Antique Trader

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Lifelong fan Glen Christensen assembled one of the most impressive private collections of Green Bay Packers memorabilia in the country in his home. A native of Green Bay, Christensen now lives in the heart of Dallas Cowboys country. His collection

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - With flames bursting into the August air, Bears players sprinted out of the tunnel Saturday, a theatrical entrance to an otherwise ho-hum day. Behind the pack, prized rookie Roquan Smith walked to the home sideline in a pair of workout shor

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - It's difficult to know whether the Bears are any closer to finding a kicker they can count on for the 2019 season. But the team made another roster move on that front Wednesday morning, cutting Chris Blewitt. Blewitt earned an opportunity t

Chicago Tribune

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"Here is what Mr. McCaskey needs to hear: It's been seven years since the Bears made the playoffs. Me and my brother, season ticket holders, talk about that. That's $16,000 I spent in tickets. This is Year 5 and I can't give them away. They're becomi

Newsweek

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LittLe endures very Long in Super Bowl history. Dynastic teams come and go. Stadiums and commissioners, too. Even Tom Brady, it turns out, could not last forever. But on February 13, as he has on every single Super Bowl Sun-day, 93-year-old Jerry Gre

Chicago Tribune

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Usually the Week 15 waiver wire is about dart throws - or at least it's supposed to be. But fantasy karma is a mischievous imp who loves to toy with the hearts of fake-football GMs by throwing real-football depth charts into upheaval with three weeks

Chicago Tribune

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Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky is "day to day" with a right shoulder injury he suffered at the end of Sunday night's game against the Vikings, Bears coach Matt Nagy said Tuesday at Halas Hall. Nagy said he is "cautiously optimistic" Trubisky will b

Chicago Tribune

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While embattled coach John Fox steers the Bears to the finish line of another last-place, double-digit-loss season, the significance of impending organizational change dwarfs the formality of Sunday's finale against the Vikings. Fox's job is to maint

Chicago Tribune

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On the final play of a wild Sunday afternoon, Mitch Trubisky launched a bomb into the October sky and hoped for the best. A cluster of bodies swirled around Soldier Field's south goal line. And from within that mob, Bears receiver Kevin White emerged

Chicago Tribune

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Bears coach Matt Nagy said Wednesday he has a "strong" feeling quarterback Mitch Trubisky will play Sunday night when the Bears host the Rams at Soldier Field. Trubisky has missed two games with a right shoulder injury and hasn't participated in prac

Steelers Digest

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From the notebook of a sportswriter who enters August with the feeling the Pittsburgh Steelers have not only made the right moves on paper, but on the field as well: • Signing Donte Moncrief and Mark Barron made sense at the time — and they’re coming

Chicago Tribune

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Every event on the Bears calendar this year offers some type of first for Matt Nagy, who had never been a head coach before being hired in January. The learning experiences continue to come in quick succession, the latest being the three-day rookie m

It GiRL

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Follow a baby puffer fish through a vibrant coral reef as he learns to survive and thrive through the first year of his life - an extraordinary journey for a little fish that starts out smaller than a human fingernail. For the first time, scientists,

Los Angeles Times

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LAS VEGAS — Among the many new experiments in this year’s NFL draft, the league had an artist speed-painting portraits of the players as they were selected. Guy could have painted the Sistine Chapel in the time it took for the quarterbacks to come of

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES_Garnering Pro Bowl votes is not high on Pharoh Cooper's list of priorities. Returning kickoffs to set up the Los Angeles Rams' offense, catching and returning punts, helping other special teams units and developing as an impact receiver a

Chicago Tribune

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For Cortez Hankton, it was a moment in late-September that fully validated Riley Ridley's competitive edge. Georgia was protecting a fourth-quarter lead on the road at Missouri. Less than five minutes remained. And the Bulldogs were backed into third

Chicago Tribune

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Forgive me for a second. I'm trying to get the list together of all the kickers the Bears have invited to the next phase of Kicker Search 2019. There's Redford Jones and Chris Blewitt. Check. Plus Elliott Fry and John Baron II. OK. Those four are und

Chicago Tribune

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Cole Kmet had to turn off his phone this week. Enough thoughts already were racing through the Chicago Bears tight end’s head as he tried to prepare for Thursday’s game against the Detroit Lions on a short week while also sifting through a blizzard

Steelers Digest

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From the notebook of a sportswriter who wonders how the Browns are going to win any games without Myles Garrett: • Listening to Cleveland-area reporters telling me how nice of a guy Garrett is, and how well he treats his dog, made me think of reporte

Chicago Tribune

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BOURBONNAIS, Ill. - At no point in the previous 17 summers the Bears spent at Olivet Nazarene University preparing for the season was wide receiver depth considered a team strength. Not even the most optimistic member of the personnel department coul

Foxtel Magazine

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Watch season one On Demand As Dwayne Johnson runs for president in 2032, the candidate reflects on his formative years at ages 10 (Adrian Groulx), 15 (Bradley Constant) and 18 (Uli Latukefu, pictured) in a series of flashbacks. It’s not easy to repre

Steelers Digest

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Associate Editor The last time an 8-8 team went into the offseason with legitimate reason for excitement? Might have to check the last time a team returned its quarterback from a season-long injury. That’s why the .500 Steelers opened as the No. 9 fa

Chicago Tribune

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Ryan Poles took a step back from the table holding a host of microphones and recorders in a small room inside the Indiana Convention Center on Tuesday afternoon. “I’ve got to take a picture of this,” Poles said as he used his cellphone to photograph

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - Bears kicker Eddy Pineiro suffered a right knee injury in the weight room Friday and is listed as questionable for Monday night's game against the Redskins, coach Matt Nagy said Saturday. Pineiro is right-footed. Nagy characterized the inju

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - No way. There's just no way. There's no possible way Sunday's playoff game at Soldier Field ended the way it did. There's no way the Bears' magical season and an electric afternoon by Lake Michigan ended with a struggling kicker trotting ou

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - As the van pulled up Football Drive and the giant orange "C" on the guard shack became visible, 17-year-old Tim Johnson kept thinking the same thing. "This can't be real," he said. Johnson, a senior at Morgan Park High School on the South S

Steelers Digest

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We lost a number of guys in this game, but that wasn’t the reason we didn’t win this game. We were fully capable with the guys that were on the field. We didn’t make enough plays, to be quite honest with you. We didn’t play clean enough, particularly

Chicago Tribune

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The Bears just got a "best player." Oh, they might've had one before, but it would be by default because even bad teams have a best player by process of elimination. But this is different. Once this becomes official, the Bears will have acquired a "b

The Atlantic

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Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The day after the blizzard: Major cities are slowly coming back to life after the massive snowstorm. Update from C.B.: Al

Steelers Digest

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Assistant Editor It was just a few days after the 2019 season ended and Vance McDonald sat back in his chair, quietly thinking back on the year. For a player who has always been his own worst critic, he didn’t hold back when he offered an evaluation