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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,...

Cubs May File Bankruptcy as Means to Complete Sale

There hasn't been a team in Major League Baseball to file for bankruptcy in 39 years, and one of the last teams you would expect to break the drought would be the affluent Cubs. Say what you will about their on-field performance, but the one thing the Cubs do annually is make money. The problem, though, is that they are...

Tribune Company Finally Reaches Deal To Sell the Cubs

What was supposed to happen by the end of May, er, in February, er, in December of 2008 -- you get the idea. The sale of the Chicago Cubs from Sam Zell's Tribune Company has been dragging along at a sloth-like pace for as long as anyone cares to remember. Judging by this past weekend, though, it appears the finishing...

New Cubs Owner Asking for Money From Local Celebrities

Tom Ricketts and his family put in the winning bid to purchase the Chicago Cubs back in January, but the details of their offer have yet to be finalized four months later, and Ricketts is looking to find some other investors to help back his $900 million offer for the team. He doesn't need the help with the $850 million...

Tom Ricketts Wins Cubs for $900 Million

The long, arduous Cubs sale is not yet over, but late yesterday it got a good bit closer: Tom Ricketts, the chairman of a corporate bond dealer and the son of T.D. Ameritrade owner Joseph Ricketts, bought the team for a reported $900 million. That wasn't the highest offer but was the one with the most cash behind it; as...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST - LOCAL

Is Cubs Owner Tom Ricketts Being Scapegoated?

"For the sins of your fathers you, though guiltless, shall suffer."

THE HUFFINGTON POST - LOCAL

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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05/31/12 Is Cubs Owner Tom Ricketts Being Scapegoated? Source: The Huffington Post - Local "For the sins of your fathers you, though guiltless, shall suffer."
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-...