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Baseball’s GM meetings are rarely the site of big-money free-agent deals and blockbuster trades. But might this year’s edition, happening this week in Las Vegas, be different? With what’s expected to be a lengthy lockout looming, there’s a curiosity over …

Ben Johnson had just handed out game balls to three Bears players after their Monday night win in Seattle when Kyler Gordon reached out and slapped a sticker on his coach’s chest. It was a sticker of Johnson doing the …

A man’s body was pulled out of the Chicago River Sunday afternoon in Albany Park on the Northwest Side. The body was recovered from the water around 1:20 p.m. in the 3000 block of West Argyle Street, according to Chicago …

The Bears’ NFL brethren didn’t do them any favors Sunday. Certainly not the amateur-hour Dolphins, who held down Jared Goff, Jahmyr Gibbs and the Lions’ No. 1-ranked offense admirably enough but never really threatened in a 19-9 loss in Miami …

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Jordan Love threw for 372 yards and three touchdowns and ran for a score, and the Green Bay Packers scored 21 points off four New England Patriots turnovers to roll to a 45-27 win on Sunday. Green …

Bulls point guard Josh Giddey is painfilly aware of his slow start to the season. His shooting percentage and scoring average are well below where he finished last season, and he said he still was trying to figure out how …

LeBron James did what he does against the Bulls on Sunday — score. James hit his first bucket of the game, a three-pointer, to give him the most career points of anyone against the Bulls. He finished with 22 points …

The Blackhawks‘ first change of hopefully several this week came Sunday as Drew Commesso replaced Arvid Soderblom as the team’s backup goalie. The move ends Soderblom’s run of more than three seasons as the Hawks’ backup. The 27-year-old Swede, who …

NBC play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico, who was slated to call his 300th NFL game Sunday night, was replaced by Noah Eagle. Tirico said in a statement released around noon Sunday that a health issue would prevent him from calling the …

The Bears‘ need for cornerback help before Tuesday’s trade deadline might have just gotten more serious. Slot cornerback Kyler Gordon, whose four sacks in three games this season made him Dennis Allen’s most successful blitzer, left Sunday night’s game against …

Five turnovers, four of them interceptions thrown by Caleb Williams. Some worrisome injuries, too. That the Bears won 27-24 against the Buccaneers to get to 7-2 is the main thing — it is, isn’t it? — but, in a bubble, …

Going into this season, it would’ve been hard to envision a scenario in which quarterback Caleb Williams was a wreck and the Bears got bailed out by their defense. That bizarre combination was exactly how they survived the Buccaneers on …

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Bears quarterback Caleb Williams played one of the worst games of his career Sunday against the Buccaneers and still got away with a 27-24 win. Williams threw a career-high four interceptions — he’d never thrown more than two — and …

Jeffery Simmons’ social media timeline told him of the plan by Bears fans Sunday night: to wear orange to welcome him to his first game at Soldier Field. When the defensive tackle ran out of the tunnel wearing his trademark …

Yes, the ball landed in their cornerbacks’ arms, at times, as though it had been flown in via remote control. Yes, the opposing receivers dropped passes like they the ball was made of molten lava. But say this: the Bears …

Patrick Finley and Jason Lieser break down the Bears’ ugly 27-24 victory over the Buccaneers. New episodes of “Halas Intrigue” will be published regularly with accompanying stories collected on the podcast’s hub page. You can also listen to “Halas Intrigue” …

At some point during the ugly Bears-Buccaneers tussle Sunday night at Soldier Field, kicker Cairo Santos turned to his teammates on the bench at made a declaration: at some point the game would be tied, probably something like 20-20, and …

Looks like Alsip Mayor John Ryan might be able to stick around elected office a while longer. A referendum in the south suburb overwhelmingly passed in the Nov. 3 general election that is set to expand term limits from three …

Chicagoans want the city to develop a permanent space for large-scale music festivals and outdoor events. That was the message sent during last week’s election, when 68% of voters supported the non-binding ballot measure introduced by 11th Ward Ald. Nicole …