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When the WCG team was asked to make our record predictions following the 2025 NFL schedule release, I wanted to take a cautious approach to the season, despite feeling optimistic about the coaching staff and the new additions to the roster. I’d simply been burnt by this team hanging the “offseason champs” banner too many […]
Hoping for a better Bulls performance than Saturday night’s escape. Game Info Chicago Bulls (9-7) at New Orleans Pelicans (2-15) – 7:00 p.m. CT on Chicago Sports Network (TV) and 670 The Score (Radio) Chicago Bulls Josh Giddey Coby White Tre Jones Matas Buzelis Nikola Vucevic New Orleans Pelicans Jeremiah Fears Trey Murphy III Saddiq Bey Zion Williamson Derik Queen Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelic...
The Chicago Bears caught a break when Aaron Rodgers’ left wrist prevented him from suiting up for the Pittsburgh Steelers. But the Steelers caught a break when Chicago’s Jaylon Johnson and Kyler Gordon remained on injured reserve after practicing in full on Friday. The Steelers also benefited from the Bears’ injuries to starters Theo Benedet, […]
MLB RUMORS — Brett and I got into this a bit in our latest episode of the Bleacher Nation Cubs podcast (which is still going into the offseason!), but it bears repeating in writing: For however much we may want the Cubs to add an impact bat this offseason, and for however much adding that bat at third base makes the most sense, and for however much we ALSO believe the Cubs want to continue supporting their pipeline into the NPB and Japenese-player market, we do NOT think Munetaka Murakami is ...
For the second time in four games, the Last Two Minute Report proved to be the Chicago Bulls’ friend. In the team’s closely contested 130-127 win over the Denver Nuggets, the officials missed a potentially pivotal defensive three-second call on Kevin Huerter in the final minute. If called correctly, the Nuggets would have shot a technical free throw and received the ball down 126-122. Fast forward to Saturday night’s win over the Washington Wizards, and the stakes were even higher. T...
The Cubs today announced that infielder Jonathon Long was the winner of the Buck O’Neil Cubs Minor League Player of the Year and that right-hander Jostin Florentino was the Vedie Himsl Cubs Minor League Pitcher of the Year. Long, 23, was a ninth-round pick out of Long Beach State in 2023. In his third season […]
The Chicago Bears earned another victory on Sunday, bringing their win total to eight for the first time since 2020. This time, it was a 31-28 victory at home against the Pittsburgh Steelers. It was more of the same for the Steelers, a team that has only walked away with a victory in Chicago once […]
The Chicago Bulls have been rewarded with one more nationally televised game . Coming into the 2025-26 season with low expectations, the NBA’s national broadcast schedule reflected that . The Bulls were handed only three games with the league’s new set of partners. Their first is scheduled for December 1, when they take a trip to Orlando. This will be their one and only matchup on the Peacock streaming service. They were not given any game on the NBA’s main channel in the network’s highly...
The Bears keep rolling with a 31-28 win over the Steelers at Soldier Field , and the crew is in full holiday spirit on the Bleacher Nation Bears Podcast, presented by Obvious Shirts . Hosts Patrick Flowers, Matt Rooney, and Luis Medina kick things off by sharing their biggest takeaways from another statement victory — because, at this point, it’s time to admit it: this team is good. The guys hand out their game balls, led by Montez Sweat, who delivered another dominant performance i...
Well, that was a fun one! It wasn’t pretty all day on Sunday for the Bears, but again, they were opportunistic on defense, efficient on offense, and when it got close late, they never blinked. Despite being shorthanded for what seems like the entirety of the season defensively, that unit never backs down. Whenever the offense makes a mistake, they almost always seem to bounce back and not let those mistakes add up. Coaching matters a whole lot in the NFL, and the Bears have been...
The stove is hot and even the normally cautious Cubs front office is getting in on the early moves, signing righthander Phil Maton (first noted by Michael Cerami) to a two-year deal, with an option for at third year, on Friday. Maton will turn 33 before the season starts and has bounced around the league […]
Welcome to the Week in Review: a Monday feature that looks back at the week that was for the San Antonio Spurs, takes a look at the week ahead, and more. Enjoy! Week 4: The Spurs got a couple of solid but expected wins against the Bulls and Kings, sandwiched around consecutive home losses to the […]
Even after Shota Imanaga accepted his one-year, $22M qualifying offer last week, the Chicago Cubs are expected to pursue another front-half-of-the-rotation starting pitcher this offseason. Whether that pitcher is signed out of free agency ( Dylan Cease , Tatsuya Imai , Michael King , Zac Gallen , etc.) or acquired via trade ( Joe Ryan , Kris Bubic , Sandy Alcantara , Edward Cabrera , MacKenzie Gore , etc.) remains to be seen. But the need, willingness to act, and supply of quality options...
The Cubs were in the midst of a pretty dismal season, their third losing year in a row. They were 18 games under .500 at 43-61 and 14.5 games out of first place when they hosted the Rockies in the second of a three-game series under the lights on a Tuesday. This game started out […]
The Steelers saved us from buying in and made sure their annual collapse came about a month early. They’ve gone from 4-1 with a massive lead over the 1-5 Baltimore Ravens to 6-5 and out of the playoff picture. The loss to the Chicago Bears highlighted a lot of the same issues that have plagued […]
Author’s note: Sliding this one back a few days between games with the expectation of resuming early-week postings following the holiday weekend. Have a great Thanksgiving! They will greet you with holy words and your gifts will be a blessing. Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports He shall know your ways as though born to them. CONNOR BEDARD GETS HIS SECOND CAREER HAT TRICK 🎩 🎩 🎩 pic.twitter.com/l6lTSzGUhq — NHL (@NHL) November 19, 2025 FIRST CAREER HA...
Washington Wizards rookie Tre Johnson is expected to miss “a couple of weeks” with a left hip flexor strain, head coach Brian Keefe told reporters Monday. Johnson, 19, missed Saturday’s 121-120 loss to the Chicago Bulls due to his hip injury. Keefe said Johnson has been on an “unannounced minutes restriction” this season and re-aggravated […]
If the Chicago Bulls are thankful for anything this week, it will be a three-day break. They will finally have some time to breathe following their quick trip to New Orleans tonight. After playing their sixth game in nine days, they can sit in an ice bath until Friday night’s final NBA Cup game against the Charlotte Hornets. Starting the week in NOLA. ⏰ 7 pm CT 📺 @CHSN__ 📻 @670TheScore 💻 https://t.co/YtwF0Qhgpo pic.twitter.com/uU6AuXyaZD — Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) N...
The Cardiac Bears strike again! Although most headlines about this game focused on the status of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ quarterback situation, history told us it would be a close game until the end. Well, history did not lead us astray, even if some fans wish the Bears would develop a better habit for closing out […]
Wednesday night, four of us women from the South Side Sox staff had the chance to step inside a different kind of ballpark experience. It was built not on box scores or bullpen decisions, but on stories, representation, and the women helping push the sports world forward. The Chicago White Sox hosted the latest installment […]
The Washington Wizards currently boast the NBA’s worst record at 1-15 after the Toronto Raptors blew them out by 30 points on Friday and they lost a close game to the Chicago Bulls on Saturday. Last Sunday, they got shellacked by the then-1-11 Brooklyn Nets. This slow start hasn’t been an outlier for them, either. […]
The Chicago Cubs will continue to add to their bullpen group this offseason – maybe even from the upper-tier of the free agent market – both because of an acute need, and also because they ALWAYS add lots and lots of different types of pitchers to the Spring Training mix (and then well into the season, too). If you bring in enough options, and if you’re good at selection and refining and game-planning, the Cubs have found that they can pretty much always net out three or four useful relievers ...
On a day when Chicago Bears rookies were seen early and often, no one impressed me more than Ozzy Trapilo. A second-round pick from the Bears’ 2025 NFL Draft class, Trapilo was thrust into the starting lineup at left tackle because Theo Benedet suffered an injury during the practice week that caused him to be unavailable for the team’s Week 12 win against the Pittsburgh Steelers. With Benedet out and Braxton Jones still on injured reserve, it left Trapilo as the top option to start as the...
This look is so early that we don’t have a salary number to add for Phil Maton, who the Cubs were reported to have signed late last Friday. We’ll do more of these as the offseason continues, and at some point someone will report what Maton will be getting in his two-year deal (with a […]
The most impressive thing about the Chicago Bears is that, even though they’re tied for the second-best record in the NFC at (8-3), they can be even better. There’s so much more room for the offense to grow, and the defense should be getting healthier for the playoff push. This has been an opportunistic team […]