still in first place, 1 1/2...

Cubs manager Lou Piniella took the Belmont Avenue exit off Lake Shore Drive on his way to Wrigley Field on Tuesday morning, after getting off at Fullerton on his first day Monday. "I made strides today," he said. Eight games into the season, however,...

With Alan Trammell in the managerial seat again as Lou Piniella served the second game of his four-game suspension, the Cubs came to Milwaukee needing to win at least two of three to re-establish themselves in the Central Division race, where any team...

Cubs manager Lou Piniella took a wrong turn in the tunnel while returning to the clubhouse after batting practice Monday before a security guard pointed him in the right direction. It might take a while before Piniella gets used to Wrigley Field, just as...

When Houston shortstop Mark Loretta started the bottom of the ninth inning with a ground ball that took a freakish bounce off the first base bag and wound up in right field for a base hit, any student of Cubs history knew exactly what was going to...

Manager Lou Piniella was speechless Monday night after the Cubs blew a four-run lead in a 5-4, 12-inning loss to Milwaukee at Wrigley Field. Piniella blew off his postgame interview session after Cubs hitting coach Gerald Perry got into a loud and...