If I Had a Billion Dollars...

Cubbies! I'd buy the Cubbies!

clipped from www.marketwatch.com The Associated Press, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, reported Thursday that bidders who offered between $700 million and $900 million at first were bounced from the second round and that the final price tag is apt to be in the $1 billion range. Still in the running are Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban; the Ricketts family, founders of what eventually became TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.; and a group that includes baseball great Hank Aaron and former Congressman Jack Kemp.