Steelers at Bears, Game Redux

Watching the early games on Sunday, a couple bad omens have started to emerge.  Remember last Sunday night when the Bears and Packers defenses imposed their will on the other team’s defenses pretty much all night? Well, we were all pretty excited that Adawale...

With minds like this, how are newspapers dying?

The Chicago Sun-Times could be facing its final days (literally–it could be gone for good in two weeks) and the Tribune is somewhere around a billion dollars in the hole (and soon they won’t be able to blame Alfonso Soriano for it).  And so you wonder,...

Stay classy, Jim Mora

As Bob Legere pointed out in his Daily Herald blog, the last person who ought to be commenting on someone’s demeanor during a postgame press conference is Jim Mora Sr.  That cackling douchebag might have been entertaining in his pressers, but he didn’t...

Urlacher lost for season. Brooks to the rescue?

With the news that the wrist that Brian Urlacher broke last night will cost him the rest of the season, the Bears are believed to be negotiating with another Hall of Fame linebacker to fill that void.  Derrick Brooks, launched from Tampa Bay in the offseason...

Bears-Packers Opening Night Redux

Because our preseason running diary of the Bears and Broncos was such a hit (oh, shut up), let’s do it again for the 178th edition of Bears-Packers. I’m not sure if you’ve heard that the Bears have a new quarterback or not, but Jake Utler makes his...

Roger over, over, Unger

You don’t have to be a deviant gambler to be intrigued by the over/unders the Las Vegas bookmakers have put on each team’s win totals. The “experts” as Lee Corso so craftily refers to them on Saturday mornings, are pretty good at this.  At...