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Fans of good TV know Shawn Ryan, even if they don't know they know Shawn Ryan. Few producers have racked up his level of critical acclaim, for shows like 'The Unit,' 'Terriers,', 'Lie to Me,' and his signature show, 'The Shield,' which ran 88 epis...

ESPN Chicago's Hot Button topic of the week: Whose fate was more disappointing: Bulls without Rose or Bears without Cutler?...

So what could we possibly have done to deserve this sentence of six months in professional sports hell? Which of the sporting gods did Chicago offend to bring about this karma? I grew up accepting the Cubs were cursed, but not the Bears and Bulls, to...

Rose and Cutler enhanced Chicago's reputation as a cursed sports town.

Jay Cutler's bookend injuries summed up the year in Chicago sports.

The late Don Smith never claimed his passer-rating formula was perfect. Quite the opposite, in fact. "Some people call it a quarterback rating system, but that really is not what it is," Smith told me during a 2002 interview. "It's simply a pas...

Over the next few weeks, we'll take a closer look at each player on the Bulls roster and see where they fit in for the future. To start us off, let's begin with the only athlete in the city that may overtake Jay Cutler at some point as, "Most Dislike...

CHICAGO -- The snow is still Garrett Wolfe-high on my block and every pixilated image of Jay Cutler in shorts and a cardigan, sour-pussing his way through life, just makes me angry. Mostly because he gets to wear flip-flops outdoors and we're stuck h...

Plenty to keep Chicago sports fans busy until the Bears hit training camp.

By playing through the pain Friday, Derrick Rose showed why he's one of the NBA's most valuable players.

If life were fair, the Chicago Bears wouldn't have had to spend the past two days defending Jay Cutler's character or his toughness, or criticizing the fast-twitch criticism of their NFL peers.

MIAMI -- It's Tuesday. So that could mean only one thing: It's weigh-in day for LeBron James. No, not weigh-in as step on the scale and measure his body-fat percentage. That's another day. (Seriously. The Heat do checks on a regular basis. It's th...

Sunday afternoon, before any diagnosis was made on the left knee of Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, I joked with my dad about the result of the game. Albert Pena/Icon SMI How does Kobe's legendary toughness color the way we see the rest of the ...

Charles Barkley was at Soldier Field on Sunday for the NFC Championship Game, and he said he knew Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was going to get criticized for leaving the game in the third quarter with a knee injury.

When it comes down to it, Jay Cutler is picked on because he is not well-liked.

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