"With his wife, Sarah, and their three children due to arrive in Arizona this weekend, Cubs reliever Kerry Wood has been busy setting up their home.

That meant buying and assembling baby furniture, grocery shopping and more. Thursday evening, Wood was at a Scottsdale Target pushing a shopping cart filled with baby items when he bumped into Basketball Hall of Famer Charles Barkley, who lives in Scottsdale and had a cart full of food for his kids.

"It was pretty funny," Wood told us. "We talked for a while and had a few laughs."

Reviewing the play: In August, NBA Commissioner David Stern disallowed a formal business affiliation between Isiah Thomas and the Knicks. But that didn't keep the Hall of Fame guard from having an opinion regarding the likely trade destination for Carmelo Anthony."