Articles filed under Football
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The Hope Index: Rating the chances Chicago’s pro teams can contend for a titleMay 29, 2026 9:09 pm - Some years it seems like a Chicago will never again win a major-league pro championship. This isn’t one of those years. We rate the local heroes’ chances and let you know where we see hope for athletic glory.
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College football Hall of Famer and suburban legend George Bork dies at 84May 29, 2026 4:50 pm - George Bork, one of the pioneers of the modern football passing game and a suburban native, died Wednesday at age 84.
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Bears coach Ben Johnson says he is ‘buying Luther Burden stock’ going into the seasonMay 28, 2026 6:44 pm - Luther Burden was hungry when he joined the Chicago Bears. A year later, not much has changed on that front. He has somewhere he wants to go, and he is determined to reach that level.
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Silvy: Plenty of blame to go around in drama over Bears stadium site searchMay 28, 2026 6:00 am - Columnist Marc Silverman writes about the Bears and their search for a home for their new stadium.
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What we heard at Big Ten meetings: No push to mandate 10 Power 4 opponents amid CFP talksMay 23, 2026 10:51 am - This fall, the SEC and ACC both shift to nine league games with every team in those leagues playing at least 10 power-conference opponents. Every Big 12 team plays 10, too, if the matchups with Pac-12 leftovers Washington State and Oregon State are counted. The Big Ten is now the outlier in this debate, with four teams — Indiana, Penn State, USC and Nebraska — facing only nine Power 4 opponents. And there’s no interest from the league office to require its teams to play 10 power opponents.
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CEO of NIL enforcement reminds frustrated schools: These are your rules, we just enforce themMay 21, 2026 7:08 pm - While frustration mounts across college sports and talk of breakaway conferences hits the hallways at conference's spring meetings, the leader of the agency formed to police name, image and likeness payments has a simple reminder: These are the rules you wrote.
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Back with the Bears, new running backs coach Studesville feeling at home againMay 21, 2026 4:50 pm - Chicago’s offseason will continue with Organized Team Activities (OTAs) over the next two weeks before mandatory minicamp during the second week of June. Here are three of the most interesting things the Bears said Thursday.
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Silvy: A surprising result after gaming out the Bears 2026 scheduleMay 21, 2026 6:00 am - Columnist Marc Silverman writes about the Bears’ 2026 regular-season schedule.
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Bears’ path to the playoffs might require a strong start to the seasonMay 20, 2026 5:18 pm - The Chicago Bears know what the road back to the playoffs looks like after the NFL released its 2026 schedule last week.
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Aaron Rodgers says the 2026 NFL season will be his last: ‘This is it’May 20, 2026 3:13 pm - Aaron Rodgers took his time before deciding he wanted to come back for a 22nd season. The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback already has made up his mind about a 23rd: There won't be one.