Friday, January 17, 2025

Nov. 09 issue is out: Cubs sign Kenny Powers; Bears lineman struggle, and much...

Great news: The Heckler's November issue has hit the streets. As usual, it's packed full of unbelievable Chicago sports news.

Hendry deals Bradley for CTA fare cards

With the MLB General Managers meetings taking place at the luxurious O'Hare Hilton, everyone knew that trading clubhouse cancer Milton Bradley was Cubs GM Jim Hendry's first priority.

Reinsdorf doesn’t understand how Ricketts can love the team he now owns

Cubs owner Tom Ricketts is a longtime fan of his new ballclub, a fact that doesn't sit well with crosstown front office man Jerry Reinsdorf.

Report: Ricketts firing Cubs staffers Ari Gold-style

Longtime Cubs staffers today learned the hard way that new owner Tom Ricketts is a big fan of the HBO show "Entourage," specifically the Ari Gold character played by Jeremy Piven who this season let staffers at a newly acquired company know they were fired by blasting them with a paintball gun.

Woo-Woo in History: Halloween 2008

Even when dressed up for Halloween, Ronnie Woo-Woo Wickers can't shake his Cubs' superfan persona.

Ricketts badly injured in freak accident in first day as Cubs owner

Longtime North Side fans won't be surprised to learn that another "Cubbie occurrence" struck their favorite team earlier this week when Tom Ricketts took a terrible spill walking to work on the first day as the new Cubs' owner.

Under McGwire, Cardinals hitters to abandon doubles and triples

While much has been made of the steroid-injecting past of new hitting coach Mark McGwire, inside sources suggest that the team has a deeper strategy up its sleeve.