Ruben Brown

Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly hired veteran Harry Hiestand to his staff, as the offensive line coach and run game coordinator on Wednesday. “Harry is one of the best offensive line coaches in college football, and we are fortunate to have...

Sixth in a 14-part series leading up to the start of Bears training camp. The further the Bears get away from their appearance in Super Bowl XLI, the better the offensive line for that team, built almost exclusively through pro free agency, looks. It...

Former Hampton football coach Johnny Palmer, who set the wheels in motion for what became a football dynasty in the 1970s and beyond, will be inducted into E.C. Glass High's inaugural Hall of Fame this weekend. Palmer, an all-state center at Glass in...

Bowdle: Alice H. Wolff, 97, Bowdle and formerly of Leola, died Thursday, June 30, 2011, at Manorcare Health Services of Aberdeen. Her funeral service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 6, 2011, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Bowdle, with Pastor Patrick Hahn...

As Bears offensive linemen Terrence Metcalf and Ruben Brown remained after practice Wednesday watching offensive sets, Brown offered some encouraging words to his backup at left guard. "He just told me, 'You're fine.' He told me to just go out and play...

Look at the new Bears depth chart and one thing jumps off the page. Starting free safety Danieal Manning, the replacement for the injured Mike Brown, just became the defense's most irreplaceable player. Now nobody is suggesting Manning suddenly means as...

Cedric Benson emerged from the shower and moseyed over to his locker, glancing around him to see a room nearly void of his teammates. Benson was the first to say he wasn't alone on the field. "This was a statement," said Benson, referring to the Bears'...

Brian Urlacher could have rattled off a list of excuses to explain why the Bears, touted as the best team in the NFC entering the season, are 1-3 and buried deep beneath 4-0 division foe Green Bay. He could have looked at the injuries that kept four...

As Rex Grossman jogged onto the field to direct the Bears' first drive of the second half Sunday night, the frigid Soldier Field crowd erupted. The cheer had been rivaled to that point only by the announcement that the temperature had dropped from a...

This couldn't have been what Chad Hutchinson had in mind when he vowed to be more relaxed for Friday night's home exhibition opener at Soldier Field. On a night when the starters were scheduled to play deep into the third quarter, Hutchinson wore a...

All week, the Bears vowed to make some noise in the 86th season opener in franchise history. Instead, they couldn't hear because of it. Kyle Orton, the first rookie quarterback to start a Bears opener since Zeke Bratkowski in 1954, had his helmet...

Whether or not it was a preview of the NFC championship game as some speculate remains to be seen. And the Bears don't view themselves as the NFC champions despite crushing the defending champion Seattle Seahawks 37-6 Sunday night. But the Bears finished...