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Safety Chris Harris leaves training camp practice.

BOURBONNAIS, Ill. -- The T-shirt has two ferocious grizzly bears biting and clawing giant footballs above and below the words ''Monsters of the Midway.''

BOURBONNAIS, Ill. -- With threatening clouds above, the scene at the Bears' opening practice Friday at Olivet Nazarene University looked like a scene out of ...

Mike Mulligan: Given Jay Cutler's difficult 2009 season, you might think the Bears quarterback would be eager to switch designations from his current job title of franchise savior. Not a chance. Just as Cutler embraced the pressure last year, he welcomes …

Chicago Bears legend Gale Sayers had a pointed rebuttal for linebacker Brian Urlacher.

Can aging Brian Urlacher return to all-Pro form? Will enigmatic Jay Cutler grasp the complexities of Mike Martz's offense? Will puzzling Tommie Harris make major contributions this season? Bears writer Neil Hayes makes 10 bold predictions about the upcomi…

BOURBONNAIS, Ill. -- The best-case scenario for the Bears has defensive tackle Tommie Harris shedding his injury-prone label, which is exactly what the former Pro Bowler and coach Lovie Smith expect him to do this season.

Devin Hester has never lacked confidence. He starred at multiple positions for the Miami Hurricanes, and he earned Pro Bowl honors as a return specialist in his first two NFL seasons. But Hester said his 16-plus individual workouts with four-time Pro Bowl…

Rick Morrissey: He's called Lovie for a reason: Pollyanna was already taken. But it's still a fine name for a man who lives only to spread positive vibes. So there Lovie Smith was Thursday, using the eve of training camp to set a tone of such unbridled en…

BOURBONNAIS, Ill. -- It's unavoidable, even if some players wish it wasn't. It's the biggest question looming over Olivet Nazarene University as the Bears begin training camp, even if the person it directly involves would rather talk about his optimism fo…

Most NFL teams have a lot to prove when they report to training camp, but that's especially true about a Bears team that likely will be dismantled if the playoffs remain out of reach for a fourth consecutive season. General manager Jerry Angelo and coach …

They will be making final preparations on campus at Olivet Nazarene University this week for the arrival of the Chicago Bears on Thursday, but no trapeze will be hung.

Bears guard Johan Asiata's ascension defies convention, whether he does or doesn't start the season at left guard. He didn't start playing football until his freshman year at Yuba Community College in California, and he didn't start mastering the intricac…

Dave Toub knows the Bears signed defensive end Julius Peppers primarily to sack quarterbacks. But the Bears' special-teams coach hoped Peppers could do something else: block some kicks, too. Since the NFL started tracking blocked kicks in 1978, Peppers is…

Neil Hayes: Bears players soon will begin packing their big-screen TVs and laptops for an annual rite that sometimes seems as relevant in the modern NFL as salt tablets and single-bar facemasks. Like everything else about the game, preseason training has …

There's an expectation for an explosion in the Mike Martz-Jay Cutler relationship, like raw sodium being tossed into a bucket of water.

Neil Hayes: The face of Chicago sports doesn't have Derrick Rose's youthful look or Lou Piniella's white stubble. Despite the Blackhawks' success, the face that best defines this sports-crazed city isn't a toothless grin viewed through a plastic shield, a…

Glenn Beck apologized to Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher for calling him a neo-Nazi

The Josh McDaniels administration has chased off most of the disgruntled Denver Broncos players it inherited — Jay Cutler(notes), Brandon Marshall(notes) and Tony Scheffler(notes) have all been knifed out of the picture since McDaniels took over for the…

So, imagine me standing in the back of at large party boat waiting to talk to Jay Cutler before his "Vegas Night Charity Cruise" debarks from Navy Pier on Thursday evening, as beautiful model-type girls in party dresses walk past.

The Chicago Bears are the 13th most valuable sports team in the world, according to the 2010 valuation by Forbes magazine.

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) -- The Chicago Bears have signed running back Harvey Unga to a four-year contract.

The Bears have agreed to terms with former Rutgers quarterback Mike Teel, according to Teel's agent, Neil Schwartz.

NFL Films president Steve Sabol apparently has a lot of respect for the Bears. As a guest columnist for Sports Illustrated NFL writer Peter King, Sabol used superlatives in describing some prominent Bears.

Harvey Unga's first child was born on the Fourth of July. Unga is getting married today. Thanks to the Bears, the former Brigham Young running back now has a job to support his young family. The Bears selected Unga in the seventh round of the NFL suppleme…