Paul Konerko

The City Series — or, more appropriately Monday, the Windy City Series — resumed with a big surprise and the smallest crowd in series history. By the time it was over, the team that keeps wind trends as part of its records naturally was the...

It might take several years — if ever — for many baseball fans to find Roger Clemens innocent in the court of public opinion. But Cubs left fielder Alfonso Soriano says he is pleased a jury cleared Clemens of perjury charges related to...

Are Mark Buehrle's old friends about to start missing him? Sooner or later, it is bound to happen. You don't win 161 games for a franchise and leave at age 32, with a sturdy arm still capable of 200-plus innings, without your name coming up in a...

Say this for the Phillies. They got a World Series title and five consecutive playoff seasons out of their payroll escalation. But are they about to suffer Cubs-like pain? That's the question that faces general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. as he faces a...

Drake didn’t head straight to his next tour stop like some artists do after his show Saturday at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre in Tinley Park. The “Best I Ever Had” rapper kept the party going in the Chicago-area that night an the...

MINNEAPOLIS — You couldn't have blamed Kevin Youkilis if he wanted a little time to collect himself. But baseball doesn't work like that, not during the 162-game marathon. So there was Youkilis on Monday, reporting to Target Field about 24 hours...

1. Nationals (3): While the spotlight has been on the highly debated Stephen Strasburg decision, Davey Johnson's lineup came together in late August and rolls toward the first playoff baseball Washington has seen since 1933. Bryce Harper and friends hit...

Friends regularly tell Dewayne Wise he should write a book about his vagabond baseball career. And what a page-turner it would be. A small-town kid from Chapin, S.C., who turned down a football scholarship to play quarterback at South Carolina so he...

Not one team in the American League Central has a winning record at home this season. If the first-place White Sox can take care of business at U.S. Cellular Field, the division title could be attainable. The Sox are 16-19 at the Cell and 19-13 on the...

This was the kind of September slide the South Side embraced rather than feared, one that brought the White Sox nearer the playoffs instead of farther away. This was right fielder Alex Rios, the team's most valuable player, proving it yet another way by...

Adam Dunn couldn't stop smiling. He was floating, levitating almost, as he talked about how all the years of his baseball career — including one of the longest seasons anyone has ever had — had led to two swings of his bat Monday night. In a...

No-brainer. That's one way to describe the White Sox's trade for Kevin Youkilis. Potential difference-maker. That's another way. By filling their biggest hole with one of the most respected third basemen in baseball, the White Sox may have just...