chicago cubs
George Will on Wrigley Field
A review of ‘A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred’
Mergers: And they all lived happily ever after
From Shania Twain and Frédéric Thiébaud to the Huffington Post and AOL–this year’s best love stories
Baseball club for sale. Only $1 billion.
No one seems to want the Cubs. Could it be that hex?
Eddie Vedder as Steve Bartman
Steve Goodman’s song is still my favourite, but this one’s pretty catchy, too. Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam front man and lifelong Cubbies fan, has recorded his own rally cry for the 2008 playoff run.
A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xBxZGQ1dJk
Small Balls: Thursday June 5, 2008
La première étoile: Tiger Woods. And Phil Mickelson. The world’s best golfer and the world’s second-best golfer will be paired together in the opening two rounds of the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. Should make for some great TV—not to mention a traffic jam in the gallery. Prediction: Woods shoots one under par in the opening round, Lefty goes six under, and the folks at CBS tell us that Tiger is just “waiting for the right time to make his move.”