Corvey Irvin

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT For the first 10 years of his NFL career, weak-side linebacker Lance Briggs lined up next to middle linebacker Brian Urlacher in the Bears' defense. That combination resulted in eight...

NFL Team Report - Tampa Bay Buccaneers - INSIDE SLANT Bucs coach Greg Schiano spent the first day of OTAs trying to dial down the rhetoric surrounding starting quarterback Josh Freeman. Over the weekend, Schiano told the National Football Post that...

The Chicago Bears terminated the contract of defensive tackle Andre Fluellen on Monday, reducing to 89 the number of players on the roster. The move frees up room for the club to sign Temple cornerback Maurice Jones to a contract. Jones agreed to terms...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT If 2011 first-round pick Gabe Carimi is trying to punch his ticket out of Chicago after two disappointing seasons, he's on the right path. Carimi is absent from OTAs that started this...

NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT In his one season of major-college football, Bears first-round pick Kyle Long started his only five games at left guard. But he lined up exclusively at right guard during the weekend's rookie minicamp...

The Chicago Bears put the time they spent with 33 tryout players in rookie minicamp to good use, adding four of them to the mix Monday. The Bears signed defensive tackles Corvey Irvin and Christian Tupou and Northwestern wide receiver Demetrius Fields...

Today |HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ GOLF| Hub City Invitational (Aberdeen Central, Mitchell, Pierre, Watertown), Lee Park, 10 a.m.   |YOUTH BASEBALL| |at North Complex| |Rookie Division| |Games start at 5:30 p.m.| Rangers vs. Padres (A); White...

The Sports Xchange Bears add four players The Chicago Bears signed wide receiver Demetrius Fields, defensive tackle Corvey Irvin and defensive tackle Christian Tupou and agreed to terms with cornerback Maurice Jones, the team announced Monday. All four...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Tampa Bay Buccaneers - INSIDE SLANT After 16 seasons and a franchise-record 241 games played, defensive back Ronde Barber called it a career in football, said he was moving on to television but would not say what...

The Chicago Bears got through their first day of rookie minicamp at a high tempo in the Walter Payton Center at Halas Hall and the top two picks looked as athletic as billed. First-round draft pick Kyle Long, working at right guard, was fluid and...

The Bears got an extended look at quarterback Matt Blanchard in Friday's first rookie minicamp practice, and they have a new way of evaluating him. The team's video department mounted a small camera on the left side of Blanchard's helmet. It's an...

Corvey Irvin, a third-round draft pick by the Panthers four years ago, tried to rush the passer upfield on Kyle Long, and there was nowhere to go. Irvin, at Bears rookie minicamp on a tryout basis, wound up on his butt behind the quarterback at the...