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The Cubs tendered contracts to all but one of their arbitration-eligible players Saturday, and rehabbing left-hander Neal Cotts will be offered a minor-league contract if he doesn't sign elsewhere.

The Cubs were expected to tender contracts to eight of their nine arbitration-eligible players, and they expect to re-sign the lone exception, pitcher Neal Cotts.

S cholfield Select Pre-Owned Center opened Friday in the former Saturn dealership at 8800 W. Central.

This week, the arbitration deadline came and went with few surprises. One player that became an unprotected free agent intrigues me as an option for the Chicago Cubs.

Several major league baseball players will be in Wichita Saturday to make wishes come true.

After winning the NL Rookie of the Year award in 2008, Soto looked lost in 2009, hitting only .218 with 11 HR's .A He was banged up during the year, only playing in 102 games versus 141 in 2008 and could never get going at the plate.A The Cubs are hoping that Rudy Jaramillo can turn him around, but if not the Cubs could turn to someone else.

ArtAID. You have to see it to believe it. Every year I go to many local events, but some of them are standouts.

Albert Pujols probably will be a unanimous, deserving MVP winner. But take a look at the season Derrek Lee had -- the best of his career other than 2005, when he finished third in MVP voting.

Before the first pitch of the NLDS is thrown, here's one final look a Cubs position players for 2009 and include a nugget or two on their season.

The city of Chicago will find out Friday if it will be awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Throughout the fantasy baseball season, some of the most aggravating players can be those stuck in position battles with teammates.

Port Dover's John Axford made his second and third big league appearances Monday and Tuesday, and both were a marked improvement from the first.

How bizarre are things with these 2009 Cubs ? On the heels of a 7-4 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers , follow us through the maze of wackiness that is the Cubs , and maybe you?ll get a better understanding.

Andres Blanco's three hits and two RBI Sunday led the Chicago Cubs to a 5-2 win over Cincinnati.

Just call him Steady Teddy. If there's one player on the Cubs you can count on to do the same thing year after year, it's lefty Ted Lilly .

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Great, The Chicago Cubs took the rubber game of their three-game weekend set with Cincinnati Sunday, winning 5-2. Derrek Lee had three hits, including his 32nd home run of the season, and scored twice.

Ted Lilly wouldn't give in with men on base, kept the runners from scoring and, as usual, gave the Chicago Cubs a chance to win.

The back end of the Cubs' lineup had Ted Lilly's back on Sunday. Light-hitting part-timers Koyie Hill and Andres Blanco broke a scoreless fourth-inning tie with RBI hits, and Lilly notched another masterful home start, as the Cubs topped the Reds, 5-2. Chicago improved to 8-4 in September.

''This game will humble you in a minute,'' Soto said Friday after driving in two runs with his first homer since Aug.

Micah Hoffpauir homered and knocked in two runs and Koyie Hill added two RBI, as the Chicago Cubs downed Pittsburgh, 8-5, in the finale of a three-game set from PNC Park.