Chicago Cubs

The Washington Nationals on Tuesday forced a game 7 against the Houston Astros tonight, following a clutch performance by Stephen Strausburg and a handful of key home runs. Both teams will face off in the 2019 MLB season's last game tonight and last-minute decision makers can score a deal on...

At last season’s close, NBA broadcasters sulked to the bus, heads down, defeated. Across Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)’s ABC and ESPN, NBA TV and Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX)’s TNT, the league’s regular-season average viewership had fallen 6 percent year-over-year. TNT, in...

It was already an epic 12 months for sports championships, even before Tom Brady and the New England Patriots overcame a 25-point deficit to beat the Atlanta Falcons 34–28 in Super Bowl LI Sunday night. Brady earned himself his fifth Super Bowl win and was named as the game's Most...

2016 was certainly a year of surprises. Benzinga recently conducted a Twitter Inc (NASDAQ: TWTR) poll to determine the biggest shockers of 2016. Donald Trump Wins Election Donald Trump winning the presidential election was overwhelmingly the biggest shock according to the poll, garnering 76...

The north side of Chicago waited more than a century for their baseball team to be crowned champions. The Chicago Cubs needed an extra inning and a seven games to defeat the Cleveland Indians in what could go down as one of the greatest games in history. The last time the Cubs were champions...

Way back in 1989, the hit movie “Back to the Future: Part II” gave the world a glimpse into how things might look 26 years into the future. Of course, 26 years into the future at the time was the year 2015. Incredibly, the movie has been eerily accurate in a number of its seemingly...

For the first time in 108 years, the Chicago Cubs are World Series champions. Social media was buzzing throughout the dramatic game seven and into the all-night celebration for the Cubs and their fans. Here’s a look at eight of the best tweets. While Cubs and Indians fans were on the edge...

The 2016 Major League Baseball season will go down in history and could finally be the year Chicago Cubs fans have waited for so long. Remarkably, the Cubs have come back from a 3-1 deficit in the World Series to force a Game 7 tonight in Cleveland. 108 Years Vs. 68 Years Tickets to witness...

As baseball fans gear up for game three of the World Series, currently tied at 1–1, tickets in Chicago are shattering records on the resale market. Super Bowl prices are popping up as the Cubs try to break its 108-year-old curse. Friday marks the Cubs first Fall Classic game at home since...

One long-suffering franchise will be on the receiving end of a World Series championship this season. The Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs will meet in the 112th edition of the World Series, and with the two teams combining for a 176-year championship drought, massive demand for World Series...

108 years is a long time. In one of the most prolific games this postseason, Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers fended off a late-game surge from the Washington Nationals to clinch a berth in the 2016 National League Championship Series. They'll now face the Chicago Cubs for rights...

The Chicago Cubs are going for history this October looking for their first World Series victory since 1908, and fans will be paying historic prices to be a part of the action at Wrigley Field. The National League Division Series will begin next Friday, October 7 on the north side of Chicago....

On this day in 1981, Tribune Publishing Co (NYSE: TPUB) -- then known as Tribune Co -- bought the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field for a lowly $20 million. The company sold the team to the Ricketts family in 2009. Tribune recently turned down a takeover offer from Gannett Co Inc (NYSE: GCI) that...

Ricketts family got an approval to buy Chicago Cubs, Major League Baseball club, from Tribune Co. for $825M. Thomas Ricketts will take control of the club at the end of the month, when the deal closes.