Tom Ricketts

Tom Ricketts has said that his family and bid team have an "absolute commitment" to diversity and inclusion if they succeed in buying Chelsea. The Ricketts family, which owns the Chicago Cubs, has made the shortlist of bidders to buy the club. But there are concerns over the bid after...

Tom Ricketts has declared an “absolute commitment” to diversity and inclusion in his family’s bid to buy Chelsea.The Chicago Cubs co-chairman has responded directly to supporter unrest over the Ricketts family’s attempt to purchase the club.Supporters organised a protest at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, while the Chelsea Supporters’ Trust had earlier revealed a lack of confidence in the Ricketts family’s candidacy to buy the Blues from Roman Abramovich.Tom Ricketts confirmed meetings with Chelsea Supporters’ Trust, and pledged to sit down with more fans in a bid to prove his family’s suitability to take over at the west London club.“Over the...

Paul Canoville, Chelsea’s first black player, gave potential Blues buyer Tom Ricketts a “severe grilling” on his family’s historic racism issues.Ricketts asked to meet with Canoville and apologised for his father Joe branding Muslims “my enemy” in leaked emails from 2019.Canoville was left impressed by Chicago Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts’ determination to build inclusion and diversity programs should his bid to buy Chelsea prove successful.Gary Trowsdale, a patron of the Paul Canoville Foundation, attended the meeting at Stamford Bridge last week, and explained how the American earned their respect amid a candid discussion.Canoville now hopes to meet personally with Chelsea’s...

The billionaire owners of the Chicago Cubs are planning to meet with fans of the Chelsea soccer team in a bid to defuse public outcry over claims they are racist and should be denied a chance to buy the west London club. Tom Ricketts, the son of Joe Ricketts, will reportedly meet representatives of two fan groups in London on Wednesday after Chelsea supporters waged a social media campaign opposing the family’s proposed bid to own the club. The hashtag #NoToRicketts was trending on Twitter as outraged fans accused the family of harboring Islamophobic and racist sentiments. “Our family rejects any form of...

While we feverishly track possible reunion rumors (Anthony Rizzo? Kyle Schwarber?), there is also the matter of the big free agent pursuit we KNOW the Cubs are in on: Japanese slugger Seiya Suzuki. The Cubs had a much-confirmed meeting with Suzuki last night, and although we still don’t have a...

No Major League Baseball owner looks particularly good right now. The lockout is currently closing in on 100 days with no signs of ending. Every single one of them should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen. However, a new report makes Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts look even worse.

Tom Ricketts, Chairman of the Chicago Cubs, has transformed the North-side of Chicago, elevating the status of the Chicago Cubs and making baseball the sport of Chicago’s community. Brought on in 2009, Tom Ricketts implemented his leadership style, setting goals, providing strategic direction, and allowing the talent to speak...

No matter how you choose to perceive Tom Ricketts’ recent comments on the budget and intentions of spending this winter regarding the free agency class, it’s understandable in any right. If you believe the Chicago Cubs will continue to seek out the middle of the pack, high potential/upside for low cost players, one couldn’t exactly judge you. However, there is room for the optimistic mind to enter this conversation, as well.

CHICAGO — As the Chicago Cubs embarked on a roster overhaul this summer that saw star players and World Series champions traded, team Chairman Tom Ricketts largely remained silent through the franchise-altering transition. In a letter Friday, Ricketts assures Cubs fans that “we have the resources necessary to compete in...

Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts sent an email to Cubs fans Friday and I reproduce it here in its entirety, so you can read it if you weren’t on the recipient list. I’ll follow with some comments. Dear Cubs Fans,. In our 12 years together, never have we experienced so many...

For the most part, I am completely neutral about fluffy messages that a team sends out to fans. Some folks take too much positive from them, and some folks get really pissed off for no reason. I just don’t really see much reaction to react strongly in either direction. Anyway,...

Three full offseasons have elapsed since the Cubs signed Yu Darvish to a six-year contract, and the only multiyear arrangement they’ve signed with a free agent in the offseasons since was a two-year, $5M deal to utilityman Daniel Descalso. Even including the in-season three-year contract Craig Kimbrel signed in 2019, the Cubs’ total free-agent expenditures over the past three years comes to just under $82M — about 65 percent of the total figure they gave to Darvish alone. Suffice it to say, they haven’t been especially active — at least not by the standards of a former $200M-payroll club that plays in one of the game’s largest markets.

Ricketts: Cubs have resources to compete, 'will use them' originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago. As the Cubs watch the postseason from home this October, team chairman Tom Ricketts emphasized in an open letter to fans the team has resources this winter to compete in 2022. Whether this was a...