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Carlton Fisk, Frank “the Big Hurt” Thomas, Tom Seaver, Rich “Goose” Gossage – all names that any Chicago White Sox fan knows by heart. But today, while being interviewed by Washington Nationals booth announcers Bob Carpenter and Rob Dibble, President Barack Obama couldn’t muster up a single name. The Commander-in-Chief, who has referred to himself a “White Sox kid” during the interview, was hard pressed to name a favorite player on a team that has been around since the late 19th century. Obama went on to admit that growing up in Hawaii he was an Oakland Athletics fan and didn’t...

Frank Thomas, who officially announced his retirement on Thursday night, will have his No. 35 retired during an on-field ceremony on Aug. 29, when the White Sox celebrate "Frank Thomas Day" as they host the Yankees at 1:05 p.m. CT. Thomas, 41, earned American League MVP honors twice during his tenure with the White Sox and, during his 19-year career, was considered one of the game's foremost sluggers. Signed by the White Sox in 1989 as their first-round pick (seventh overall) out of Auburn, he made his big league debut just over a year later, and in 1991, his first...

July 16, 2009 A Real Curve for White Sox Fans Matthew May So the President of the United States cannot throw a baseball with any sort of velocity or modicum of athletic grace. So what? He is at best an average basketball player, but it's easy to look great when you aren't being guarded. Certainly it would be gravy for baseball fans if all of our chiefs were able to duplicate what George W. Bush did at Yankee Stadium during the 2001 World Series. It would be lovely if they could fondly reminisce about their own days in the sandlots...

Here is video of a President Obama interview with Bob Costas where he got the name of his favorite team's ballpark wrong, calling it "Cominskey Park," instead of the correct name - "Comiskey Park." Obama claims to be a big White Sox fan, even talking about having gone to games there, while he inexplicably got the name wrong. . . . . . (Watch Video)

Barack Obama with an embarrassing gaffe in an interview on MLB Network last night. While chatting with Bob Costas, Obama clearly calls the White Sox’s former longtime home field “Cominskey Park”. It was no slip of the tongue. (So-called Sox fan calls it “Cominskey” Park. Awkward.) Obama has long claimed loyalty to the White Sox thanks to spending a good deal of his political and professional life on the south side of Chicago.

CHICAGO (CBS) ― The Chicago White Sox announced Sunday evening it has canceled Monday's season opener against the Kansas City Royals because of inclement weather. The White Sox postponed Monday's 1:05 p.m. game because of forecasted snow, cold and high winds, according to a release from the team. The game is rescheduled for 1:05 p.m. Tuesday. All opening day festivities will still take place Tuesday, the release said. One can see why the event was cancelled. It's really coming down at U.S. Cellular Field Sunday night. And the gloomy, cold weather is dampening the spirits of a lot of White...

The Chicago White Sox are feeling the love of the Obama-Nation. Despite the fact that a sizeable portion of their fan base did not vote for the current President, the team is planning on celebrating the election of their new hometown hero with an Obama-themed cap that could be ready by the start of spring training next month.Brooks Boyer, the team's vice president and chief marketing officer, commented: “We’re very excited. This is somebody who’s obviously a White Sox fan, but more importantly, really embraces and embodies the attributes of our brand: the notions of pride, passion and tradition...

Let's hear a little baseball chatter here! AL EAST Tampa Bay leads division by a game over Boston with the two teams squaring off in a three game series starting tonight. Yankees are in fourth, a half game behind the Blue Jays--and the last game at Yankee Stadium is set for Sunday night on ESPN. AL CENTRAL/WEST White Sox lead Twins by 1.5 games. Angels clinched the west and lead Texas by a mere 19.5 games. Curse of Hillary? The Obama campaign reminds me of the Yanks' fortune this year. Down down down Another close race in the NL EAST...

We all knew Barack Obama is a White Sox fan, but the presumed Democratic presidential nominee took it a bit further in an interview with ESPN. Obama joked about the stereotype of Cubs fans, who probably are tired of being described as partying people-watchers instead of serious baseball fans. "You go to Wrigley Field, you have a beer, beautiful people up there," Obama said, according to transcripts released by ESPN. "People aren't watching the game. It's not serious. White Sox, that's baseball." The interview, which took place Wednesday in Greensboro, N.C., will be aired on SportsCenter tonight at 5. Here...

CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox will start weeknight home games at 7:11 p.m. as part of a sponsorship deal with the 7-Eleven convenience store chain. White Sox spokesman Scott Reifert would not disclose the value of the three-year deal with the Dallas company Wednesday but said the revenue probably will be reinvested in the baseball team or ballpark. The new start time hardly represents a significant change since many weeknight games at U.S. Cellular Field already start at 7:07 p.m. "We're just talking about four minutes, so it's not much of an inconvenience for the fans," Reifert said. Margaret...

After the Chicago White Sox were eliminated from participating in post season play, many fans were asking "why?" Why did the team with the most talent in the game play mediocre baseball for the second half of the season? How did a team that was 27 games over the .500 mark in July reverse course so quickly and end up being one of the greatest disappointments in baseball history? Who was responsible for this monumental collapse of a team that was supposed to repeat as World Series Champions? I think I have the answer to these questions, but it has...

Recent months have seen a flurry of books about the highly controversial 1919 World Series and the so-called “Black Sox.” The most notable are Red Legs and Black Sox by Dr. Susan Dellinger; and Burying the Black Sox by Gene Carney. Both are highly informative books that were a joy to read and have renewed my interest in “all things Black Sox.” I recently reread the Melvin Durslag Sporting News interview of Chick Gandil from 1956. Gandil was often cast as a ringleader of the plot to throw the 1919 World Series. Thirty seven years later, at age 69, he...

(first post) OK, they won ugly tonight. We left a ton of runners on base- Couldn't lay down a bunt- Our leadoff man went 0 for 4- They won on TB's horrible errors- But now they are a game and half up on the Twinkies and only 4 and half behind Detroit. I'll take them anyway we can get em. It would be nice to get the sweep before having to play a suddenly hot KC and the Red Sox at Boston... ----------------------- (liberal lefty cub fan) Seems like just yesterday doesn't it? I mean like when you were in...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Just to eliminate any confusion, let's get something straight. There is no way -- not even with a 40-homer, 100-RBI season on the horizon -- that Frank Thomas was returning in 2006 for one more year with the White Sox. This was a franchise that had spent the previous five years counting down the days, minutes and seconds to the instant Thomas and his catalog of contracts finally would be off the books. It was a divorce that was inevitable -- and it had nothing to do with sickness or health. When the dirty laundry got aired...

...Baseball fans thirsty for a good pennant race, a legit battle among potential world champions, should keep their eyes glued to the AL Central this September. Three of the five best teams in baseball are duking it out for two spots. Actually, no need to wait until September. The final leg of the race begins Wednesday at Yankee Stadium, where the team with the best record in baseball, the Detroit Tigers, takes on the playoff-bound Yanks in the first of a three-game set. Next into the Bronx? The Minnesota Twins, who have baseball's best record since June 10 (49-20) and...

The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season should be slightly less active than originally predicted, federal forecasters said Tuesday. Forecasters now expect there to be 12 to 15 named storms and seven to nine hurricanes, the National Hurricane Center and other National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agencies said. Three or four could be major hurricanes with sustained winds of at least 111 mph, forecasters said. Government scientists made their first prediction in May, saying the season could produce 13 to 16 named storms, and eight to 10 hurricanes, four to six of which could become major. There have been only three tropical...

Here we go....Most teams have 50 or 51 games to go after today's games.....here is how things are shaping up baseball fans.... 2006 American League Standings EAST W L PCT GB HOME ROAD RS RA STRK L10 NY Yankees 65 42 .607 - 36-19 29-23 595 503 Lost 1 8-2 Boston 65 44 .596 1 35-17 30-27 600 540 Lost 1 4-6 Toronto 57 53 .518 9.5 35-23 22-30 574 545 Lost 7 1-9 Baltimore 50 61 .450 17 30-30 20-31 538 618 Won 1 5-5 Tampa Bay 46 65 .414 21 28-26 18-39 492 599 Won 1 4-6 CENTRAL...

CHICAGO, June 30 (UPI) -- Chicago White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen, fined for using a gay slur against a columnist, says he'll spend an off-day at the Gay Games on July 17. He also plans to attend sensitivity training sessions soon, the Chicago Sun- Times reported. Guillen said he had already planned to attend the Gay Games, and his visit is not related to the trouble he got into with Major League Baseball for calling Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti a "fag" during a locker room interview. Guillen has apologized.

Major League Baseball tapped the brakes Thursday on Ozzie Guillen when it levied separate penalties against the White Sox manager for two incidents. Guillen accepted a one-game suspension that he served Thursday night and an undisclosed fine for the "internal actions" of reliever David Riske, who hit St. Louis' Chris Duncan in Tuesday's game after warnings had been issued to both teams. But the suspension paled in comparison to the attention given to MLB's decision to fine Guillen and order him to attend sensitivity training for using a derogatory term for homosexuals directed at Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti. "The commissioner...

Sometimes I get the feeling that what I do for a living is a complete mystery to people.Mostly I get this feeling when readers tell me to stick to the facts and stop introducing opinion into my columns. So it was an uphill battle even before Ozzie Guillen and Jay Mariotti started debating the professional obligations of a columnist. The other day, the White Sox manager called the Sun-Times sports columnist a derogatory term for a homosexual, which is both inexcusable and indefensible, especially given Guillen's history. In front of reporters last year, Guillen called out to a friend of...