Cubs pitcher Javier Assad was back with the team Saturday at Rate Field for the first time since suffering an oblique injury in spring training.
White Sox outfielder Luis Robert Jr. was not in Friday’s starting lineup with a muscle issue, one of several injury updates for the Cubs and Sox.
Hugo Cuypers scored a penalty late in the first half, Chris Brady earned his second consecutive clean sheet, and the Chicago Fire defeated the New York Red Bulls 1-0 on Saturday night.
There’s no doubt hobby darlings like Jayden Daniels, Caitlin Clark and Shohei Ohtani should command attention across the National, especially with Clark setting yet another women’s sports card record on Thursday night. But what’s amazing is that even with so much sports culture caught up in “the now,” Michael Jordan still remains supreme in the collectibles and memorabilia world.
Ahead of this weekend’s Cubs-Sox series on the South Side, the White Sox will have a decision to make in the next week about whether to trade outfielder Mike Tauchman.
The Schaumburg Boomers scored in seven of their eight trips to the plate and equaled the franchise’s single game record for runs in a 20-5 rout of the Joliet Slammers at Wintrust Field on Saturday night.
Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti, whose background is in professional sports, not college, doesn’t just want to expand the postseason. He wants to alter the sport fundamentally. He wants it to look less like college football and more like the NFL.