White Sox pitching coach Ethan Katz was effusive in his praise of former charge Garrett Crochet before Sundays game.But he had one wish.Hes one of the best arms Ive ever seen in person, that Ive worked with. Its a special pitcher, Katz said. Im glad hes doing really well. Hes doing what he did last year.Today, he doesnt need to pitch like that.Katz didnt ...

LOS ANGELES Cubs left-hander Justin Steele is scheduled to undergo season-ending elbow surgery on Friday, manager Craig Counsell announced Sunday, to repair his flexor tendon and address his compromised ulnar collateral ligament.The team expects to have a better sense of Steeles recovery timeline after the surgery. It will be unclear until then the degree ...

A custom-made violin was stolen during a robbery on a CTA train Friday night in the Loop, Chicago police say. The instrument, valued at $10,000, was taken around 9 p.m. on a CTA Blue Line train near 117 W. Lake St., police said. Authorities describe the robber as a male between 30 and 40 years old and between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-11. He was wearing a black ...

Martn Prezs belief that big things are possible for the 2025 White Sox might put him in the minority.Something can happen, he reiterated Saturday.But theres no doubting the impact the veteran is having on the pitching staff.Prez has a sub-2.00 ERA, even after giving up a couple runs Saturday against the Red Sox. But his main contribution has been as a ...

When the Sky make their pick in the WNBA Draft on Monday, it wont be nearly as thrilling as a year ago when they landed franchise pillars Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso, but its another significant step in their rebuild.They hold the No. 10 pick, which likely puts them in range of players like South Carolinas Sania Feagin, North Carolina States Aziaha ...

WASHINGTON Rick Woldenberg thought he had come up with a sure-fire plan to protect his Chicago-area educational toy company from President Donald Trumps massive new taxes on Chinese imports."When he announced a 20% tariff, I made a plan to survive 40%, and I thought I was being very clever," said Woldenberg, CEO of Learning Resources, a third-generation ...

The Blackhawks might want to root against themselves in the NHL draft lottery this year.That sounds ridiculous at first, but there's actually a logical reason. It stems from a rule the league installed in 2021 that prevents any team from moving up in the draft order via lottery draw more than twice in any five-year span.The Hawks obviously moved up in 2023, ...

PHILADELPHIA The faces have changed, the playing style underwent a complete transformation, and coach Billy Donovan has gotten a bit grayer, but there the Bulls sat after Sundays 122-102 season-finale win over Philadelphia with the exact same 39-43 record as last year, still spinning the tires sunk in mediocrity.So as much as the organization might want to ...

Walt Whitman was a nurse in the Civil War. His brother George was wounded at the Battle of Fredericksburg. The poet rushed from Brooklyn to a Washington, D.C., hospital and found a "new world" of horror and hope.He wrote a very readable diary about it, "Memoranda During the War," that includes gut-turning descriptions of piles of amputated limbs and loving ...

PHILADELPHIA The campaign is appreciated.Last week, the Bulls Public Relations department started the hype machine for Matas Buzelis to collect votes and receive NBA All-Rookie Team honors.Buzelis saw it, but was also hoping his play on the court since the All-Star Break will equally speak volumes.Any type of award in the NBA Id like, Buzelis said on ...

The Bulls are on a 14-5 tear entering Sundays regular-season finale.To repeat: 14 wins and five losses.To be extra-clear: Yes, these are the Chicago Bulls were talking about.In this weeks Polling Place, your home for Sun-Times sports polls on the social platform X, we asked if the Bulls will get through the play-in tournament and into the playoffs.Its ...

The word school comes from the ancient Greek for free time.Thats one of my favorite language facts. Contemplating it can make you think differently about not just the word, but the very concept it represents. Language doesnt just name things and places and ideas. It shapes them in our minds.And then those shapes shift as the underlying things that words ...

Chicago theater owes a great debt to visionary social reformer Jane Addams. Without her decision to include a community theater in her Hull-House settlement, the citys Off-Loop theater scene might not exist as the unique entity it is today.A new exhibit, Act Well Your Part opening Monday at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, outlines this legacy and its ...

Blackhawks forward prospect Ryan Greene's college season ended in heartbreak Saturday, but he'll have to move on quickly.Greene signed his entry-level contract with a $950,000 salary-cap hit with the Hawks on Sunday, less than 24 hours after the Boston University team he captained lost to Western Michigan in the NCAA national championship. The 21-year-old ...

A woman was found stabbed to death after an altercation with a man late Saturday in Lincoln Square.About 11:25 p.m., the woman, 29, was found inside a home in the 2700 block of West Balmoral Avenue with a stab wound to the torso, Chicago police said.She was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston where she was pronounced dead, police said.An investigation ...

Jim Schottenham launched into a story of George LaBranche's indirect role in the first deliberate catch of a bonefish on a fly.LaBranche, the famed dry-fly hotshot, lived in Islamorada in Florida and happened to be there when guide Bill Smith brought in two bonefish he said they caught on a fly. When LaBranche saw the fly was a bucktail with a piece of pork ...

For 10 years in a row, Chicago has been deemed Americas rattiest city by Orkin Pest Control. The city really wants to shake off the title and a new effort in the Wicker Park and Bucktown neighborhoods could help do just that.A temporary pilot project, announced late last month, is bringing rat birth control to the alleyways behind several of the major ...

DEAR ABBY: My mother-in-law is living with us, and she and my husband are very good friends. They are a lot alike. They're outgoing, and they're huggers, and they talk a lot. I feel like a third wheel most of the time, but I occupy myself by reading in another part of the house or going out.Everything seems to be going quite well, except that before ...

LOS ANGELES Once the Cubs offense got rolling against the Dodgers bullpen, even a position player on the mound couldnt slow the onslaught.The Cubs beat the Dodgers 16-0 on Saturday, handing the home team not only their first loss at Dodger Stadium this season but also the most lopsided home shutout loss in franchise history.It was the first time the Cubs ...