Chicago White Sox News

John Danks finally gets to start a game in Texas — for the Chicago White Sox against the team that drafted him in the first round four years ago. The 22-year-old left-hander and Texas native was the Rangers’ top pitching prospect when they traded the left-hander for Brandon McCarthy last winter, two days before Christmas.

Marlon Byrd hit a tiebreaking single in eighth inning and the Texas Rangers beat the Chicago White Sox 4-3 on Tuesday night for their third straight win. Ian Kinsler and Gerald Laird homered for the Rangers, who have won five of their last seven. Chicago’s Jim Thome homered to move within six of becoming the [...]

Confetti fell and euphoria reigned as manager Ozzie Guillen and his team paraded through the streets after the Chicago White Sox won the World Series for the first time in 88 years. That day less than two years ago seems so long ago now. In a stunning and swift collapse, the White Sox have plummeted [...]

The Chicago White Sox are likely to make a big effort to sign Torii Hunter if he isn’t re-signed by…

World Series afterglows sure don’t burn like they used to. In the 22 months since they were run over by the…

Justin Verlander found his groove on the mound, and Mike Mussina may have found a place on the bench. Verlander shut down the New York Yankees with his best stuff since throwing a no-hitter while Detroit roughed up Mussina and a couple of relievers in a 16-0 win over New York on Monday night. [...]

Charles Albert “Chuck” Comiskey II, grandson and namesake of the Chicago White Sox founder and a former front-office executive and co-owner during the “Go Go Sox” years in the 1950s, has died. He was 81. Comiskey died in his sleep Sunday at his home in this western Chicago suburb, according to the Gibbons Elliston Funeral [...]

Even though he has become a part-time player for the Texas Rangers since joining the 600-homer club, Sammy Sosa still plans for his comeback to be longer than one season. “If it’s not here, it will be somewhere else, believe me,” said Sosa, who has started only 10 of the Rangers’ last 26 games. “I [...]

Jose Contreras’ first victory as a starter in more than two months came courtesy of an unexpected power outburst from his White Sox teammates. With Chicago trailing Tampa Bay 4-0 headed into the bottom of the seventh Monday, A.J. Pierzynski, Jermaine Dye and Juan Uribe hit consecutive homers off Edwin Jackson, who’d sailed through the [...]

Jose Contreras got his first win as a starter in two months and rookie Josh Fields put the White Sox ahead with Chicago’s fourth home run of the seventh inning in a 5-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on Monday. Contreras (7-16), who leads the major leagues in losses, had dropped nine straight [...]