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CHICAGO -- Kyle Hendricks might not necessarily be the second coming of Greg Maddux, but the crafty Chicago Cubs right-hander compares quite favorably with the Hall of Famer, according to San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy.Hes a Maddux-type pitcher, hes cerebral, great stuff, great command and moves the ball around well, Bochy said Friday as the Giants and Cubs prepared to open their National League Division Series at Wrigley Field.Hendricks (16-8 with a 2.13 ERA during the regular season) takes the mound for the Cubs in Saturdays Game 2 against Giants right-hander and ex-Cub Jeff Samardzija (12-11, 3.81). The Cubs lead the series after a 1-0 victory in the opener.(Hendricks is) a true pitcher. You look at other guys who dont have that velocity and theyre smart pitchers, Bochy said. He changes speeds, hes tough. ... Hes got a great changeup, a great motion on it, its hard to read the pitch.Hendricks was the first Cubs pitcher to lead the majors in ERA since Bill Lee (2.66 ERA) in 1938. He went 9-2 with a 1.32 ERA in 15 games (14 starts) at Wrigley Field. It was also the lowest home ERA for any pitcher in baseball.He has a 4.32 ERA in three career starts against the Giants.Hendricks said he appreciated Bochys compliment.Ive heard those comparisons a few times. Its pretty humbling just to be mentioned in the same sentence with (Maddox), he said. I didnt really dissect too much from Gregs game pitching-wise, but mentally I think the approach he took of having simple thoughts ... and just making effective pitches, I really learned a lot from that.Now in his third season, Hendricks made 31 appearances and 30 starts in 2016, working 190 innings and striking out 170 batters while walking 44. He went 7-1 with three no-decisions in the seasons final two months.Samardzija returns to a park he knows very well as a Cubs player for nearly seven seasons. He went 31-42 with a 3.97 ERA during that span.Samardzija was traded to the Oakland As in 2015, pitched for the Chicago White Sox in 2015 and joined the Giants as a free agent this season.Nicknamed The Shark, Samardzija was 3-4 with four no-decisions in the last two months of the season.He had no decision in a Sept. 1 outing against the Cubs -- his only other start at Wrigley Field as a visiting pitcher -- allowing three runs and four hits in a five-inning outing as the Giants lost 5-4.Samardzija got the Game 2 call that could have also easily gone to Matt Moore.Im going to take it as (Bochy) has confidence in me and Im not going to let him down, Samardzija said.Whats the secret to pitching at Wrigley Field?The flags, he said. Its really the only thing that matters. ... 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GENEVA -- Confidential medical data of gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles, seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams and other female U.S. Olympians was hacked from a World Anti-Doping Agency database and posted online Tuesday.WADA said the hackers were a Russian cyber espionage group called Fancy Bears.They revealed records of Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs), which allow athletes to use otherwise-banned substances because of a verified medical need.Williams, who won a silver medal in mixed doubles at the Rio Olympics last month, issued a statement via her agent in which she said she was granted TUEs when serious medical conditions have occurred, and those exemptions were reviewed by an anonymous, independent group of doctors, and approved for legitimate medical reasons.Williams revealed in 2011 she had been diagnosed with Sjogrens syndrome, an energy-sapping disease.I was disappointed to learn today that my private, medical data has been compromised by hackers and published without my permission, Williams said. I have followed the rules established under the Tennis Anti-Doping Program in applying for, and being granted, `therapeutic use exemption.Another athlete named was womens basketball gold medalist Elena Delle Donne, who had thumb surgery on Tuesday and posted a post-op pic on Twitter, along with a statement saying she takes prescribed medication approved by WADA.In a statement, USA Gymnastics said Biles -- who won five medals, four gold, in Rio last month -- was approved for an exemption and had not broken any rules.She wrote on Twitter that shes taken medication to treat ADHD since she was a child.Please know I believe in clean sport, have always followed the rules, and will continue to do so as fair play is critical to sport and is very important to me, Biles posted.WADA previously warned of cyberattacks after investigators it had appointed published reports into Russian state-sponsored doping.These criminal acts are greatly compromising the effort by the global anti-doping community to re-establish trust in Russia, World Anti-Doping Agency director general Olivier Niggli said in a statement.WADA said it extended its investigation with the relevant law enforcement authorities.Last month, hackers obtained a database password for Russian runner Yuliya Stepanova, a whistleblower and key witness for the WADA investigations. She and her husband, a former official with the Russian national anti-doping agency, are now living at an undisclosed location in North America.ddddddddddddA spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected WADAs statement blaming Russian hackers as unfounded.There can be no talk about any official or government involvement, any involvement of Russian agencies in those actions. Its absolutely out of the question, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies. Such unfounded accusations dont befit any organization, if they arent backed by substance.The International Olympic Committee said it strongly condemns such methods which clearly aim at tarnishing the reputation of clean athletes.The IOC can confirm however that the athletes mentioned did not violate any anti-doping rules during the Olympic Games Rio 2016, the Olympic body said.The top American anti-doping official said it was unthinkable to try to smear athletes who followed the rules and did nothing wrong.The cyberbullying of innocent athletes being engaged in by these hackers is cowardly and despicable, said Travis Tygart, CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.The name Fancy Bears appears to be a tongue-in-cheek reference to a collection of hackers that many security researchers have long associated with Russia.In a statement posted to its website early Tuesday, the group proclaimed its allegiance to Anonymous, the loose-knit movement of online mischief-makers, and said it hacked WADA to show the world how Olympic medals are won.We will start with the U.S. team which has disgraced its name by tainted victories, the group said, adding that more revelations about other teams were forthcoming.Internet records suggest Fancy Bears data dump has been in the works for at least two weeks; their website was registered on Sept. 1 and their Twitter account was created on Sept. 6.Messages left with the group were not immediately returned. A French name and phone number associated with the site both appeared to be bogus. A mailing address listed by the hackers appeared to point to a florist east of Paris; messages left with the business were not immediately returned.---Associated Press writer Raphael Satter in London and Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report ' ' '