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  • Free passes costly for Peavy in road-trip finale

    CWS@LAA: Rios' RBI double gets White Sox on the board ANAHEIM -- An uncharacteristic White Sox walk on the wild side carried over to a second game Sunday, as Jake Peavy issued five free passes during the Angels' 6-2 victory before 38,190 fans at Angel Stadium. Peavy had walked just eight over his previous 46 2/3 innings this season. Add that control lapse to the lack of White Sox ...

  • Garza eager not nervous about first start of 2013

    Chicago right-hander Matt Garza insists he's not nervous. He said that the jitters from pitching his way back to the Majors hit him during his first rehab start with Double-A Tennessee and that his return to a big league mound at PNC Park on Tuesday is more about excitement than nerves. Garza last toed a Major League rubber exactly 10 months prior to Tuesday's series opener in ...

  • Chicago Teachers Union Marches For Second Straight Day

    CHICAGO (CBS) – For the second day in a row, opponents of Chicago Public School closures marched near those buildings slated to be shuttered, reports WBBM’s Nancy ...

  • Mets Defeat Cubs 4-3

    CHICAGO (AP) -- Daniel Murphy hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning and the New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs 4-3 on Sunday for their first series win at Wrigley Field since 2007. The Mets won two of three on this trip to Chicago. Murphy hit a leadoff shot against reliever Kyuji Fukikawa (1-1). Murphy has homered twice in three games and has an eight-game hitting streak. Mets ...

  • White Sox Fall To Angels 6-2

    Erick Aybar #2 of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim hits a two RBI double in the third inning against the Chicago White Sox. (Credit: Lisa Blumenfeld, ...


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The Wild

The Wild

Not since the dueling destructive asteroid movies of 98 has there been such sharply etched proof of Hollywoods frequent creative bankruptcy. It was barely a year ago that I sat in a theater watching DreamWorkss Madagascar, a fitfully amusing computer-animated comedy about a group of animals ... ...

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  • Parents Of Children Killed In Newtown Lobby For Gun Control In Illinois

    CHICAGO (CBS) — The parents of three children killed at Sandy Hook School in Newton, Connecticut, stood with Governor Quinn today at the Thompson Center – in support of new legislation to ban the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines in ...

  • Cops Man Hurt In Gang-Related Elgin Shooting

    ELGIN, Ill. (STMW) – A 23-year-old man shot in the leg early Sunday morning in a gang-related attack in northwest suburban Elgin, police said. According to Elgin Police Commander Glenn Theriault, officers were called to the area of Jefferson and Porter streets at 1:35 a.m., where police discovered the shooting victim. He was taken to Sherman Hospital with what police said were not ...

  • Lilac Parade brings back nostalgia

    Dawn and Dane Paulsen, along with their son, Chase, put their pickup truck to good use on the parade route during Sunday's Lilac Parade in ...

  • Dunn says back feeling better returns to lineup

    Email ANAHEIM -- Adam Dunn doesn't want to be "Tommy Tough Guy" as he stated prior to Sunday's series finale with the Angels. He's been there before with the White Sox, where he came back early after having his appendix removed in 2011 and fought through a right oblique strain to try to help the White Sox at the end of last season. The goal was admirable but the results ...

  • Jones dealing with flip side of W-L record this season

    Email ANAHEIM -- Nate Jones' 8-0 mark out of the bullpen in 2012 was the best record in White Sox franchise history posted by a first-year pitcher, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. With an 0-4 ledger after picking up the loss in Saturday's 12-9 setback, Jones is experiencing the darker side of the results. Those losing ways haven't changed Jones' positive attitude. ...

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