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Sox pitching depth, togetherness tested by Danks’ injury

By George Castle on the White Sox

CHICAGO | Where have you gone, Daniel Hudson?

Konerko shiner’s ugly, but bat’s still pretty

By George Castle on the White Sox

CHICAGO | Paul Konerko’s been so good the past few years he probably could hit with one eye.

Marmol tried so hard in 9th, he ends up losing it all

By George Castle on the Cubs

Baseball is chock full of boom-and-bust stories.

Sox risk more red flags by returning Sale to rotation

By George Castle on the White Sox

CHICAGO | The White Sox are performing so many contortions and gyrations about Chris Sale’s health that a knuckleball would be stable and level by comparison.

Mainieri: What if Samardzija had started all along in Cubs system?

By George Castle on the Cubs

Let’s understand Paul Mainieri completely here.

GEORGE CASTLE: Sox's best potential No. 2 hitter is exiled to No. 9...no foolin'

By George Castle on the Sox

CHICAGO | Here's the ideal White Sox lineup:

Humber's perfect streak ends with a bang

By George Castle Times Correspondent

CHICAGO | It was the true quiet before the storm that ended Philip Humber's perfect-game aura.

Hawks find Smith a real monster in covering his goal

BY GEORGE CASTLE Times Correspondent

CHICAGO | The fact the Phoenix Coyotes' Mike Smith stands tall in goal, literally and figuratively, is the biggest challenge to would-be Blackhawks goal-seekers in a low-scoring quarterfinals going into Game 4 Thursday.

Sox better settle for small steps to re-boot start

By George Castle on the White Sox

CHICAGO | No matter how many times the movie "Contact" with Jodie Foster plays on AMC, I can't turn my eyes away. I'm always star-crossed, you might say.

Patience is prudence for Ventura as he repeats history

By George Castle on the White Sox

CHICAGO | The list of young players with whom this city's baseball teams were impatient is too long -- and too sad -- to list here.

On the Cubs: Samardzija takes worker's route to rotation

By George Castle Times Columnist

Jeff Samardzija really got serious this time. So he achieved a serious result perhaps only he and his close-knit family in Valparaiso could have foreseen.

‘Hybrid' rebuilding still focuses on troubled vets in camp

By George Castle on the White Sox

Well, sure, the White Sox and new manager Robin Ventura can engage in the kind of "hybrid" rebuilding in spring training to which general manager Ken Williams referred at SoxFest last month.