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The Chicago Bears placed backup running back Garrett Wolfe on injured reserve Friday, ending his season. The team listed a kidney injury for Wolfe, who told the Chicago Tribune in a text message that he suffered a lacerated kidney on the opening kickoff of a game against Arizona on Nov. 8. The...

The Chicago Bears placed backup running back Garrett Wolfe on injured reserve Friday, ending his season. The Bears will also listed tight end Desmond Clark, who has a neck injury, and safety Kevin Payne (back) as doubtful for Sunday's game against the Philadelphia Eagles. The team listed...

By Jeff Fisher Your Bears were fresh off a Super Bowl season. They headed into the offseason with a lame duck head coach signed only through the upcoming season. National pundits and fans were outraged at the possibility that the first coach to take the Bears to the Super Bowl in 20+ years could actually wal...

Chicago Bears: It looks like the Bears will be without tight end Desmond Clark (neck) and safety Kevin Payne (back) on Sunday night against Philadelphia. Both players are listed as doubtful. … The Bears also placed running back Garrett Wolfe (kidney) on injured reserve and promoted runni...

By Brad Biggs Also, as we reported was likely, running back Khalil Bell was promoted from the practice squad to the 53-man roster by the Bears. He takes the place of Garrett Wolfe. Bears OUT DOUBTFUL TE Desmond Clark, neck--DNP, DNP, DNP. S Kevin Payne, back--DNP, DNP, DNP. Eagles OUT

Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers grew up a 49ers fan and once was deeply disappointed not to have been drafted to play for his hometown team. Sometimes you see players especially motivated to face teams that passed over them in the draft, but I don’t sense that from Rodgers. The primary peo...

By Stephen Rhodes The Chicago Bears will be with one less running back for the short-term as Brad Biggs of the Chicago Sun-Times reports that running back Garrett Wolfe will miss the remainder of the regular season with a lacerated kidney; Wolfe was hospitalized for three nights following the Bears-Card...

By The Sports Xchange The Scout.com NFL experts chip in with everything you need to know just ahead of Sunday's primetime game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in Week 11.

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By Dane Noble Bob LeGere says to throw it to Forte. LeBron James to the Browns.  Any Chicago athletes you'd like to see on the Bears? Chicago Rush returning in 2011.   Do you watch the arena league? Sunday is a must-win for both the Bears and the Eagles.

By Gene Chamberlain LAKE FOREST, IL—It took very little time for the idea to come across coach Lovie Smith's lips this week in practice following last week's debacle at San Francisco. "We have five losses. Five losses don't keep you out of anything. Our players realize that. It's a big game coming up," Smith said. A...

By BY MIKE MULLIGAN Staff Reporter Bears offensive coordinator Ron Turner said he's not buying the concept of Jay Cutler as a Not Ready For Prime Time Player despite evidence to the contrary.

By BY BRAD BIGGS bbiggs@suntimes.com In a sign of how difficult things have become in the Bears' world, the beleaguered team stunned a network giant Wednesday by rejecting NBC's request for prime-time access to coach Lovie Smith, quarterback Jay Cutler and general manager Jerry Angelo.

By Jeff Hughes There really is nothing interesting about the Bears v. Eagles game Sunday night if you're not intrigued by the playoff implications.  So at the risk of continuing my admittedly-forced optimism, let me breakdown the NFC.The Saints, Vikings and Cardinals are... There really is nothing intere...

By Jeff Hughes I'm not making an argument for the Bears making the playoffs.  No Bears team has turned me off more than this one.  But Atlanta is playing the Giants this week and one of those teams is getting a fifth loss.  So if the Bears were to defy what will certainly be long odds and beat Philadelphia at home...

The Eagles-Bears matchup Nov. 22 will remain the Sunday night game even though NBC had the option of picking another contest.

By wiltfongjr If you're the Chicago Bears' management, who are you more inclined to fire, Lovie Smith or Ron Turner? He goes on to get more in detail with his question, bashing both Turner and Smith, even bashing Lovie for being an ineffective drafter, a point King immediately corrects. 

CHICAGO -- I think I heard a collective groan here Sunday when Bears coach Lovie Smith stepped to the podium and said: “I don’t have a lot of reasons to give you on why we played that way.” In this case, however, I’m with Smith: The Bears’ performance Sunday was inexplicable.

By Richard Bridges Tonight, the Atlanta Falcons have another chance to prove they are a playoff contending team on prime time television. Their first go at it was Sunday night against the Chicago Bears. The Saints running game vs. Curtis Lofton Saints 37, Falcons 27

By wiltfongjr Lance Briggs, he of the four straight pro bowls, has a career high of 2 sacks in a season.  Brian Urlacher has a career high of 8 all the way back in his rookie year.  The Bears linebackers are not good pass rushers.  The last good pass rushing linebacker the Bears had was Rosevelt Colvin in 2002, w...

By Roy Taylor Petulant, pathetic ex-Bear having a career season has his career best game against his former team after spouting lies all week about how the Bears tried to kill his career, when in actuality the player himself couldn’t give a crap when the McCaskey fan gave him $17 million to stink?  Chec...

By Ed Yevelev Cameron Jordan has been inconsistent, while back-up Ernest Owusu has not had a single quarterback drop since getting a couple in the Maryland opener. Coming into the season, the Bears had hoped that their depth at the position (a rotation that ran six-deep) would help remedy the loss of Za...

By Ed Yevelev Quarterback Grade: B+ Grade: C As one of the keys to a functioning running game and an upright quarterback, the boys up front have major ups and downs this season after losing stellar center Alex Mack and offensive line coach Steve Marshall.

By Brad Biggs 2012: DE Gaines Adams, S Al Afalava, DL Jarron Gilbert, DT Tommie Harris, WR Juaquin Iglesias, WR Johnny Knox, G Lance Louis, DL Henry Melton, CB D.J. Moore, G Frank Omiyale, LB Brian Urlacher, CB Nathan Vasher, OT Chris Williams 2013: LB Lance Briggs, QB Jay Cutler, K Robbie Gould, WR Devin H...

By Gene Chamberlain A funny thing happened on tight end Greg Olsen’s way to becoming quarterback Jay Cutler’s go-to guy. Cutler has thrown to Olsen needing four yards or less for a first down or touchdown a dozen times. The Bears have two first downs, two touchdowns and eight incompletions on those 12 passes.

By chicagosports The Bears actually have retired 13 jersey numbers, most in the NFL and third most in professional sports behind only the New York Yankees with 15 and the Boston Celtics with 21. The reason the Bears don’t retire more jersey numbers is they wouldn’t have enough numbers to assign if they retir...

By FantasyDC Marshawn Lynch BUF, RB Ronnie Brown MIA, RB Kyle Orton DEN, QB Billy Smith - Buy - Who are you and what have you done with Kyle Orton? All of the sudden the Bears' castoff looks like John Elway. Miles Austin DAL, WR Matt Hasselbeck SEA, QB

By hosts@bearscast.com (Bearscast) Episode: 143 - Sean and Mr. Payne discuss "3 Things" about the Bears 48-24 win vs. Lions (October 5) - Bearscast 2009 Season Podcasts - Bearscast.com - Hosted By: Sean, Herman & Gabe

By chicagosports Why did the Bears go for the two-point conversion on their last touchdown? If Seattle had scored a TD with a conversion, the Bears still would have lost by a point. --Carl Ott, Westchester, Ill. By Dan Pompei You want to talk about the Bears coaches and if they are doing a good job, why the coache...

By Drew Magary 2003—Michael Haynes (1), Rex Grossman (1), Charles Tillman (2), Lance Briggs (3) 2004—Tommie Harris (1), Tank Johnson (2), Bernard Berrian (3) 2006—Danieal Manning (2), Devin Hester (2), Dusty Dvoracek (3) 2008—Chris Williams (1), Matt Forte (2), Earl Bennett (3), Marcus Harrison...

By David Carter Chicago Bears In 1957, the Lions won their third NFL championship in six years. In ’58, they traded legendary quarterback Bobby Layne to Pittsburgh. Since then, they have had one Pro Bowl quarterback and one playoff victory. Now here comes Matthew Stafford, the No. 1 pick in this year’s draft.

By Andrew Maisonneuve The 2009 Chicago Bears defense line will get back to form and dominate in the NFL. If the Bears defensive line unit can stay healthy, which is extremely important, I believe that they will step up greatly improve their pass rush with coach Rod Marinelli at the wheel.

And the Bears could have some new threads, too. Team spokesman Scott Hagel said the Bears are exploring the possibility of adding a sponsorship patch to practice jerseys, a move first made by the Tennessee Titans at least a year ago. The NFL tackled ...

By Max Kienzler With the 99th pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears selected Juaquin Iglesias (WR) from Oklahoma. With the 119th pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears selected D.J. Moore (CB) from Vanderbilt. With the 190th pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, the Chicago Bears selected Al Afalava (S) Or...

By Max Kienzler So, reviewing the Chicago Bears selection on the first day of the draft, they selected ... oh wait, did I miss something? Who did we pick? But I refuse to give Angelo any credit because there was no way of knowing that Johnson would not be selected by a team in the 50-64 pick range. It was just luck th...

By Roy Taylor The Bears have made The Onion.  What a great milestone in Chicago Bears History.  According to this source, the Bears have signed a dynamic new wide receiver.  A receiver that could team with Jay Cutler to create the best quarterback-receiver duo in Bears history.

By Brad Biggs If general manager Jerry Angelo has done one thing well in the draft, it's find defensive backs in the later rounds. Nathan Vasher, Chris Harris, Kevin Payne, Corey Graham and Todd Johnson were all selected in the fourth round... Nathan Vasher, Chris Harris, Kevin Payne, Corey Graham and Tod...

By Roman Modrowski I hope Tom Waddle's dream doesn't portend the next radio stunt, because the former Bears receiver and co-host of the "Waddle & Silvy" show on ESPN 1000 would be in even worse shape than Harry Teinowitz if he acts out his nightmare.

By Roman Modrowski I don't think there is a Bears fan alive who wishes Cedric Benson were still the running back here instead of Matt Forte. He underachieved on the field and alienated a fan base off the field. But still, I think Benson has a point when he says he wasn't treated entirely fairly in Chicago.

Filed under: Bears, SaintsMike Murphy of 670 The Score in Chicago asked me to come on his show today and talk about tonight's Bears-Saints game. Murph and I discussed Thursday Night Football in general, and I think we're in agreement that we're in favor of anything that gives us more footba...

By Matt Loede John Sefcik from NFL Gridiron Gab Covering and Talking About the Vikings win over Houston One game remains in Week 9, and here at the Gab we are back with another edition of Gridiron Rewind to talk about all the big matchups from the week gone by. Today here on the show Matt Loede along with the s...

Only five days from the return of the Bears, bar tabs and Jeff on the blog. And hopefully your 2008 Chicago Bears will be monopolizing the Red Zone channel I won’t be watching this Sunday. UPDATE: Add Ronny Rivera to the list of ex-Bears having exciting weeks. He just got bumped up to Chargers’ D...

By Matt Loede John Bena from the Mile High Report on tonight’s Broncos-Pats Showdown Russ Loede from Bearsgab on the crazy game between the Vikings and Bears Matt Jergensen from RavensGab on the Ravens win over the Dolphins Jeff Roman from RamsGab on the Rams Upset win over the Cowboys

By Matt Loede Dan Zinski from The Viking Age on the Vikings last second win over the Lions Chris Harris Big Cat Country on the Jags 24-17 victory in Denver over the Broncos Jim Dubenetzky from ChargersGab on the Chargers beating of the Pats Sunday night

By Eric Williams Alexander worked out at the Lions practice facility for the team’s coaching staff, along with former Bears running back Cedric Benson and former Packers running back Vernand Morency. Detroit is reportedly happy with the stable of running backs on the team and is just looking at potentia...

By Kevin Chroust Monday, September 8, 2008 Enjoy, but don't expect too much Bears fans, celebrate this win. Be happy the Bears trounced Peyton Manning and his Super Bowl-contenting Colts. Congratulate Matt Forte on a very solid NFL debut, and thank Kyle Orton for not screwing up or putting the defense in te...

By chicagosports Eight months since their trip to the Super Bowl, they're 1-3, banged up in bad places, on their second quarterback, who's no better than their first quarterback, and they were just embarrassed by the Detroit Lions. Over at ESPN, it's Packers across the board, both of them.

By chicagosports Forget about the dream Week 1 matchup. Forget about Ladainian Tomlinson vs. Brian Urlacher or Brian Urlacher vs. Shawn Merriman or Ron Turner vs. Norv Turner or that the man's name is Norv -- short for Norval. This game hinges on one thing and one thing only. That Nike commercial.

Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher was fined 100,000 by the NFL for wearing a cap during Super Bowl media day that promoted a sponsor not authorized by the league.

At Stake: National Football League Championship Participants: Indianapolis Colts vs. Chicago Bears A: Being the second quarterback to win a Super Bowl for their team B: Running for a touchdown in a Super Bowl D: ;Throwing at least four touchdown passes in their Super Bowl careers

By podcasts@sfgate.com (Benny Evangelista) It's the week and a half before the Colts and Bears meet in the Super Bowl and the Fool is one lonely guy. No Fantasy Man , no journalism class kids and nothing to bet on . What's a Fool...