CAUTION: What you are about to read may make some sense to a majority of you and offend only members of Congress. You know I was just pondering this thought...ok, daydreaming. Is it too late to run for Congress? I mean...what steps do I have to take to run anyway? Hey, I can do this! Some say I have...

From today's Office of Reading From a homily on the Gospels by Gregory the Great, pope She longed for Christ, though she thought he had been taken away When Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and did not find the Lord’s body, she thought it had been taken away and so informed the disciples. After the...

This is Ken Williams' time of year.  The calendar reads late July, and the White Sox general manager is seated at the table, smile on his mug, like there's not a damn thing in his hand. The ultimate poker face. ''[Manager Ozzie Guillen] said he's going to win the World Series with this tea...

Alfonso Soriano took a major step toward a return to the lineup this week when he batted three times Monday in a minor-league rehab game for rookie-A Mesa. But the Cubs' leadoff man was assigned for at least one more rehab game tonight in Tucson for visiting Iowa. ''I made a couple of hard swings, h...

He was doing his best to sound optimistic and committed to helping his team as a DH and first baseman, but the more you listened to Jorge Posada at his locker Monday, the more you came away thinking we have seen the last of him in 2008 wrote New York Daily News baseball columnist John Harper. And th...

Mattel has triumphed in a copyright case against the maker of the popular Bratz dolls, MGA Entertainment. See Mattel's press release. MGA Entertainment plans to file an appeal. [MGA Entertainment press release]. Hat tip to BBC News. [JH]...

At 36, for the first time in his career, Paul Lo Duca has become an everyday starting first baseman. All it took was the emergence of Jesús Flores at catcher, the wrist injury to starting first baseman Nick Johnson, the various maladies of backup first baseman Young, and the left calf strain ...

The Detroit Tigers will start Zach Miner Monday night in Kansas City for the first time this season. They still think of him as a bullpen candidate, though. When asked Sunday why Miner was moved from the rotation to relief in the first place, manager Jim Leyland said it was because of his sinker. &q...

Milwaukee made its big move to take the pot in this year's wild card hand by trading five players to Cleveland for an ace, last year's American League Cy Young winner CC Sabathia. The Marlins believe they have flipped their hole card that says ``Josh Johnson. ''Josh Johnson is a big trade for us,'' ...

So, settle back and swallow the reality that Kyle Orton should be — and will be, I predict — the latest glorified mannequin to fill the traditional black hole at Halas Hall wrote Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti. I say that not because I have any particular confidence in Orton, w...