Randall Simon

After all was said and done and the Cubs had clinched their first postseason series victory since 1908, Kerry Wood, Carlos Zambrano and Mike Remlinger ran out to the stands of Turner Field and began dousing the fans with champagne. After a 5-1 victory...

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...

An improbable Cubs season comes down to three games at Wrigley Field, where starting pitchers Mark Prior, Matt Clement and Kerry Wood will hold the keys to their postseason dreams. Whether the weekend winds up in heartache or hysteria remains to be seen,...

The Cubs started out Game 2 of their National League Division Series on Wednesday as though they were primed to torch Atlanta in three quick-and-easy steps. Only five batters into the game, they had a two-run lead and the bases loaded with no outs,...

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...

After the Cubs beat St. Louis in his last start in Busch Stadium in mid-May, Mark Prior flat-out stated they were better than the Cardinals. It was a bold statement for a 22-year-old who had only 12 major-league victories under his belt at the time,...

Even when Mark Prior has a bad day at the office, it's better than a lot of pitchers' good days. Prior posted his seventh straight victory Saturday, stifling Milwaukee 8-4 before a record crowd of 46,218 at Miller Park. But he left the park feeling...

The Cubs were closer to last place than to first in the NL Central, they had lost eight of 11 games and their lineup had scored only eight runs in four games. It would be polite to say the Cubs were trying to stay afloat, except their plight had the...

Doug Glanville was talking before Game 3 about the "Red Ivy Cubs," the nickname he and Josh Paul invented for the first team in eons to play in October when the leaves on the Wrigley Field walls were turning colors. "We're starting something new,"...

Mark Prior knew it was going to be one of those days early in Game 1 of Saturday's doubleheader. "I threw a ball in the dirt and I got a standing O," he said. There was plenty to applaud after Prior pitched the Cubs to a 4-2 win over Pittsburgh in the...

When the final weeks of September roll around, the Cubs usually are gasping for air and trying to ruin someone else's season. But a funny thing has happened in this unpredictable year of magic dust and corked bats, and the Cubs suddenly are peaking in...

Shawn Estes' uncertain status in the Cubs' rotation was a pregame topic once again, but manager Dusty Baker downplayed the significance of Saturday's start against Milwaukee. "I don't think it's right that every time he pitches [reporters ask], 'Is it...