Articles filed under Football
-
O’Donnell: Manufacturing belief — how high is the winter zoom for the Bears?Jan 13, 2026 10:48 am - THE PATH TO SPORTS PHENOMENON normally rises from interest to fandom to mania. Sometimes teams take years. Sometimes an alpha or two can greatly accelerate the ascent. At...
-
Bears’ Johnson can call plays and talk a good gameJan 12, 2026 8:22 pm - What is Bears coach Ben Johnson’s greatest talent -- calling plays or motivational speaking? It’s a close call.
-
Notre Dame’s Freeman won’t face charges for incident at son’s wrestling tournamentJan 12, 2026 7:17 pm - St. Joseph County (Ind.) prosecutors won’t file charges against Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman following an altercation at a high school wrestling meet on Jan. 3. O...
-
Inside the Numbers: How Indiana and Miami stack up going into CFP national championship gameJan 11, 2026 7:11 pm - MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza originally planned on going to Yale, which pulled out all the stops during his recruiting visit five years ago....
-
Three and out: How the Bears rallied to stun the PackersJan 10, 2026 11:43 pm - The Bears hosted Green Bay in a wild-card weekend playoff game Saturday night at Soldier Field. The Bears trailed most of the game, but like they have done numerous times this season, they rallied and won 31-27 for their seventh fourth-quarter comeback win of the season. Here are three moments that mattered, what worked and what didn’t.
-
Caleb Williams rallies Bears from 18 points down for 31-27 playoff win over rival PackersJan 10, 2026 11:28 pm - Caleb Williams came through in his playoff debut, throwing a go-ahead, 25-yard touchdown pass to DJ Moore with 1:43 remaining, and the Chicago Bears rallied from an 18-po...
-
Bears and Rams advance to divisional round with comeback wins to open NFL playoffsJan 10, 2026 11:04 pm - Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears are heading to the NFC divisional round following another comeback victory. All-Pros Matthew Stafford and Puka Nacua helped the Los A...
-
This Bears-Packers coaching rivalry could be specialJan 10, 2026 10:58 pm - Bears coach Ben Johnson started out slowly in his rivalry game against Green Bay’s Matt LaFleur, but managed to get the last handshake.
-
Stafford’s late TD pass to Parkinson lifts the Rams past the Panthers 34-31 in the wild-card roundJan 10, 2026 8:52 pm - Puka Nacua stepped into the huddle with the Los Angeles Rams trailing by four with 2:38 left, the home crowd roaring and his team's season on the line. He never thought twice about losing.
-
The Hoosiers’ dominant CFP run could put them in the mix for best of all time … pending a titleJan 10, 2026 5:47 pm - Undefeated Indiana did more than just justify its place as the top seed in the College Football Playoff with its lopsided 56-22 rout of Oregon in the Peach Bowl semifinal.