James Williams

They were not specifically trying to save their coach's job. Nor were they trying to prove anyone wrong, shut anyone up or lay anyone out. They were certainly not attempting to move down in the draft order, but they did not particularly care if they...

South Beloit made a second-round playoff exit last year and went 0-9 as recently as 1999. But the 2002 Sobos enter Friday's Class 1A title game against El Paso with a 12-1 record and some swagger on offense. South Beloit has outscored its opponents 591-...

The Bears reached the playoffs last season by winning games that they appeared to have lost, by making that one play or two at precisely the critical moment of those games. This season they are on course to miss the playoffs because they suddenly cannot...

On the second-to-last play of the Bears' sixth straight loss Sunday, a third-and-10 from the Eagles' 24-yard line with 25 seconds remaining in regulation—a fairly important moment, as these things go—Jim Miller hurried to the line of scrimmage, rushed the...

Playing the perfect Homecoming game guests, the Bears did everything Sunday but blow up balloons and serve the punch. They allowed the second-worst defense in the league to celebrate its most suffocating performance in years. They facilitated the...

"The first-place, division-leading Bears . . . " It's a phrase that hasn't been uttered often in Chicago over the last decade. But after the Bears' 24-0 dismantling of the Cincinnati Bengals and the Minnesota Vikings' win over Green Bay on Sunday, it...

Just three games in and already it seems redundant. Already, the mistakes seem to be turning into bad habits and the explanations into excuses. A team with a bright new coaching staff and a fresh, exciting offense lost its second game in a row Sunday,...

So much for the quarterback controversy. For that matter, so much for the rest of the season. When Jim Miller tore his left Achilles' tendon Sunday afternoon in the second quarter of Buffalo's 20-3 victory over the Bears, it simplified one potential...

If the Bears can turn a 17-10 comeback victory over the Minnesota Vikings into the foundation for a season, one 12-minute stretch Sunday will loom as the turning point. It was not on the field. It was in the locker room at halftime, when the Bears made...

They were numb afterward, and the windchill had nothing to do with it. This was a dead group of players, anesthetized, undeniably finished with four games left to go and having a hard time convincing even themselves anymore that threatening to win...

The Bears left Sunday's game against Washington with a 20-15 victory that ended the Redskins' playoff plans and improved their own. But besides the win, they also wanted to make the next statement in their playoff season. In the fourth quarter, they...

Aside from Paul Edinger and R.W. McQuarters assuring themselves a standing reservation in any of St. Louis' finest restaurants and at least one kitchen table, it's impossible to determine immediately the effect of the Bears' season-ending victory over...