Articles filed under NFL
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Bears DE Austin Booker will ‘get better in the shadows’ during rookie seasonAug 03, 2024 12:30 pm - Austin Booker believes the NFL is sleeping on him, and he’s fine with that. The Bears rookie defensive end flew under the radar when he transferred to Kansas last year, a...
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Jim O’Donnell: Thayer delivers moving ad-lib tribute to ‘Mongo’ on AM-1000Aug 03, 2024 10:00 am - THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME WEEKEND in Canton was intended to serve in part as tribute to Steve McMichael — almost elegiac in tone — and it was. The storm-shortened...
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Big Ten expansion doesn’t end the era of change in college sportsAug 03, 2024 6:00 am - USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon officially joined the Big Ten on Thursday, meaning the formerly Midwestern conference now stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Tha...
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Bears have all the pieces to turn into a winning franchise, starting with Caleb Williams: AnalysisAug 02, 2024 5:35 pm - CANTON, Ohio — Bears fans standing and waving signs in the front row behind Chicago's sideline pleaded with Caleb Williams to sign their mini-helmets before the Hall of F...
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What to know about Hall of Fame inductions for Steve McMichael, Devin Hester, Julius PeppersAug 02, 2024 3:20 pm - Three former Bears players are going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday in Canton, Ohio.
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Something in reserve: Bears beat Texans in preseason game ended in the third quarterAug 01, 2024 10:30 pm - The Bears are back. Or at least they were back on the football field for the first time in six months. The Bears defeated the Texans 21-17 at the Hall of Fame Game on Thu...
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Hall of Famer Julius Peppers drew motivation from working hot summers in North CarolinaAug 01, 2024 9:01 pm - CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Julius Peppers remembers the long, grueling dawn-until-dusk summer days he spent working in the cotton and cucumbers fields of North Carolina's Nash Cou...
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Devin Hester rewrote NFL record book with his spectacular returns. Now, he goes into Hall of FameAug 01, 2024 8:54 pm - A few years before Devin Hester began to etch his name into the NFL's record book with one spectacular return after another, Mark Sadowski was scouting a Miami-North Caro...
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Former Bears RB Tarik Cohen is ending his comeback and retiring from playing, AP source saysAug 01, 2024 11:18 am - FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Running back and return specialist Tarik Cohen has informed the New York Jets he's ending his comeback bid and will retire from playing football, acc...
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Silvy: Grateful McMichael made me a part of his extended familyAug 01, 2024 6:00 am - Knowing Steve McMichael has been one of the single greatest rewards of my entire career. He has provided me with lessons in strength, courage, humility, humor and kindnes...