Morandini, family move to Pa. as manager’s career progresses

The true measure of how serious Mickey Morandini is about managing will be his family’s upcoming new address.

Maybe Dunn’s finally winning his own mind game

CHICAGO | Three weeks ago, Adam Dunn hit around .100 and wasn’t much better talking about it.

Goalies’ downers just blips in dominating Hawks season

CHICAGO | Cynics might have dived cackling toward the United Center ice like flesh-hungry crows in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” halfway through the first period Sunday.

GEORGE CASTLE: Pardon the interruption, The Roar is back at the UC

CHICAGO | The Roar returned, way late compared to other years on an Arctic night, but it was there in midseason form.

Cubs duel Red Sox in ’03 World Series in ‘Alou Makes the Catch’

Times baseball writer George Castle’s 11th book presents 10 “What if’s” in Cubs history. “Alou Makes the Catch: An Alternative History of the Chicago Cubs” plays off real persons and events to show how the star-crossed team’s championship drought might have been broken on several occasions s…

GEORGE CASTLE: Youkilis would be good for Cubs, Sox – yet doesn’t fit anymore

The one convergence for our baseball teams is a goateed former OBP guru who was a folk hero with his last two teams and would be once again if he played in Wrigley Field.

GEORGE CASTLE: Ventura still on learning curve through September collapse

Just like his large cadre of rookie pitchers, Robin Ventura experienced growth during 2012.

GEORGE CASTLE: Is ‘Shark’ a Cubs leader? Teammate says probably

Turns out Andre Dawson wasn’t talking out of unlit regions.

Short memory, focus necessity for Sox stretch drive

CHICAGO| A short memory with a laser focus.

GEORGE CASTLE: Drooping Sox OBP boosts Royals, other foes

CHICAGO | Turns out it wasn’t all Jeremy (The Ryan Express) Guthrie and Bruce (Cy) Chen causing those sickly White Sox offensive numbers the past two weeks against the Kansas City (Dynasty) Royals.

GEORGE CASTLE: ‘Shark,’ Prior like 2 ships passing in night

CHICAGO | Larry Rothschild’s busy enough coaching the New York Yankees’ pitching staff.

GEORGE CASTLE: Theo-Jed still in Rebuilding 101 class

Beware of young pitchers traded near the deadline by the Atlanta Braves.

GEORGE CASTLE: Who’s No 1? More importantly, who’s No. 3 in Sox lineup?

CHICAGO | Adam Dunn’s major-league-leading 30 homers, a year after he endured the worst season ever by an everyday player, says most of it.

GEORGE CASTLE: Pitching must top off rebuilding process: A-Ram

The man who almost single-handedly won the last Cubs postseason victory has the right to analyze what the North Siders need to finally win another one, after nine consecutive losses.

Soriano had right attitude, wrong execution

Too bad you don’t get accolades from the paying customers for your clubhouse presence. It’s out of sight, and thus out of mind.

GEORGE CASTLE: Samardzija won’t employ hindsight to wonder ‘what if?’

Jeff Samardzija pitches tonight indoors away from the Phoenix heat, charged with dual mundane tasks: stopping another Cubs loss from mushrooming into 2012’s umpteenth mega-skid and getting his 5-5 record above .500.

E.C.’s Repko endures bad timing breaking into Red Sox outfield

East Chicago native Jason Repko had good timing in getting back to the majors two years ago as a Minnesota Twins’ backup outfielder, currying the favor of manager Ron Gardenhire.