Jerry Fontenot

if Lovie Smith gets fired, how long after the purge will it take the Bears to have a winning season? -- @joshohmart, from Twitter No matter what happens the rest of the way this season, I would say the chances of the Bears being worse next season would...

TV SPORTS Soccer-UEFA Champions League, APOEL Nicosia at Lyon, 1:30 p.m. (FXSP) Men's College Basketball-Florida at Alabama, 6 p.m. (ESPN); Texas A&M at Texas Tech, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Virginia at Clemson, 6 p.m. (ESPNU); Ohio State at Minnesota, 8 p.m....

James "Big Cat" Williams ran his streak of consecutive starts to 121 when he opened at right tackle Sunday against New Orleans. Williams' status was in doubt up until game time after he injured his left hip against Atlanta last week and then missed...

In an early comparison of off-season personnel changes, the Green Bay Packers lost to the New Orleans Saints by worse than Sunday's 35-20 score. By adding defensive end Joe Johnson from the Saints and middle linebacker Hardy Nickerson from Jacksonville,...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the NFL's antidote for whatever ails your favorite team, helped the Bears out of their malaise Sunday at Soldier Field. The Bears, now 1-2, took advantage of virtually every opportunity the winless Bucs provided them en route to...

Their mission, which the Bears have chosen to accept, is to go 8-0 in the Central Division this season. They are more than halfway there (5-0) after Monday night's 34-17 dismantling of the Minnesota Vikings. "That is the goal we have set for ourselves....

The Bears will discover Thursday the true meaning of Thanksgiving, at least as the holiday applies to the NFC Central Division race. With barely enough time to swallow the stunning 16-13 overtime defeat handed to them Sunday by the opportunistic Miami...

The Bears' offense was dead on arrival Sunday. And so, with such chilling finality, is their playoff future this season after the Dallas Cowboys made themselves feel right at home at Soldier Field. Dominating virtually every offensive statistic, the...

The engaging and at times entertaining repartee between cruiserweight members of the Bears and Atlanta Falcons spilled onto the playing field Sunday. The contest went the distance in front of 62,855 ringsiders at Soldier Field—the Bears winning on...

Ominous dark clouds scudded overhead and driving rain bursts and swirling winds whistled through Joe Robbie Stadium, creating eerie special effects for the Bears and Miami Dolphins to perform in the theater of the bizarre. Maybe the victory was a fluke....

Sudden death has given sudden life to the Minnesota Vikings' playoff chances. Two plays after the Bears' Kevin Butler missed a 40-yard field goal attempt in overtime, the Vikings' Warren Moon passed 65 yards to Cris Carter for a touchdown and an...