Stephen Paea

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY|  Soccer -- Premiere League, Liverpool at Swansea, 7:15 a.m. (ESPN2).  National Football League -- Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears, noon (FOX); Denver Broncos at Kansas City Chiefs, noon (CBS); San Francisco 49ers at New...

The bench players that general manager Phil Emery added to the Bears in the offseason did more than improve depth. They improved the front line too. There is little doubt that more intense completion at cornerback, defensive end, defensive tackle,...

The popular joke when the Bears traded for Jay Cutler in 2009 was that they fleeced the Broncos by including two first-round draft picks because such selections were worthless in Chicago. The trade simply spared the Bears the indignity of making even more...

The Bears didn't need Jay Cutler to be on his game to win Sunday, and it's a good thing. Cutler usually is a pretty accurate passer, but his throws frequently were not where they should have been against the Rams. He completed 54.8 percent of his...

With the kind of viciousness Chicago would support if he were a Bear, Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh violently slammed Jay Cutler into the Soldier Field sod hard enough Monday night to shake a football city's fan base. Suh's over-the-top...

It doesn't look like a fair fight. The Bears, fresh off an explosive blowout victory over the Cowboys on the national stage, against the Jaguars, who've been outscored 54-17 at EverBank Field and are 1-3. I'm going to spare the "any given Sunday" caution...

Most fans go to Bears summer training camp hoping to be entertained by spectacular offensive plays. Jay Cutler lofts a deep pass to Brandon Marshall, Devin Hester or Earl Bennett and the crowd goes wild. Matt Forte bursts through a hole and races 35...

Pardon me if I'm a smidge disjointed with this one. I have had no experience writing about a Bears offense with players at the skilled positions who are capable of taking a team to a Super Bowl. And I have no memory of a Bears defense that appears to...

CLEVELAND — There shouldn't be any doubt about Dane Sanzenbacher's roster status now. The second-year player from Ohio State was believed to be on the bubble when the Bears started practice this week. His situation got a boost after Rashied Davis,...

The image of Brian Urlacher lunging forward in a helmet and shoulders pads was something the rest of the Bears sorely missed. It was a much more pleasant view than seeing him stand on the sideline in a floppy hat. "Definitely great to have the captain...

When Brian Urlacher studies the scouting report for Sunday's season opener against the Colts, the Bears middle linebacker doesn't think about the Colts' 2-14 record from a year ago or their decision to rebuild around rookie quarterback Andrew Luck. In...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It was an uncharacteristically bad night for Charles Tillman. The 31-year-old, Pro Bowl cornerback made some rookie mistakes in the third and most meaningful exhibition, but at least it was the preseason. Tillman was...