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Injuries, The NFL's Great Equalizer
Web ReporterInjuries are more than the great equalizer in the NFL, they can be the grim reaper for a team's season. Already, a handful of clubs are dealing with the absence of key players, some of whom are pretty much irreplaceable. A year ago, two defending...Tags: Super Bowl, Randy Thomas, Washington Redskins, Surgery, Jamal Williams
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Super Bowl wings turn turkey
Ever wonder if you went kind of crazy and nobody noticed? Back to that nutty notion in a second, for I've got wings to prepare -- turkey wings for the Big Game.
"Why turkey wings?" you ask. "Aren't they tougher than Bronko Nagurski's helmet?"
Well,...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Football, Honey, Super Bowl, National Football League
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The Chicago Bears win the 1986 Super Bowl
Chicago TribuneThe Chicago Bears devastated the New England Patriots on this date in Super Bowl XX by an appropriate score, 46-10, stamping their ravaging "46" defense on National Football League history. The victory in New Orleans' Superdome, the first major...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Football, George Halas, New England Patriots, Super Bowl
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Select company
Tribune staff reporterThe 1983 draft put the Bears on the path to the Super Bowl two years later. The Bears picked up Walter Payton in 1975, which made that a watershed draft. But when it comes to the best draft in Bears history, it is no contest. On Nov. 28, 1964, the...Tags: Arts and Culture, John Wooden, George Halas, Super Bowl, Gale Sayers
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Smashing finish by Cubs
Tribune staff reporterMost of the Cubs weren't born when Willie Smith hit his game-winning home run on Opening Day of the 1969 season, and neither were many of the fans in the newly renovated bleachers on Saturday afternoon at Wrigley Field. But just as Smith's two-run shot...Tags: Jim Edmonds, Chris Carpenter, Cy Young, Ronny Cedeno, Gale Sayers
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Jeff Garlin on the Cubs
While Paul Sullivan power-loafs in Uptown, Chicago's own Jeff Garlin pinch-hits with a very special edition of Ask Jeff. Here's Jeff's take on Prior vs. Zambrano, trade talk and whatever happened to the 'ol squeeze? What's up Jeff? Who do you think...Tags: Career and Workplace, Lou Piniella, Kevin Brown, Alex Rodriguez, Tampa Bay Rays
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Larry Fitzgerald Sr. will have a unique Super Bowl week
WatchdogESPN's Rick Reilly on the guy with the most unusual sportswriting assignment in the history of the Super Bowl. Speaking of ESPN and The Big Game . . . click below for 2,100 words on the network's plans for covering......Tags: Super Bowl, Hines Ward, Magazines, Services and Shopping, United States
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Hampton joins club
Tribune pro football reporterDan Hampton's day in the 93-degree sun fittingly began in a parade where he sat in a car with presenter Ed O'Bradovich between two high school marching bands. Hampton might have been just as happy playing the saxophone he reluctantly gave up in 11th...Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events, George Halas, Dining and Drinking, Al Harris
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Making a splash, then quick dash
Tribune staff reporterIf Chad Hutchinson has a role model these days, it should be Virgil Carter. The parallels abound. In 1968, Carter, like Hutchinson on Sunday, was the fourth quarterback of the season for the struggling Bears. He came out of nowhere (in Carter's case,...Tags: Bud Grant, Football, Brigham Young, George Halas, Cliff Robertson
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Chargers Charge Gaps All the Way to the Top
Latimes.com ColumnistThe San Diego football team has seized first place in the AFC West this year with carefully coached, uniquely aggressive defensive men who attack not the players in the offensive line but the gaps between those players. Up and down the line, as the...Tags: Arts and Culture, University of Southern California, Bill Walsh, Super Bowl, Education
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The good sport
Sun StaffLike all politicians, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has them: those authorized tales from youth that - though twisted or embellished over the years - help define the person he is today. There is the humble-beginnings-in-a-rowhouse-in-Arbutus legend. There is the...Tags: Arts and Culture, Korean War (1950-1953), Jimmy Carter, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Dining and Drinking
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Unbearable start to season
Tribune staff reporterWalking slowly off the field Sunday at 3Com Park after the Bears' humbling 49-7 loss to the 49ers, Brian Urlacher seldom looked up and never removed his helmet. His team didn't show up during the game, and Urlacher felt ashamed to show his face after it....Tags: Josh Warner, Bill George, Baltimore Colts, Jeff Garcia, Terry Jackson
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