Walt Harris

The Historic Rivers Chapter of the Virginia Master Naturalists recently graduated 21 new members from Basic Training. New volunteers started their training in September and completed required classes and field trips early in March, according to a news...

Missing training camp and the preseason had different consequences for the face of the Bears and the face of the Jaguars. For Maurice Jones-Drew, who sat out in a contract dispute, missing time was a benefit. "I might be a little fresher, not taking...

Unbuckling the mailbag: Question: USC hangover? As a Stanford fan, this is painful but familiar. Alicia Dingsdale Answer: You're not kidding. Stanford looked like it spent its bye week after USC wasting away again in Margaritaville. Blew out my flip-...

Less than a month after two alums were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Pitt Panthers lost to a Championship Subdivision opponent for the first time. Those two events illustrate the opportunity and challenge confronting rookie head...

UConn made its first Big East home game and its first night game at Rentschler Field an auspicious occasion Thursday. The Huskies gave a sellout crowd of 40,000 plenty to cheer about in a 29-17 victory over Pittsburgh. A snarling defense, Cornell...

If only the Bears had finished Saturday night's 31-28 exhibition victory over the 49ers with the biggest concerns about Rex Grossman being his ability to handle the quarterback-center exchange. Those worries, resurfacing when Grossman dropped the snap...

The quarterback's buddy had an idea for meeting girls. He made a shirt that read "I'm Joe Flacco" across the chest and wore it for a night out on the University of Delaware campus. The guise of a future NFL draft pick would have to improve his romantic...

Going into Friday night, Stephen King novels had more suspense than the Bears' depth chart. In lieu of position battles, precision was the focus. That precision still must be in Bourbonnais, at Halas Hall or back at O'Hare. It certainly didn't get...

So, maybe Curtis Conway had a point. Less work, not more, the wide receiver said a week ago, was just the tonic a lethargic and recently defeated Bears team needed to find itself. And lo and behold, after a week in which travel time from Ireland exceeded...

An ominous shadow of doubt continued to grow over and within the Bears on Sunday, as a 21-14 loss to the Detroit Lions ran their record to 0-4 and their answers to zero. The defeat was the Bears' eighth in their last nine games and their 12th in the last...

Jim Miller needed neither ammunition nor anyone's permission to gloat Sunday. The point was so obvious, it barely needed to be made. Miller took the same team, the same teammates and essentially the same offense and did what Cade McNown had largely...

There is no such thing as a turning point when there are seven of them. No credible big-play alibi when the other team has five. No real excuse for leading 20-9 only to lose 30-27. Not when you're supposed to be a team with a legitimate playoff agenda....