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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 […]
Before Sunday’s game, I said my attention was on more than the final score of the game against the NHL-best Colorado Avalanche. On paper, the Blackhawks should have been boat raced out of their own barn. Especially coming out of a game in Buffalo in which they gave up nine goals. I wanted to see the young Blackhawks turn their worst performance of the year into a nothing and compete. The Blackhawks did that on Sunday. And, while I know I have never been one to preach moral victories ...
This is your daily thread to talk about the latest hockey news. BLACKHAWKS RECAPS: Avalanche 1, Blackhawks 0 ( SCH ) ( Sun-Times ) ( Tribune ) ( The Athletic ) Dickinson returns to lineup after latest frustrating injury ( Sun-Times ) Bedard, Nazar proving they’re ready to pilot Blackhawks’ next leadership group ( Sun-Times ) Blackhawks prospect Mason West gets his fairy tale ending with state football championship ( The Athletic ) 21 thoughts on the Blackhawks aft...
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past. Here’s a handy Cubs timeline, to help you follow the various narrative paths. “Maybe I called it wrong, but it’s official.” — Tom Connolly, HoF Umpire. Happy birthday to Dave Hansen* and other former Cubs. Today in baseball history: Cubs Birthdays: […]
The Steelers are now 1-13 all-time in Chicago following Sunday’s 31-28 loss to the Bears. As always, there are plenty of takeaways to be had. 1. The Steelers had the right gameplan — and then they didn’t Outside of an early Mason Rudolph interception, the Steelers offense was largely efficient in the first half. The […]
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The Chicago Bears need just one more win in their last six games to ensure their first winning record since 2018. Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and Chicago is not only in the playoff mix, but they’re in the three seed atop the NFC North, and they control their playoff destiny. The Bears are […]
In another busy back-to-back weekend set the Colorado Avalanche concluded their road trip with another divisional foe in the Chicago Blackhawks. In the past this matchup has been a bit of trouble but Scott Wedgewood was up to the task, crafting his own shutout on the weekend with 22 saves in a 1-0 Avalanche victory. […]
The Blackhawks were shut out for the first time this season at home on Sunday night, losing 1-0 to the Colorado Avalanche. Chicago had some golden opportunities in the opening 20 but the first period ended scoreless. Colorado took over in the second and then opened the scoring when Cale Makar fired this rebound home with 1:39 left before the second intermission: Cale Makar snipes home the rebound to open the scoring pic.twitter.com/oVpSczcNZD — BHF (@BlackhawksFocus) November 2...
The Chicago Bears play in the City of Brotherly Love on Black Friday against the Philadelphia Eagles, and just as no one predicted when the schedule was announced, it’ll be the first-place (8-3) Bears looking to keep it going vs the first-place (8-3) Eagles. Our friends at FanDuel Sportsbook have the defending Super Bowl champion […]
The Detroit Lions eked out a win, although they still remain outside of the NFC playoff picture thanks to wins from the Packers and Bears on Sunday. But the NFC playoffs are far from settled and Sunday will close out with a big game that could have big implications for the race. The 8-2 Los […]
The Pittsburgh Steelers lost control of the AFC North and their place in the AFC playoff picture this Sunday with a 31-28 loss to the Chicago Bears. The Steelers’ offense stalled on their final drive with a chance to get into field goal range and potentially send the game into overtime. Pittsburgh’s defense made a […]
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Will Dawkins said minutes will be earned, not given this season. Yet, despite Cam Whitmore’s 20-point night, Brian Keefe sat him the final 3:41 of regulation and played Bub Carrington over him on the final offensive possession. Greg Finberg shares his thoughts on Washington’s 121-120 loss to the Chicago Bulls.
Now that our heart rates have come back to normal levels, we can fully enjoy Bears Head Coach Ben Johnson deliver his “Good, Better, Best” speech from the locker room. These don’t get old: It takes a village pic.twitter.com/0edpSAiu89 — Chicago Bears (@ChicagoBears) November 23, 2025 Bears Head Coach Ben Johnson gives game balls to Montez Sweat, D’Marco Jackson If you would have told me that a pair of Bears defenders would have gotten game balls from Ben Johnson after...