Articles filed under Football
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Bears coach Ben Johnson is driven by his quest to entertain — and embarrassSep 05, 2025 11:57 am - By now, it has been well established that ingenuity is new Bears coach Ben Johnson’s calling card, a primary fuel source for the next-level offense he built with the Detroit Lions and is now trying to replicate in Chicago. But to be clear, all the creative flair that helped make the Lions’ highlight montage so riveting the past three seasons — and particularly last year when Detroit scored an NFL-high 564 points — is only a fraction of the story.
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Making predictions for the upcoming Bears season is not for the faint of heartSep 05, 2025 6:00 am - Sports writers Michal Dwojak and Joe Aguilar are making their predictions for the 2025 Bears. Who will be team MVP? How many games will the Bears win? What will be the biggest surprise?
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Eagles’ Jalen Carter ejected for spitting on Cowboys' Dak PrescottSep 04, 2025 10:18 pm - Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter was ejected moments after a pregame Super Bowl championship celebration for spitting on Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott.
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Wearing white: NU’s Braun had solid response to Tulane claims of disrespectSep 04, 2025 8:16 pm - This week in college football looks at the uniform controvery between Northwestern and Tulane, plus an in-state team earned a high preseason rankings.
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How to watch 2025 Chicago Bears: Schedule, streaming for Year 2 of Caleb WilliamsSep 04, 2025 2:09 pm - Actually finding and accessing Bears games is more cumbersome than ever. In addition to the usual channel rotation of CBS, Fox, NBC, ABC/ESPN and NFL Network, this season’s streaming rights also extend to Amazon Prime, Netflix, Peacock and YouTube. It can get exhausting (and annoying) to keep up with all these changes, so we’ve compiled a league-wide overview of how the current broadcast carousel works.
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Silvy: After a busy off-season, Bears are ready to prove themselves — we hopeSep 04, 2025 6:00 am - This will be columnist Marc Silverman’s 31st season covering the Bears as a reporter, talk show host or columnist after growing up a diehard fan. He’d like to think he’s seen it all and have refined the way he predicts a season.
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Williams, Bears hope to prove they’ve learned from experiences vs. VikingsSep 03, 2025 3:54 pm - Quarterback Caleb Williams and the Bears will carry lessons from last year’s meetings against the Vikings with them as they prepare for their season opener against Minnesota on Monday night at Soldier Field. They’ll need all the help that they can get going against Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores’ aggressive defense.
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Bears coach Ben Johnson says coming days will determine how heavily team leans on Williams in openerSep 03, 2025 3:43 pm - Bears quarterback Caleb Williams comes into his second season with a new head coach in Ben Johnson, a rebuilt offensive line and some big questions to answer. Johnson is as curious as anyone to see how it all plays out, starting with the opener against the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night.
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O’Donnell: Belichick should have studied Phil Jackson’s career managementSep 03, 2025 8:00 am - Jim O’Donnell: Monday night on ESPN, Bill Belichick was out of place, out of time and as dispensable as a pedestrian junior college coach whistling out the string.
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Team Within a Team: Big men in the middle ‘fight the face, chase the tail’Sep 02, 2025 5:08 pm - Defensive tackles are charged with stopping the interior run and getting pressure on the quarterback.