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It's one of the biggest mistakes a general manager or coach can make. The grand proclamations, you know the ones. Our No. 1 goal is to beat Green Bay. We get off the bus running the football. We only want good character people. I like tha...

Bears GM Phil Emery is not oblivious to character issues, but he understands he has a job to do.

UCLA coach Steve Alford is trying to distance himself from a sexual assualt case involving one of his players at Iowa. Trouble is, the picture he paints of the case is not reality.

Marc Trestman can ask former boss Vince Tobin all about replacing a beloved coach. He can ask any of the '85 Bears too, about Tobin taking the place of revered defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan after the Super Bowl season. But Trestman might not like ...

Marc Trestman faces a challenge in replacing the popular Lovie Smith as coach of the Chicago Bears.

While the sheer length of Phil Emery's growing list of head coaching candidates has drawn some skepticism, some say it may just be a case of the Bears general manager biding his time until his top candidate becomes available. When that happens, ho...

A thorough search is fine, but Bears GM has to act fast when he finds his man.

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- If this is what hope feels like, um, yippee? The Chicago Bears left themselves a glimmer of a chance for a playoff berth with their 28-13 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. As the saying goes, they did what they had t...

The Bears' glimmer of hope doesn't feel very hopeful.

CHICAGO -- Brandon Marshall was well aware of the territory he officially entered Sunday. "In the third quarter, I leaned over to Jay (Cutler) and I said 'That catch puts me at 1,000 yards for six seasons in a row,' and he looked at me and said, '...

Jason Campbell is not a bitter guy. He says it wouldn't do any good anyway. But there was an unmistakable edge in his voice last August in Bourbonnais when the Chicago Bears quarterback was talking about the broken collarbone that ended his season la...

Jason Campbell gives the Bears a fighting chance until Jay Cutler returns.

It was in defeat that Jay Cutler proved his mettle as a college player, the kind of NFL quarterback he could one day be. It was in Nashville where even the losses gained him the kind of respect he still can't quite get as a pro. As the former Vand...

Uche Nwaneri can seem to some a walking stereotype, but the tattoo-loving, Jacksonville Jaguars guard is a successful businessman who successfully engages teammates in locker room discussions of politics.

CHICAGO -- Maybe it's the uniform. Or just Chicago fans' lot in life. Whatever it is, if we haven't figured it out yet, we better get used to the idea that Bears' quarterbacks are simply never going to make it easy on us. Six sacks in the first ha...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Even as a rookie, he was never shy. But Charles Tillman was amazed when he was selected with the 36th overall pick in the 2003 draft, the second-rounder out of Louisiana-Lafayette joking in his first words to the Chicago media, "...