Solicitor General Dean Elena Kagan will decide whether to take the baseball drug list case to the Supreme Court. The MLBPA won a 9-2 decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week, which ruled federal agents illegally seized the urine samples of 104 players who allegedly tested positive in 2003. "The 9th Circuit is not one of the Supreme Court's favorite circuits. It is probably one of the most liberal circuits in the country," Pace Law School professor Bennett Gershman told the Associated Press. "I think there's a good chance if it goes to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court is going to reverse."

Sources told the Chicago Tribune on Thursday that the sale of the Cubs to the Ricketts family is "imminent." The Tribune Co. agreed to broad financial terms of a deal to sell the Cubs to the Ricketts family more than a month ago. Sources close to the matter said that a definitive agreement could be signed within days.

Shane Victorino has filed a report with the Chicago Police Department over Wednesday's beer-throwing incident at Wrigley Field. "A report for simple battery has been generated, and it's under investigation by Chicago police," CPD news affairs officer Michael Fitzpatrick said. The Cubs will work with the police department to pursue the individual who threw the beer. The Cubs are utilizing all of their resources, including videotape of the incident. "[The beer thrower is] probably at home laughing right now," Victorino said Thursday. "I just think he should be held accountable, that's it, nothing more than that. He should be held accountable, that's it ... but it is what it is. It's not like the first time I've seen it happen [at a ballpark]."

A minor league pitcher who threw a baseball that injured a fan has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and three year's probation. Julio Castillo injured the fan during an on-field melee last year in Ohio. He could have gotten as many as eight years in prison. "The court does believe that he is remorseful," Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Connie Price said at Castillo's sentencing Thursday.