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What do you get when you cross a football player with a pitcher? You get one tough S.O.B. You get the Cubs' Jeff Samardzija, bloody finger and all.

Dan Szymborski uses the ZiPS projection system tells the best MLB prop bets to make for 2013.

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Northwestern will play up to five games at Wrigley Field as part of a multiyear agreement with the Chicago Cubs.

The Chicago Cubs are the most dependably futile franchise in sports, an IRL manifestation of Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. Right now they boast a triple-digit loss column and somehow, miraculously, are not in last place, depriving fans t...

PITTSBURGH -- To mark the occasion of the first Sunday of NFL football, Chicago Cubs players will wear an NFL Football jersey of their choice on the flight from Pittsburgh to Houston on Sunday night. The themed flight is in the interest of bonding...

Jeff Samardzija doesn't like the "Shamrock Series" uniforms the Irish will wear in Chicago.

Chicago Cubs reliever Jeff Samardzija may never be the elite starter many fans hoped for when the Cubs drafted him in fifth round of the 2006 draft and lured him away from football with a lucrative contract, but he is sliding in the right direction. ...

CHICAGO -- First and foremost, this is a baseball city. Not a Bears town, not a hockey town or a Bulls town. Not a lingerie football town (yet). Those are all unifying teams. Unlike the segregating infrastructure of Chicago's history, basebal...

Former Chicago Cubs stalwart Keith Moreland will be the team's new radio color analyst, replacing Ron Santo, WGN Radio announced on Wednesday.

As a record-setting receiver for Notre Dame, Jeff Samardzija might have had a bright NFL future, but he chose baseball and signed with the Chicago Cubs in 2006. After three seasons of shuttling between the major and minor leagues as well as the start...

The Chicago Cubs' Jeff Samardzija said he is too proud to make the jump back to football.

Getty Images "Mark, you can't threaten to choke out the BCS. That's not cool." The BCS must not be too happy with the Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers these days. That's because after failed attempts to purchase both MLB teams, Dallas Mavericks own...

CHICAGO -- Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano couldn't believe his eyes Thursday morning when he popped his head out from the Cubs' dugout to catch a glimpse of Northwestern's football team practicing at Wrigley Field. Read the entire story....

Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano couldn't believe his eyes Thursday morning when he popped his head out from the Cubs' dugout to catch a glimpse of Northwestern's football team practicing at Wrigley Field.

Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts said if he had his way, the Illinois-Northwestern football game at Wrigley Field on Saturday would be an annual event. Read the entire story....

The Wrigley Field sign was painted purple in preparation for Saturday's Northwestern-Illinois football game.