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White Sox hurler Jake Peavy had an outstanding minor league outing Friday night and is hoping to return to the big league team's rotation as early as next week. It will be his first appearance with the White Sox since last summer when he had a tendon and muscles in his throwing shoulder reattached by a surgery no baseball player had ever received. But it's an even rarer procedure that's now got him at the top of his game.

Thanks to an early postseason exit, the Blackhawks will have plenty of spare time this offseason. This is how they plan to spend it.

Mired in an early season attendance slump, the Cubs announced Friday a new, reasonably priced beer and hot dog promotion aimed at drawing more fans to Wrigley Field, marking the first time the franchise has ever featured reasonably priced concessions.

Tom Ricketts has made it a priority to find a way to generate the revenue necessary to renovate aging Wrigley Field. He tried it through taxes, extra advertisements inside and outside the ballpark, and has even sent his rarely mentioned brother, Peter, to rob a string of banks in Northwest Indiana; but it has all been to no avail.

By now the desire of millions of baseball fans was to know how far that homer flew, and the craving for such knowledge was relentless. Ten years ago, a major airline paid a huge chunk of change to the tape measure industry to sponsor the question. However, the discovery in February of hollowed bats and pine tar in the airline’s hangars abruptly ended its sponsoring by court order.

Jerry Angelo's reputation for overseeing poor drafts is sure to continue at least another year as the Bears GM learned just a few hours ago that the 2011 NFL Draft is being held this evening.