While Derrick Rose's five-year, $94 million contract extension was the largest chunk of change committed to by Jerry Reinsdorf, the Bulls and White Sox chairman also opened up the purse strings to keep another of his employees under contract for the next half decade. more ›

Could there be a spot in the White Sox front office for baseball's third-winningest manager? more ›

Currently, the ChiSox pay a seemingly modest $1.5 million annually to the ISFA, which works out to about $18,000 per game or $0.75 per fan who passed through the turnstiles this season. more ›

Kenny Williams pulls another "WTF" rabbit out of his hat. more ›

We sensed this day was coming, but even with that feeling of inevitability we were caught off-guard by the timing of the announcement. more ›

As the White Sox drop yet another game to the AL Central-leading Detroit Tigers and their tragic number quickly approaches zero, the chatter grows louder suggesting that skipper Ozzie Guillen won't be back in 2012. more ›

The schadenfreude over Jay Mariotti's arrest for domestic assault continues with relish from nearly all who've weighed in on the subject. One of the more recent (besides Sun-Times columnist Rick Morrissey, who reminded readers today that Mariotti nicknamed Frank Thomas "the Big Skirt") is Sox and Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, whom Mariotti waged a Quixotian battle with despite Reinsdorf's teams winning six NBA titles and a World Series, making him arguable the most successful local sports owner of our time. more ›

Vinny Del Negro is out as Bulls coach. With a big free agent market coming this off-season, who will the Bulls go after to coach the team now? more ›

With sports talk radio among the industry's few bright spots, some think there may room for some competition to ESPN Radio 1000 and The Score 670. Jeff Smulyan, CEO of Emmis Communications and "father" of sports radio, is exploring options to turn one of Emmis' underperforming FM stations into yet another outlet for sports fans. And if Smulyan turns The Loop 97.9 or Q101 into a sports talk outlet, the White Sox might be among their flagship programming. The Sox are currently broadcast their games on The Score, but their current deal expires after the upcoming 2010 season. The Sox make $3 million on their radio rights, but a move to a new FM station could be much more lucrative for the team with the ninth highest radio audience in MLB. White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf is close friends with Smulyan, and he could decide to partner with Emmis by taking an ownership stake in the new network. He already owns a piece of Comcast SportsNet, which airs some Sox and Bulls games. if a new sports station does take off, don't expect the Sox to be the only big draw however -- with the recent shake-ups in Chicago radio, a number of big names without current radio homes, like Mike North and Steve Dahl, might eventually find themselves behind the mic before too long. more ›

It looks like Bulls and White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf may soon add to his stable of pro sport franchises with the addition of an NHL hockey team. But with the Blackhawks finally in good hands after Bill Wirtz's reign of terror, it's not going to be our local team. more ›

We'll take this rumor with a grain of salt, seeing as it's coming from the NY Post's Peter Vescey, but he's reporting that John Paxson is out as the Bulls' GM soon after next week's trading deadline passes, and that Vinny del Negro will likely be out of a job at the end of the season, too. Vescey expects another round of wooing Doug Collins by Jerry Reinsdorf to fill one or both vacancies. more ›

While the White Sox's starting rotation is still a bit up in the air, the team is hoping to have a crafty left-hander on the mound Opening Day. The Sox have officially invited new President Barack Obama to throw out the ceremonial first pitch on April 6, when the South Siders play host to the Kansas City Royals. more ›

Bulls GM John Paxson is having about as much luck these days as fellow Jerry Reinsdorf employee Kenny Williams. While the Sox have been unable to add a marquee center fielder to their roster, the Bulls keep keep coming up short when trying to land a player who can be the centerpiece of their franchise. more ›

Chicagoist checked our calendars and it's not April Fool's Day, so we're not sure why there are media reports that a contract extansion for White Sox skipper Ozzie Guillen is in the works. At least those are the rumors that WMVP AM 1000's baseball beat reporter Bruce Levine said recently. When asked, Guillen denied any talks of an extension with either Sox GM Kenny Williams or team owner Jerry Reinsdorf. Williams similarly denied contract talks,... more ›

We don't know about you, but we just cannot get that excited for this weekend's Cubs-White Sox series that begins this afternoon at the Cell. The Sox have lost 20 of their last 28 games since the two last met, while the Cubs haven't played much better. The "lovable losers" haven't been so lovable of late, with their manager being suspended for bumbing an ump during an on-field tirade, the now exiles Michael Barrett getting... more ›

Both of our baseball teams made some noise involving pitching on Wednesday at MLB's Winter Meetings, with the Cubs signing a high-priced free agent, while the White Sox traded away one of their starters. The Cubs signed Ted Lilly to a 4-year, $40 million deal — with Jim Hendry in the hospital, no less! "Jim was hooked up to an EKG machine, and we got it done," Lilly's agent explained. Hendry had been admitted to... more ›

First it was Mark Buehrle, who the Sox fined for using the on-field tarp as a Slip-N-Slide during a rain delay on Sunday. Buehrle told the media after the game, "I don't know if I should be talking about this. I got in trouble. … I can't be out there anymore and I can't have any fun." more ›

In an interview that ran in Sunday's Southtown, Frank continued to criticize the organization. He contended that he'd have re-signed with the Sox for $1 million and felt the team owed him that opportunity for all he'd accomplished over the course of 16 years. Considering they just paid him a $3.5 million buyout, why not offer to play for the league minimum if he wanted to stay with the Sox? While Chicagoist was sad to see him go, the reality of the situation is that the Sox are trying to repeat as World Champs and Jim Thome is a much more dependable option at DH. We'd have liked to see Big Frank remain with the team to finish his career, but they just didn't have the roster spot to accomodate him while trying to maintain a Championship-caliber team. He seemed to be in absolute denial of the fact that, at 37 and with his history of injuries in recent years, his playing days are coming to a close. He also blasted the lack of communication between him and management during the off season. Yet it sounds, by his own admission, like they did call him, and he simply refused to return their calls. more ›

The White Sox made their White House visit yesterday, where President Bush congratulated the team on their World Series title. As expected, manager Ozzie Guillen was a no-show because he was vacationing with his family. He noted to reporters, "A lot of managers push their players toward baseball and not enough toward family. Baseball isn't going to be around forever, but family will be." He mentioned how throughout the season, he allowed players away from... more ›

"To the victor goes the spoils", indeed. Jon Garland avoided arbitration this offseason, signing a three-year, $29 million dollar contract with the White Sox yesterday. This year Garland had the breakout season that everyone expected of him when he was drafted by the Cubs then later traded to the Sox. Even though he had a subpar second half, Garland still finished with a record of 18-10 with a 3.50 ERA and a league-leading three... more ›

So, what's a World Series worth? Both Crain's Chicago Business and Forbes have tried to place a value on the White Sox post-World Championship. Crain's pegs their current valuation at $327 million, while Forbes lists the team at $300 million. Just last April, Forbes valued them at $262 million, but states the anticipated increases in TV rights, higher sponsorship fees and better ticket sales as reasons for the increased value. more ›

The White Sox festivities began with a caravan of double decker buses filled with players, White Sox staff and their families. They rode past cheering crowds throughout the South Side, starting at U.S. Cellular and continuing through Bridgeport, Pilsen and Chinatown before entering the Loop for the ticker tape parade along LaSalle. more ›

Already up 3-0 on the Houston Astros in the World Series, the White Sox swept the Astros by winning Game 4 1-0. The lone run was scored by Willie Harris on a single by World Series MVP Jermaine Dye with two outs in the 8th inning. more ›

While the White Sox dismissed the Red Sox and Angels in pretty short order, this series promises to be a much more tightly contested affair. With both teams sporting incredible pitching rotations, the series should be one low-scoring pitchers' dual after another. The Astros look tough with their rotation that includes Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Roy Oswalt. But the White Sox foursome of Jose Contreras, Mark Buehrle, Jon Garland and Freddy Garcia look like they're ready to go toe-to-toe. more ›

Chicagoist remembers being at a Sox game a couple years ago and seeing an old guy in a wheel chair entertaining a crowd while flirting with women a third his age. When we asked an usher who that was, we were told he was former Negro Leagues star Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe -- who died today at 103. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Radcliffe lived in Chicago much of his life. He spent his later years living in a retirement home near U.S. Cellular Field and regularly attended games at the park. In recent years it had become tradition for him to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at White Sox games on his July 7th birthday. more ›

The NBA held its annual draft last night. In recent years, this was the biggest night of the year for the Bulls. This year, however, even John Paxon and Jerry Reinsdorf probably made other plans. Because of a trade for Bryce Drew during the Bulls' Dark Ages and last year's trade for Loul Deng, the Bulls were without a pick in the draft for the first time in their 40 year history. Which was probably... more ›

Reinsdorf became an ordained minister through the Universal Life Church. Yeah, it's the one where anybody can get an Instant Ordination by filling out a web form. Shockingly, ULC ministers are allowed to officiate weddings! Chicagoist thought the only benefit was the "Clergy" placard for illegal campus parking. more ›

While Bulls and White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf recently agreed to an extension with Sox skipper Ozzie Guillen, he seems to be having trouble inking Bulls head coach Scott Skiles to a new deal. more ›

Chicagoist wants to know how the first Bulls playoff game in 7 years ended up opposite the second Passover sedar. You'd think that with David Stern as NBA commissioner and owner Jerry Reinsdorf both Jewish, they'd have a little more sympathy for their Jewish fans! So Chicagoist didn't get to actually see the first Bulls playoff game. And man are we sorry about that! Ben Gordon had a spectacular game. He scored 30 points, including... more ›