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Blackhawks prospect Vaclav Nestrasil is surprising himself with how well he’s playing during his first stretch of college hockey. The Czechia native and 25th overall pick in the 2025 NHL Draft, now a freshman at UMass, leads his new team …

With Rome Odunze a late scratch before kickoff Sunday, the Bears needed another receiver to step up. Rookie Luther Burden did — until he left the game in the third quarter after hurting his ankle on a screen pass. By …

A 14-year-old girl from Chicago was killed Saturday morning in a car crash on a Springfield highway. The girl, whose name has not been released, was the passenger in a car involved in a multi-vehicle crash on I-55, according to …

Browns edge rusher Myles Garrett had 1½ sacks, moving him within one sack of tying the NFL’s single-season record. The Giants’ Michael Strahan and the Steelers’ T.J. Watt share the record, with 22½. Strahan set the mark in 2001, and …

A 14-year-old boy was shot in the foot while walking in Roseland early Sunday, Chicago police said. The teen was in the 100 block of West 95th Street when he felt “numbness in his foot” around 3:50 a.m., police said. …

About two hours before Sunday’s kickoff, Patrick Vanier grilled chicken wings and Polish sausage with his family at the Waldron Deck lot outside Soldier Field. The temperature was 5 degrees. Vanier, who lives in Hammond, Indiana, took the train up …

Lights, camera, fashion! Chicago may not come to mind when it comes to fashion capitals, but the inaugural Chicago Fashion Awards Saturday honored scores of emerging and established “creatives pushing the city’s culture forward,” showing that creators and artists don’t …

Man, it was cold Sunday at Soldier Field. How cold? So cold, surrounding trees chopped themselves into firewood. Fans in the stands chipped their teeth on Italian sausages. Punts froze in midair. Way too cold for the Bears to be …

SYDNEY — Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi beach, killing 15 people, including a child, officials said Monday, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism that struck at the heart …

“A people still, whose common ties are gone; Who, mix’d with every race, are lost in none.”— George Crabbe You can shave your beard, move to Australia — or your grandparents could, permitting you to party on a New South …

What marks do the Bears get after their 31-3 beatdown of the Browns at Soldier Field? QUARTERBACK — A-MINUS Against an opponent as unlikely to score as the Browns are, you gladly take the bad with the good with Caleb …

Bears cornerback C.J. Gardner-Johnson was asked about rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders and looked down at a pretend watch on his right wrist. “It’s about time he ran into some problems,” he said after Sunday’s 31-3 win over the Browns. “He’s …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The final images of the Kansas City Chiefs’ postseason pursuit were Patrick Mahomes getting helped to the locker room with what turned out to be a torn ACL in his left knee, a white towel draped …

DJ Moore was surprised Caleb Williams even tried to throw the ball. The Bears quarterback faked a handoff and rolled right in the third quarter of what would become a 31-3 win against the lowly Browns on Sunday at Soldier …

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Matthew Stafford passed for 368 yards and hit Colby Parkinson for two touchdowns, and the NFC-leading Los Angeles Rams clinched a playoff berth with a furious second-half rally for a 41-34 victory over the Detroit Lions on …

The Bears‘ rematch against their rival will likely take place without the Packers’ best player. Edge rusher Micah Parsons was helped off the field in Denver on Sunday after suffering what appeared to be a non-contact knee injury. ESPN reported …

Patrick Finley and Jason Lieser break down the Bears’ win against the Browns at Soldier Field. 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” …

Amanda Wojciechowski was taking her daughters to a Jewish and Catholic holiday celebration Sunday morning when she heard the news that a gunman had shot and killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in an act …

Before leading the Bears in his trademark “Good, Better, Best” cheer to celebrate the team’s 10th win, head coach Ben Johnson handed out two game balls. The first went to linebacker D’Marco Jackson, whose third-quarter interception started a run of …

Bulls forward Matas Buzelis has had to guard up the positional spectrum and defend bigger forwards as the Bulls’ optimal power forward. Buzelis added 10 pounds of muscle to endure more of that contract and dish out some punishment of …