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The Dugout: Chicago Cubs Spring Training 2011

The St. Louis Cardinals officially failed to reach an agreement with Albert Pujols and his weird, arbitrary middle-of-Wednesday deadline, and that means the door is wide open for the Cubs or the Angels or whoever to swoop in with $300 million and add a mythical, baseball-destroying beast to their lineup. If the Angels get...

Cubs' Spring Training to Stay in Arizona After Voters Approve Stadium Funding

The Chicago Cubs have held spring training in Mesa, Ariz., on and off since the 1950s, and residents of the Phoenix suburb obviously want them to stay. Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Prop. 420, which authorizes city funding of up to $99 million to build a new spring training facility for the Cubs. Previous...

Cubs Owner Ricketts Has a (Master) Card Up His Sleeve

The beauty of Tom Ricketts buying the Cubs was that he felt your pain, Cubs fans. A lifelong Cubs fan who used to hang out in the bleachers, Ricketts finally gave Cubs fans a face, a name and heart-making decisions, instead of a cold corporate boardroom.For years, Tribune Co. owned the Cubs and had no qualms, for example,...

Footprints in the Snow: Cubs

Footprints in the Snow is FanHouse's look at the paths to be forged by MLB teams this winter as they look ahead to 2010. Considering the Cubs were probably the most disappointing team in baseball in 2009, they definitely have their work cut out for them this offseason in order to return to being a legitimate contender. I...

The Dugout: The Cubs Get Ricketts

The Chicago Cubs have finally won. They've got a new owner who isn't afraid to go straight to the local media and announce that the Cubs are going to the World Series. Boastful words, considering that the Cubs haven't even made it to the playoffs since Abraham Lincoln was in office. But it's just this sort of powerful,...

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WATCH: Alderman Disses Rahm's Wrigley Field Plan

An influential alderman has thrown a wrench into Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to renovate Wrigley Field to generate more revenue without leaving the city's taxpayers to pay the tab.

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05/25/12 LISTEN: Ricketts Insists Father Not Involved 'With... Source: CBS - WBBM 2 - Chicago IL (WSCR) The unveiling of the "Ricketts Plan" has undoubtedly put Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts in a difficult place.
05/24/12 Rahm Emanuel's walkout Source: Politico Mayor Rahm Emanuel laughed and then walked out of a news conference on Wednesday when asked why he has not returned an apologetic phone call from Ricketts after revelations surfaced about his father's involvement in a conservative SuperPAC considering a $10 million plan to attack the president by resurrecting the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy.
05/23/12 LISTEN: TOM RICKETTS BRUSHES OFF RAHM'S SNUBS Source: ABC - WLS 890 AM - Chicago IL Mayor Emanuel got a question at his news conference about why he hasn't returned Tom Ricketts call and whether his father pondering a super PAC attack ad against Obama featuring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright will sabatoge the Wrigley Field renovation.
05/23/12 Cubs' Ricketts Reaches Out To Local Politicians Source: Sports Business Journal Cubs Chair Tom Ricketts is "reaching out to black politicians and community leaders to try and control the political damage caused by his father's involvement in a conservative super PAC that considered attacking President Barack Obama," according to Fran Spielman of the CHICAGO SUN-...
05/23/12 Bernstein: Ricketts Tap-Dancing Around The Truth Source: CBS - WBBM 2 - Chicago IL (CBS) I'm sure he's saying some of his best friends are black.

Background on Tom Ricketts

Thomas "Tom" Ricketts (January 15, 1853 – January 20, 1939) was an English American silent film actor, director and screenwriter who was involved in almost 350 motion pictures.

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