Pro Sports
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Chiefs the last preseason challenge for Williams, Bears on the bubble
Aug 22, 2025 6:00 am - Both Bears head coach Ben Johnson and Chiefs head coach Andy Reid announced their starters will play in Friday’s game, including quarterbacks Caleb Williams and Patrick Mahomes. Neither coach said how long their starters will play. But there will plenty to watch in the Bears’ last game before the start of the regular season against the Minnesota Vikings on Sept. 8.
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Blowout win sends Schaumburg Boomers back to top of West Division standingsAug 21, 2025 9:50 pm - A night after falling out of first place, the Schaumburg Boomers vaulted back to the top of the West Division standings, leapfrogging the Gateway Grizzlies after breezing to a 17-5 win on Thursday night to salvage a game in the series between the two teams fighting in the standings at Wintrust Field.
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Tucker returns, but Cubs bats stay silent in pivotal division loss to MilwaukeeAug 21, 2025 6:29 pm - Kyle Tucker went 0-for-3 with a walk in his return to the lineup and the Cubs lost the series finale to Milwaukee 4-1 on Thursday.
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Milwaukee’s Priester win streak reaches 15 straightAug 21, 2025 5:44 pm - Brewers starter Quinn Priester couldn’t finish the fifth inning Thursday against the Cubs. But the Cary-Grove grad kept his string of success intact.
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WNBA breaks single-season attendance record that had stood since 2002Aug 21, 2025 4:58 pm - With 2½ weeks left in the WNBA's regular season, the league has already broken its single-season attendance record. League officials announced Thursday that the league's 13 teams have drawn a total of 2,501,609 fans over 226 games this season, surpassing the previous mark that was set in 2002 when the league had 16 teams. It also took the WNBA 256 games to reach the milestone in 2002.
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Blackhawks sign Frank Nazar to seven-year contract extension
Aug 21, 2025 4:20 pm - The Chicago Blackhawks signed forward Frank Nazar to a seven-year contract extension on Thursday with a cap hit of $6.59 million per season. The contract doesn’t kick in until the 2026-27 season, as Nazar still has a year left on his entry-level deal. The hope — the expectation, really — is that he and Connor Bedard can be the Blackhawks’ 1-2 punch down the middle for the next decade or more.
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Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, aka Sincaraz, rule men’s tennis as the 2025 US Open arrivesAug 21, 2025 11:04 am - Since Jannik Sinner returned in May from a three-month doping ban, Cincinnati was the fourth event both he and Carlos Alcaraz entered — and they met to decide the title in all four.
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Want 2027 All-Star Game tickets at Wrigley Field? The Cubs have a plan for that
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Silvy: It’s all coming into focus for the Bears — so they need to be bold one more time
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Chicago Dogs win slugfest against Lake CountryAug 20, 2025 11:17 pm - The Chicago Dogs won the series against Lake Country on Wednesday night in a slugfest that ended 12-5.