The plan to reschedule a rainout like Tuesday’s drowned Cubs-Sox tilt usually involves finding some mutual date when each team has a day off before or after a homestand. June 24 is a possibility, as the Cubs end a series …

Plenty of verbal energy has been expended on how Cubs pitcher Scott Feldman thought that he was getting cheered on by the “crowd” at Wrigley Monday night when he came to bat in the fifth inning, when fans were actually …

Cubs fans always have to ask the question: Is it worth it to stick around till the end?

Hey, Sox fans, you have a unique opportunity! Someone on eBay is selling a 2005 Sox World Series Ring. The provenance isn’t totally clear; it’s called a “version” ring, so I imagine it’s from the manufacturing process. Bid away, here. …

It’s not the weather, or the fact that the morons who run the food service there eliminated Guinness (the only beer that actually tastes good when consumed in cold weather outdoors). It’s not the terrible team that the McCaskeys have …

As I contemplate the fact that full payment on my season tickets is due in a few weeks, the news that Cubs manager Dale Sveum was shot by Hall of Famer Robin Yount just makes me smile. Yount’s marksmanship is …

In this two-part “Civilized Debate,” Brent and Bill tackle Notre Dame for you undecideds looking for a rooting interest in the BCS National Championship game on January 7th.

On your marks, get set, moralize! With the release of the 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot, we will begin a silly season of re-hashing all the arguments about steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, with the added downside of the …

News broke today that US Cellular (the company) is abandoning its Midwest markets, selling out to Sprint. What exactly that means, this land-line and rotary-dial phone-owning writer isn’t exactly sure. Do US Cellular customers get shunted off to some other …

Conservative dweeb and staunch Cubs fan George Will has allegedly written one true thing in his long and platitudinous career: “There are only two seasons: baseball and the Void.” And as we enter the void until pitchers and catchers report …

What do you do when your team is eliminated and baseball is moving on to the postseason? In Chicago, this is almost never a hypothetical question. But fear not. Savage, channeling Royko, is here to help you root correctly.

Sports fans one and all love trivia questions. So, as the Chicago Bears vacillate between exciting, exasperating, and mystifying (Great victory thanks to newly dominant offense! Horrific defeat thanks to utter incompetence in all three phases! Not-so-great victory thanks to…whatever!), …

It’s not just the football players who are at risk. The maturing brains of young players are endangered as well, and perhaps even more so. So, enjoy football while you can. It will be changing, because of America’s real national pastime…

After decades of successful suppression, Bill Savage saw it. Last Tuesday night at the Cubs-Astros game, in the top of the 8th inning of a 10-1 Cubs loss. The Wave. Starting in the left-field corner across from the firehouse, and going all the way around. Six, maybe seven, times. Is nothing sacred?