Bear With Me: Let's look back at the Chicago sports scene in the 1980s, back at the Bears' miserable Week 5 loss in Green Bay and ahead to Sunday's game against the Falcons in Atlanta.

Imagine what Mike Ditka — who dominated in Green Bay as coach of the Bears — would’ve thought about his old team’s no-show performance on Sunday.

Sheesh, how do you think they did? The Bears' 31-7 was as ugly — and embarrassing — as it gets. There isn't enough red ink to go around.

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Enjoy this Sox ride, come what may. As for next season, there are no guarantees.

The Sox haven't won a clincher here since 1906. The South Side ought to get to see that end Thursday in Game 4 against the Guardians.

Look, it's almost like those three really bad decades for the Bears against their top rivals never even happened.

After holding the Vikings and Eagles to a combined 16 points the last two weeks, the Bears made easy work of the Jets in a 23-12 win.

The witnesses said Wilson was told he could not board an elevator reserved for media trying to get to the locker rooms and press conference rooms immediately after the game, but that he would not list...

The details of what unfolds Friday between the Wildcats and the Nittany Lions will be a secondary story to the spectacle of opening night in the new digs, which happens to come on the 100th anniversar...

“I’m just feeling pretty disappointed in myself,” Pete Crow-Armstrong said after going hitless in two wild-card games against the Padres. “But that’s for me to work on.”

We're a long, long way from 2016, when the championship-bound Cubs were able to leave a 15-game winner off the roster at each stage of the postseason.

Who’s betting on the Cubs to win Games 2 and 3 against Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and the hottest team in baseball? Any takers? Any at all?

While their tormentors — the Brewers and Dodgers — luxuriate, the Cubs and Padres have no choice but to slug it out in a best-of-three series that only makes it harder to achieve Fall Classic dreams.

Williams remains out with a Grade 2 hamstring strain, but for how much longer? Another week or two or three? Keep rolling with Keenum. Squeeze every drop he has left in his football body. Tyson Bagent...

It could have been bad for the Caleb Williams-less Bears. Instead, it was anything but as they pulled off a 27-7 surprise on "Monday Night Football." Case Keenum for mayor?

It’s only the fourth time both Chicago teams have made it to the postseason, which makes this a mighty big occasion. The Cubs-Padres and Sox-Astros wild-card series begin Tuesday.

Also on the docket: Notre Dame at Purdue, Iowa at Michigan, Oregon at USC, Texas at Tennessee, Ole Miss at Florida and Texas A&M at LSU.

It’s probably a long shot that Williams will face the Eagles on Monday, but the Bears ought to err on the side of caution even if it means starting backup Tyson Bagent the following week against the J...

Alex Bregman or Miguel Vargas? Craig Counsell or Will Venable? Our baseball coverage team selected a 17-man squad: one player at each position in the field, a designated hitter, four starting pitchers...

The earth shuddered. Spirits plummeted. Angels wept. And the Bears lost 9-3 to the Vikings.

Three words come to mind — all-out disaster — after a hideous 9-3 loss in the Bears' home opener at Soldier Field.

Instead, the Wildcats will host Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes at the lakeside pop-up venue. We've got the winner of that game and seven other college football Week 3 picks here.

The Bears look a lot better than they did at the start of last season. Wouldn't it be nice if they could get to 2-0 for only the second time since 2013?

Whoa, 59-37!? It was a season-opening win for the record books — despite the failed risk coach Ben Johnson shouldn't have taken.

Frank Main, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Sun-Times reporter, writes that he was most struck by "the courage, the camaraderie and the selflessness" of the cops and firefighters who helped sift through the ...

After Michigan's highly controversial Week 1 win, trouble awaits the Wolverines in the form of Oklahoma. No. 1-ranked Ohio State is in for a hard night at Texas, too.

Bears QBs gather virtually for a roundtable discussion.

With a few exceptions, Bears’ QB history isn’t loaded with luminaries.

Is there at least one place in Brewerland where fans still rate Counsell — Milwaukee's all-time winningest manager — ahead of his popular successor?

If you're rooting for the Irish's first national title since the 1988 season, be excited.

We went through the schedule game-by game so you don't have to. Here's how things will shake out.

The Cubs got off to a hot start in the opener of a four-game series at Wrigley Field, but the Brewers' eight-game division lead was hardly under any real threat. It feels all too familiar, doesn't it?

The Cougars have no semblance of a football facility, but the first game in school history is here anyway.

“I feel like I've grown a ton,” he told the Sun-Times, "but I have a long way to go."

Lefty Matthew Boyd, who started last year's playoff opener for the Cubs, would love another crack at it. "That's why I'm a starting pitcher," he told the Sun-Times.

Chicago baseball fans might not love the final tally, but they won’t forget it.

Both teams are good. We repeat: Both teams are good. This is real life, isn't it?

“I’m just gonna say, ‘Bear down,’ ” one fan said. “Ain’t no place like Chicago.”

Seriously, what if? Francona instead of Guillen way back when would’ve been interesting.

Boos rained down hard as the announcement flashed on the center field scoreboard.

If forcing pitcher Noah Schultz's removal in the first inning was part of the game plan, no one in the ballpark could have discerned it.

The grand prize of baseball's trade deadline was on the mound Tuesday at Wrigley Field for the two-time-defending world champions. The Cubs hope to see him again when the stage is even bigger.

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