Jose Valentin

It's Opening Day, which means it should start snowing any minute now. For the benefit of all of you stuck at work, we're going to try to bring you live play-by-play commentary of both games today. It might get a little hectic when the two games overlap,...

It was a Sunday on which the White Sox managed just six hits and one run, the kind of offensive production that they have put up too often this season. But this was different. They went through the three-game weekend series against the Cubs hitting .272,...

The White Sox's scoreless drought ended after 11 innings. But their winless drought is still alive. OK, it's only two games. But they were games co-aces Mark Buehrle and Bartolo Colon started against the unheralded—and that's putting it nicely—combo...

Can you tell me when Kenny Williams is going to quit trying to prove himself right by continuing to play Billy Koch? Isn't it about time that he swallows his pride and admits that he made a terrible decision trading Koch for Keith Foulke? --Scott Pulcini,...

After hitting a two-out, 10th-inning grand slam to lead the White Sox to a 7-3 win over the Cubs on Friday, Carlos Lee found himself in the middle of a Sox convention at home plate. "That's the way we should play every day," Lee said. "With that kind...

Jose Valentin looked into the cameras and pleaded not guilty. No, he said, he wasn't mimicking Ricky Gutierrez when he raised his right arm to celebrate his seventh-inning home run Friday in the White Sox's 7-2 victory over the Cubs. And no, he wasn't...

Before Sunday's 9-4 victory over the Cubs, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen explained that a large share of his job consists of teaching baseball skills that some fans assume players learn before they reach the big leagues. "I teach every day," Guillen...

It was a day to exhale, sit back in the comfy chair and put the antacids back in the medicine cabinet. The White Sox crushed Kansas City 14-0 Saturday afternoon at Kaufmann Stadium, ending a season-opening stretch of games that only a masochist could...

The 2003 salaries for the 827 major league baseball players on opening day rosters and disabled lists. Figures were obtained by The Associated Press from management and player sources and include salaries and pro-rated shares of signing bonuses and...

The Cubs haven't been to a World Series in 55 years, while the White Sox have been Series-free for the last 41 years. That fact of life tends to magnify the importance of the crosstown classic, and first-time participants understand that reality right...

It may be a little early to be scoreboard-watching, but White Sox manager Jerry Manuel found himself glancing at the Jumbotron on Sunday afternoon at the Coliseum. Rather than checking out the American League scores, however, Manuel was trying to avert...

The first two innings of Saturday's 7-3 White Sox victory over the Yankees were like those midsummer company softball games with balls flying all over the place—some hit, some thrown. Once everything settled down, however, Mark Buehrle turned in the Sox'...