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Chris De Luca: They stopped playing postseason baseball in the Midwest on Monday. No more Cubs. No more Brewers. And now no more White Sox.
A.J. Pierzynski looked around the clubhouse and started to smile. ''One word to describe this year? Roller coaster,'' the White Sox catcher said without a pause.
In the bitter end, the difference might have been Brian Roberts, after all. Maybe he wouldn't have overcome the walks in Game 1 or the errors in Game 2, but the Cubs' woeful lack of playoff hitting comes down to two big deficiencies: First, they have no left-handed hitters whom opponents respect. The second one is that the Cubs aren't built to hit in the postseason.
Andrew Herrmann: Jose Cardenal roamed the Wrigley Field outfield in the 1970s, a favorite with a lot of fans but especially so for certain females -- despite a bushy afro that, bursting from beneath his Cubbie ball cap, made him look more like Bozo than a ballplayer.
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There's Steve, the Richard Pryor look-alike, who always has a grin on his face and carries a shabby notebook he says is part of a plan to get his GED. Or the lady with the hair that sticks straight up who rarely utters a word to anyone. Last week, they ate their final meal at the Salvation Army's Tom Seay Center in Uptown, a bustling soup kitchen and shelter that first opened its doors to the needy some 30 years ago.
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sued the talk show host for defamation, claiming Winfrey falsely
suggested she tried to cover up abuse at the school. In widely reported remarks last year, Winfrey suggested that Nomvuyo
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and tried to cover it up, Mzamane says in the lawsuit. Her lawsuit seeks more than $250,000 on five defamation counts.
Wall Street suffered through another extraordinary and traumatic session Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials plunging as much as 800 points -- their largest one-day point drop -- before recovering to close with a loss of 370. The catalyst for the selling, which also took the Dow below 10,000 for the first time in four years, was investors' growing despair that the spreading credit crisis will take a heavy toll around the world.
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