Alan Solomon

In three games at Triple-A Iowa, Chuck McElroy is 0-1 with a 7.71 earned-run average. When he was sent down last week, a distraught McElroy was told if things went...

The Cubs placed Dwight Smith (small crack in his right thumb) on the disabled list Thursday, retroactive to July 8, and called up Kevin Roberson to take his place on...

Larry Himes knows the key to the second half. "I'd like to see our pitching come closer to what our expectations were when the season started," the Cubs' general manager...

Was Randy Myers "responding to a question that implied the answer"-as he told another newspaper-when he suggested the National League was out to get the Cubs for suing to block...

A day later, Cincinnati manager Davey Johnson was just about over Tom Browning's rooftop adventure. The pitcher watched part of Wednesday's game-in uniform-from atop a Sheffield Avenue apartment building, where...

Ryne Sandberg, who homered with a man on in his first at-bat Wednesday, was booed at home in his previous at-bat Tuesday night. Which just doesn't happen. The boos came...

Second baseman Ryne Sandberg, for the eighth consecutive year, will start for the National League All-Star team. He would have voted for someone else. "I thought the guy who really...

Cubs General Manager Larry Himes declined comment on Chuck McElroy's trade demand Monday night, but acknowledged he has gotten calls. McElroy's name surfaced in trade rumors as early as last...

Cubs center-fielder Dwight Smith got his thumb in the way of a Vinny Castilla single in the fifth inning Sunday, and his status won't be known until the swelling goes...

First baseman Mark Grace probably will be lost for the rest of this series, and possibly longer, because of a strained left hamstring suffered Friday night. It was Sammy Sosa's...