Chicago Cubs
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How to get Howry on track?Aug 15, 2008 11:00 pm - MIAMI - Cubs manager Lou Piniella said Friday that he and pitching coach Larry Rothschild are doing all they can to get beleaguered relief pitcher Bob Howry back on trac...
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Marshall learning to adjustAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - ATLANTA - If there's one thing Sean Marshall has learned, it's being adaptable. Marshall will have to adapt again, only this time it's only a one-day switch. Manager Lou...
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Lilly, Cubs connect as streak hits eightAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - ATLANTA - The hits just kept on coming for the Cubs on Thursday night, in more ways than one. First, they beat the Atlanta Braves 11-7, sweeping this three-game series a...
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2 Cubs minor leaguers suspended for drugs
Aug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- Chicago Cubs pitcher Jesse Lebron and second baseman Alexander Mejia, both with the club's Dominican Summer League farm team, were suspended for 50 games eac...
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Cubs have sweeping successAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - ATLANTA - Even at this stage of his career, Jim Edmonds talks of wanting to "prove" something in baseball. Or maybe it's especially at this stage of his career that he w...
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Soriano chastised, then almost beanedAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - ATLANTA - There's a whole lot of cause and effect in baseball. For example, if Alfonso Soriano hadn't stopped and admired a long drive in the first game of Wednesday's ...
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Marshall to start SundayAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - ATLANTA - In the past couple of years, Jeff Samardzija has gone from football standout to baseball draft pick to minor-leaguer to major-leaguer. The way things were shap...
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In Lou, you do trustyAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - On the one hand, there's Lou Piniella. Sure, he may seem in a trance at times as bench coach Alan Trammell does the heavy lifting, but he comes alive when he sees someth...
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Piniella calms down big 'stir'Aug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - ATLANTA - Cubs manager Lou Piniella apparently is still learning that whatever he says about a star player reverberates throughout Cubdom. So it was in the couple of day...
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Working for Team USA all the medal he needsAug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Through pain you grow. That's what they say. Of course, the ones saying it usually aren't in pain. John Fierro won't necessarily subscribe, though pain is his game, and ...