Chicago Cubs
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Cubs' spring training has been anything but easyMar 03, 2008 10:00 pm - MESA, Ariz. -- Not long ago, Cubs manager Lou Piniella was talking about how smoothly spring training was going. Then Mark DeRosa had to go back to Chicago because of an...
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Diabetes won't hold back Cubs' outfield prospectMar 03, 2008 10:00 pm - PEORIA, Ariz. -- At 8 in the morning, Sam Fuld scarfs down a blueberry muffin, heads for his locker and unzips a small black case. Cell phone? BlackBerry? Nope. Glucome...
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Meet and greet with SuzukiMar 03, 2008 10:00 pm - PEORIA, Ariz. -- Kosuke Fukudome and Ichiro Suzuki met outside the first-base line Monday, bowed to each other and said "konnichiwa" quickly before the Cubs played the M...
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Cubs working on clearing up some issuesMar 03, 2008 10:00 pm - MESA, Ariz. - Even though the Cactus League season has just started, spring training is about half over. The Cubs, who started so quietly in February, already have a hos...
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Soriano's spring derailed slightly by finger fractureMar 02, 2008 10:00 pm - MESA, Ariz. -- The Cubs say the break in Alfonso Soriano's finger isn't as bad as it could have been. The left fielder suffered a "non-displaced" fracture of the right m...
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Fukudome armed, but not ready with the batMar 02, 2008 10:00 pm - MESA, Ariz. -- Kosuke Fukudome looks to be completely over the elbow problems that cut short his 2007 season in Japan. Fukudome fired a couple of lasers to third base fr...
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Piniella apologizes, but Marquis still faces same scenarioMar 02, 2008 10:00 pm - MESA, Ariz. -- Just because Cubs manager Lou Piniella apologized Sunday to pitcher Jason Marquis doesn't change Marquis' situation. He's still battling for a spot in th...
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Heart-healthy DeRosa grateful to be backMar 02, 2008 10:00 pm - MESA, Ariz. -- If the worst thing that happens to Mark DeRosa is that he can't visit his local barrista or pop the top on a cold one for a few weeks, he'll be just fine....
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The curse extends to JapanMar 01, 2008 10:00 pm - TEMPE, Ariz. -- It was a day off for Kosuke Fukudome on Saturday, but there's always Fukudomania. During the morning workout back in Mesa, a Japanese comedian of sorts, ...
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Marquis' comments draw Piniella's ireMar 01, 2008 10:00 pm - TEMPE, Ariz. -- Jason Marquis didn't come out and say he wanted to be traded. After pitching 2 innings Saturday against the Los Angeles Angels, Marquis said he wanted to...