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Pressure’s on Cubs, Brewers with NLCS berth at stake. But who’s feeling it more?Oct 04, 2025 9:00 am - With the Cubs and Brewers playing a best-of-five NLDS starting Saturday in Milwaukee, maybe the pressure has shifted. Maybe now it’s on the Brewers. The Cubs are just a plucky wild-card team, after all.
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Cubs make Cade Horton unavailable for NLDS, name Matthew Boyd as Game 1 starterOct 04, 2025 12:42 am - One day before his team was scheduled to take on the Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell said injured starter Cade Horton has been ruled out for the National League Division Series.
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WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert vows to repair player relationships after criticism by CollierOct 03, 2025 9:06 pm - WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said Friday there's work to be done to repair relationships with players in the league, while adding that there were “inaccuracies” in some of the comments attributed to her by Napheesa Collier in a blistering assessment earlier this week.
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Back-to-back wins after rough start have Williams, Bears breathing easier at byeOct 03, 2025 8:35 pm - Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears headed into their bye breathing easier, with back-to-back wins and a .500 record. They'll take that after a rough start to the season.
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Another round: Will Brewers still have that summer magic against the Cubs?Oct 03, 2025 8:24 pm - The Cubs will begin the division series against Milwaukee on Saturday afternoon at American Family Field. After a scorching summer, have the Brewers cooled off?
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Winning kick was special family moment for Illini’s OlanoOct 03, 2025 3:02 pm - In this week’s local college football roundup, Naperville North grad David Olano sends Illinois to a last-second victory, while Benedictine couldn’t build off an upset win.
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What to watch during MLB’s best-of-5 Division SeriesOct 03, 2025 11:17 am - Major League Baseball’s playoffs now move into the Division Series, which will include Shohei Ohtani's postseason pitching debut, an unwelcome reunion in Milwaukee, a matchup of teams that tied for the most wins in the American League, and a switch-hitting catcher who finished the season with 60 home runs.
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Dansby Swanson leads stellar defensive performance for Cubs in NL Wild-Card SeriesOct 03, 2025 11:11 am - Dansby Swanson just kept making plays for the Chicago Cubs in the NL Wild-Card Series. Grounders up the middle and in the hole. Soft liners and popups.
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Grading Bears after four gamesOct 03, 2025 6:00 am - The Chicago Bears will get a chance to take a break and evaluate where they are four games into the season. The team has an early Week 5 bye, but it might come at a perfe...
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One for the fans: Cubs credit crowd energy for getting past Padres, advance to face BrewersOct 02, 2025 11:28 pm - Pete Crow-Armstrong had messages for Cubs fans both before and after Thursday’s 3-1 victory over San Diego to clinch the wild-card series.