Articles filed under Sports Types
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O’Donnell: ‘Blessed’ Jiggetts traced path from Bears to radio to grandfather beaming with prideJun 14, 2025 4:37 pm - Former Bear and WSCR sports personality Dan Jiggetts — on a life cycle built for two with wife Karen — has masted the art of being a successful family man.The result is two daughters, two sons-in-law and four grandsons who make Father's Day at any of the family households a celebration of unfettered love, gratitude and happiness.
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Add Vaughn to list of White Sox regrettable draft picksJun 14, 2025 4:31 pm - The White Sox traded former No. 3 overall pick Andrew Vaughn to Milwaukee on Friday. Where does he rank among the team’s greatest draft regrets? Mike McGraw makes a list.
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PCA’s acronym status proves he’s arrived as baseball’s latest phenomJun 14, 2025 2:42 pm - The first place Cubs act like they belong there and the dynamic Pete Crow Armstrong acts as if none of it is unusual. Whatever awaits over the long summer and the adventures of a pending playoffs is awash among the sheer joy of waiting for PCA’s next at bat, his next stolen base, his next chasing down any ball that thinks it can get past him.
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Gilgeous-Alexander goes wild in the 4th, Thunder rally to top Pacers 111-104 and tie FinalsJun 13, 2025 11:49 pm - INDIANAPOLIS — Game on the line, season quite possibly on the line, the Oklahoma City Thunder had only one place to turn. They went to the MVP. And Shai Gilgeous-Alexande...
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Josh Smith homers and scores all 3 runs for Rangers in win over White SoxJun 13, 2025 10:10 pm - Josh Smith homered and scored all three Texas runs as the Rangers beat the Chicago White Sox 3-1. The leadoff hitter for the Rangers had a single in the first and scored on Corey Seager's sacrifice fly. Smith's seventh homer was a 396-foot drive in the third, and he then walked in the fifth before Marcus Semien's RBI double.
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The inaugural AUSL season has been a big hitJun 13, 2025 10:07 pm - The Athletes Unlimited Softball League opened this week in Rosemont to capacity crowds and a feeling it is building a future.
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Cook pitches complete-game shutout, Boomers blank Mud Monsters 4-0Jun 13, 2025 9:34 pm - Cole Cook struck out 12 in a complete game shutout as the Schaumburg Boomers blanked the Mississippi Mud Monsters 4-0 in the first ever meeting between the teams at Wintrust Field on Friday night.
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Brewers trade RHP Aaron Civale to White Sox for 1B Andrew VaughnJun 13, 2025 9:17 pm - The Milwaukee Brewers have traded right-hander Aaron Civale and cash to the Chicago White Sox for first baseman Andrew Vaughn.
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Sam Burns avoided the late meltdown that cost him in the first round of the U.S. Open. He had a 65 and has a one-shot lead at Oakmont. Best of all he was long gone before the calamity set in at Oakmont. It was a long day with rounds approaching six hours. And it was a wild finish. Rory McIlroy threw a club and smashed a tee marker. Phil Mickelson missed the cut with a pair of double bogeys in what might be his final U.S. Open.Jun 13, 2025 8:28 pm - OAKMONT, Pa. — Sam Burns avoided a meltdown that ruined his opening round at the U.S. Open and wound up with a big par save on his last hole for a 5-under 65 and the 36-h...
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Horton responds to big matchup with best outingJun 13, 2025 7:27 pm - Cubs rookie Cade Horton delivered the best start of his major league career and kept his team in a stalemate against Pittsburgh ace Paul Skenes. Horton allowed no runs, 3 hits and 1 walk, while striking out 4. He used just 76 pitches through 5 2/3 innings.