Former manager of the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs Lee Elia -- perhaps most famous for his rant directed at Cubs ...

Elia’s professional baseball career spanned more than 50 years as a player, coach, manager and executive, but his name will ...

Elia spent a half-century in professional baseball as a player, coach and scout. His rant while managing the Cubs is still ...

But as the Sox and Cubs get set to butt heads this weekend for the 147th time in regular season baseball history, I’ve found it hard to feel the same passion for the rivalry that I felt in my ...

Lee Elia, who managed the Cubs and Phillies in a pro baseball career that lasted more than 50 years as a coach and player, ...

Baseball lifer Lee Elia, who managed the Phillies and Cubs and went on one of baseball’s legendary rants, died Wednesday at ...

The specialness of the Cubs is that they are burdened by affection, while, alas, the White Sox struggle to step up from being uninvited guests, as disconnected as an in-law with a foot out the door.

The Cubs enter July in good position to make the postseason. The outlook for the White Sox isn’t quite as rosy, but neither is the short-term goal.

So one could say that Pope Leo is both a Cubs and White Sox fan as a matter of history and culture. Now, I can almost hear readers expressing skepticism, if not contempt, at my theory. However ...

The Cubs still had two chances to win one game, and the idea of a Cubs-Red Sox World Series was still very much in play. So, Game 6. The Cubs were five outs from the World Series, leading 3-0 with ...

The team put up a message on the video board at Rate Field just like the Cubs did, only noting the pope is a Sox fan. The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news — fast .