Darnell Autry

Northwestern's Gator Bowl preparation included a Monday night trip to Dave & Busters, a Tuesday visit to the United Center for Celtics-Bulls and a Thursday stop at Pinstripes for bowling, bocce and team bonding. “Our bowl week here is unique and...

Northwestern University playing in the Rose Bowl? Even a winning season had seemed too much to hope for. But in 1995, Northwestern accomplished the impossible, even pushing Michael Jordan and the Bulls off the front page for a while. The Wildcats came out...

Try as they might, it just didn't feel like an NFL game. The constant throbbing of rock music pumped through sideline speakers between each play made it sound more like the NBA. The cheerleaders, on loan from the World League of American League,...

Here's the update you've been waiting for: The Soldier Field crowd cheered respectfully for Mike Ditka. Ditka shook hands with Mike McCaskey. The Saints can't score and the Bears can't tackle. And, oh yeah, Dave Wannstedt made the right decision on...

If the Bears have not exactly embraced their fate as participants in one of the worst football seasons in their history, they have now, it seems, accepted it. With an odd sense of detachment at 1-10, they numbly go through the motions of analyzing each...

Maybe the scariest part is that the Bears, to a man, did not know what to say. That they were neither angry nor frustrated as much as positively bewildered. That they had absolutely no clue how to explain what they all admitted was an appalling 32-7...

They all had their reasons. And who's to argue? Except, of course, those Bears fans who would just as soon the team forfeited the remainder of its schedule to secure as high a draft choice as possible. For quarterback Erik Kramer, defeating the Buffalo...

The off-season envelops them now like both a tropical-island retreat and a long, dark tunnel: enticing for its instant relief, repellent for its protracted agony. And Sunday's hideous 31-15 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers only reinforced the conflict....