Chicago

Chug-Chug encounters a Detroit Red Wings fan and picks up a new habit.

Angelo managed to keep from cracking up while offering a trade deal for safety Chris Harris, but lost it when Seahawks GM John Schneider said he would consider it and asked about the veteran defensive back's skills.

Campbell, who was unemployed for several months before landing his current job in February and missed a couple of credit card payments since the beginning of the year, claims Peña — who has been in the Majors for 11 seasons — is only going to go up in value.

Few Bears fans would have taken away anything negative from the 39-10 demolition of the Vikings Sunday night. That was before the untimely and rather shocking announcement that starting left tackle J'Marcus Webb has played his final down of football and has retired.

Less than 24 hours after the Brewers fell to St. Louis in the NLCS, the Cubs have begun courting Milwaukee first baseman Prince Fielder with a variety of jelly donuts, from traditional raspberry to the more exotic boisenberry and goji flavors.

They are big, immobile and can't block anybody but -- unlike the Bears' offensive line -- the five orange safety cones that head coach Lovie Smith brought to practice late last week allowed the offense to successfully run some plays, which Smith credited for his team's improvement in Sunday night's 39-10 thrashing of the Vikings.

The Cubs sent renewal invoices to their season ticket holder base this weekend and took the unique route of asking several thousand of their customers to just go ahead and make their checks out to "Alfonso Soriano in care of the Chicago Cubs."