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Chicago is one of eleven U.S. cities to have teams from the five major American professional team sports (baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and soccer). Chicago has been named as the "Best Sports City" by Sporting News three times: 1993, 2006, and 2010. Chicago was a candidate city for the 2016 Summer Olympics but lost to Rio de Janeiro. [1]
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Chicago Sports Network's flagship program is The Chicago Lead, a daily sports program covering all Chicago sports teams including local college and high school sports. In addition, the network also airs The Big College Football Show and The Big Pro Football Show , focusing on college football and the National Football League , respectively.
The following Major League Baseball players appeared as strikebreakers during spring training in 1995, crossing picket lines during the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike. Some had not yet been placed on a 40-man roster , and as such were not eligible to join the MLBPA at the time of the strike, while others were former MLB players who had ...
The 2024 high school baseball season is underway in Missouri. Check out some of the talent in the Boone County area. Here are 20 high school baseball players to watch in Boone County this season
Ninety years ago today, the biggest names in baseball played against each other for the first time. The annual tradition was created by the Tribune’s sports editor. “This is an announcement of ...
In Chicago, Tribune Media owned the WGN radio station (720 AM) and WGN-TV (Channel 9). Tribune Company also owned the Los Angeles Times—which displaced the Tribune as the company's largest property—and the Chicago Cubs baseball team. The Cubs were sold in 2009;the newspapers spun off in 2014 as Tribune Publishing.
NBC Sports Chicago Plus was the secondary feed used to resolve scheduling conflicts when two teams played at the same time, with a tertiary network, NBC Sports Chicago Plus 2', activated occasionally when it had all four teams in play. The extra channels also carried alternate content from NBC Sports or formerly, FSN.