It was a good week to be …
Cubs players Carlos Zambrano and Michael Barrett. After beating the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday, Zambrano revealed the two combatants hugged it out and cried Saturday while apologizing to each other for a June 1 fight. “I’m still a friend of Michael Barrett,” Zambrano said. “He still calls me brother, and I still call him brother.”
It was a bad week to be …
Cubs manager Lou Piniella. Major League Baseball fined him $4,000 and suspended him for four games after his weekend dirt-kicking tantrum against an umpire. Piniella vowed Monday to change his temperamental ways and said he would send a letter of apology to umpire Mark Wegner for the incident. “I will serve it, and I will learn from this experience,” Piniella said before Monday’s game at Milwaukee. “These things won’t happen again.”
PHOTO OF THE WEEK
Star-struck Chicago
Actor Matt Damon signs autographs on the red carpet Thursday at the Chicago premiere of “Ocean’s Thirteen.” Several hundred screaming fans braved 90-degree heat Thursday for a chance to glimpse a Hollywood star on the red carpet in front of the AMC River East 21 theater complex.
