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Get updates on the Cubs and Sox, plus opinions from our baseball team at chicago tribune.com/hardballTags: Chicago Cubs
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Dodgers vs. Phillies
PHILLIES LEAD SERIES 2-1 (Best of 7) * if necessary Game 4: Philadelphia 7-5 Wednesday: at Los Angeles, 7 Friday: at Philadelphia, 7* Saturday: at Philadelphia, 7* Game 1: PHILADELPHIA 3-2 Game 2: PHILADELPHIA 8-5 Game 3: LOS...Tags: Philadelphia Phillies
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Cancer takes 'nice, humble' ex-Cubs pitcher
Chicago Tribune reporterFormer major league pitcher Kevin Foster, who fulfilled a lifelong dream by playing for the Cubs, died Saturday at the age of 39. The former Evanston High star died in an Oklahoma City hospital after a six-month bout with renal cell carcinoma, his...Tags: Philadelphia Phillies, Diseases, Death and Dying, National League, Wrigley Field
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almanac: Oct. 14, the 288th day of 2008
There are 78 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: In 1908, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series as they defeated the Detroit Tigers in Game 5, 2-0, at Bennett Park. On this date: In 1066, Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the...Tags: Suicide, Detroit Tigers, Adolf Hitler, Chuck, Theodore Roosevelt
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Blackhawks can't match the pregame hoopla
IN THE WAKE OF THE NEWSMadison Street is a beautiful sight. (Now there's something you don't hear in Chicago every day.) It is approaching sundown. A red carpet is stretched out. A few hundred red hockey jerseys with a handsome, war-painted Indian's face are everywhere you...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Brian Campbell, Public Holidays, Martin Havlat, Dustin Byfuglien
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Naming rights could turn Dodger diamond into gold
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWelcome to Dodger Stadium! Come see the pitchers warm up in the Red Bull Bullpen. Sit in the Bicycle Playing Cards top deck! Leave your car in the Hertz garage for preferred parking, or the Avis lot, where they try harder to find you a spot. Dodger...Tags: Frank McCourt, Philadelphia Phillies, Nokia Theater, William Morris, Dallas Cowboys
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Phillies get their shots in
Chicago Tribune reporterThis National League Championship Series now becomes very simple mathematics: The Dodgers have to win three straight games, the final two in Philadelphia where they are winless in six tries this season, including the first two of these playoffs. In other...Tags: Philadelphia Phillies, Casey Blake, Joe Torre, Matt Stairs, Derek Lowe
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Wakefield In Familiar Role, As He Starts Game Four
— A year ago, Tim Wakefield took the mound for Game 4 of the American League Championship Series with the Red Sox down two games to one, but his injured right shoulder failed him in a 7-3 loss in Cleveland. Tonight, Wakefield reprises that role...Tags: American League, Fenway Park, Injuries, Terry Francona, Paul Byrd
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A playoff monster: Rays homer 4 times, rout Red Sox 9-1 and take 2-1 ALCS lead
AP Sports WriterBOSTON (AP) _ B.J. Upton, Evan Longoria and the rest of the Tampa Bay Rays are bashing their way through their first trip to the playoffs. Upton and Longoria homered off a suddenly shaky Jon Lester, and the power-packed Rays cleared the Green Monster four...Tags: Jason Varitek, Fenway Park, Terry Francona, Jon Lester, Miguel Cabrera
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Will McCain get any better, or is this it?
Time was, the Baltimore Orioles manager was Earl Weaver, a short, irascible, Napoleonic figure who, when cranky, as he frequently was, would shout at an umpire, "Are you going to get any better or is this it?" With, mercifully, only one debate to go, that...Tags: National Government, Government, Jesse Jackson, Minority Groups, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Tuesday's Highlights
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Lights out: The contestants are literally kept in the dark during a baked-goods temptation, with the winner gaining considerably on " The Biggest Loser: Families" (8 p.m. NBC).
Columbia: Astronauts, their families and members of the Columbia...Tags: CBS Corp., The Mentalist, NBC, The Biggest Loser, Ellen Burstyn
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Victorino, Stairs hit 2-run homers in 8th to lift Phillies past Dodgers 7-5 for 3-1 NLCS lead
AP Sports WriterLOS ANGELES (AP) _ The Philadelphia Phillies used their favorite staple, the long ball, to move within one win of the World Series. Shane Victorino and much-traveled pinch-hitter Matt Stairs hit two-run homers off two of Los Angeles' most reliable...Tags: Philadelphia Phillies, Chad Billingsley, Joe Torre, Russell Martin, Jimmy Rollins
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