Chris Villarrial

For months, Westmont Hilltop senior offensive lineman Garrett Lucas has known he wanted to play football at Saint Francis University.  He made it official last week, signing his letter of intent at the high school Feb. 2. “I always felt at home...

Chances are the Bears will be singing the blues again in St. Louis Monday night after another marquee game. At 2-7, the Bears are headed nowhere any self-respecting NFL team aspires to be in January — out of the playoffs and ignored. On the other hand,...

Face down and motionless, Kordell Stewart just lay there at the 5-yard line of a Lambeau Field that delivered the coldest of realities to the Bears during Sunday's 34-21 loss to the Packers. Stewart lay so still for so long that two Bears teammates...

A look at how each player on the 2003 roster came to be a Bear. Thirty-two of the 53 players on the active roster (60.4%) were either draftees of the Bears or undrafted free agents signed with the Bears. Only one player (R.W. McQuarters) was acquired via...

If the Bears can turn a 17-10 comeback victory over the Minnesota Vikings into the foundation for a season, one 12-minute stretch Sunday will loom as the turning point. It was not on the field. It was in the locker room at halftime, when the Bears made...

Jim Miller needed neither ammunition nor anyone's permission to gloat Sunday. The point was so obvious, it barely needed to be made. Miller took the same team, the same teammates and essentially the same offense and did what Cade McNown had largely...

Heat lightning lit up the desert sky Friday night in the fourth quarter of the Bears' 27-17 exhibition loss to the Arizona Cardinals at Sun Devil Stadium. Unless the Bears caught some of that lightning in a bottle, they returned to Halas Hall for practice...

Up in the air it hung—the ball and possibly Dick Jauron's future. Jauron later said he didn't think anybody had an idea how good a kick Paul Edinger's game-winning 45-yard field goal into the teeth of a 22-m.p.h. wind Sunday at Soldier Field really was....

His voice grew louder as he tried to drive his point across, and all around him the Bears dressing room grew just a little quieter. Bryan Cox was not issuing a challenge Sunday, he was leveling a charge, one as serious as any athlete can make, and a team'...

Late in the first quarter, Bears quarterback Chris Chandler was sacked by Jets defensive end John Abraham. Left tackle Mike Gandy, who was beaten for the sack, approached Chandler afterward. "I have him," Gandy reassured Chandler. "Don't worry."...

They made a contest of it. On a nationally televised Sunday night with their peers presumably watching, it seemed that was all the Bears were capable of doing. Avoid colossal embarrassment. Perhaps regain some lost respectability. But win? Against an...

Walking slowly off the field Sunday at 3Com Park after the Bears' humbling 49-7 loss to the 49ers, Brian Urlacher seldom looked up and never removed his helmet. His team didn't show up during the game, and Urlacher felt ashamed to show his face after it....