Blair Walsh

DETROIT — Wearing a knotted tie and a focused gaze, Patrick Mannelly looked like a nervous stockbroker staring at the morning ticker as he sat on a folding chair Sunday inside the visiting Bears locker room. A few feet away, fellow Bears veteran...

DETROIT — The Bears could spend between now and wild-card weekend counting the reasons they will be sitting at home with 10 wins. A defensive meltdown in Week 13 against the Seahawks and a brutal loss at Minnesota the following week are good places...

HONOLULU -- The score wasn't close, but the action was competitive. That was the assessment of several players after the rain stayed away long enough for the NFC to put the hurt on its AFC counterparts in the Pro Bowl. Minnesota Vikings tight end Kyle...

|TV SPORTS| Tennis--Australian Open, same-day tape, 1 p.m. (ESPN2), 8 and 2:30 a.m. (ESPN2) Cycling--Tour Down Under, Stage 1, same-day tape, 2:30 p.m. (NBCSN) Men’s College Basketball--Iowa at Ohio State, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network);...

Phil Emery rolled the dice when he traded for Brandon Marshall, and the controversial wide receiver made the Chicago Bears general manager look good with a performance that on Saturday earned Associated Press All-Pro recognition. Marshall set a single-...

Minnesota Vikings linebacker and South Dakota native Chad Greenway of Mount Vernon was chosen to play in the NFL Pro Bowl as an injury replacement for Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware, who will not play because of a shoulder injury.  Greenway is the...

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Women’s College Basketball—Oklahoma State at Texas, 11:30 a.m. (FXSP); Nebraska at Penn State, 1 p.m. (ESPN2); Wisconsin at Michigan, 1 p.m. (Big 10 Network); Baylor at Kansas, 1:30 p.m. (FXSP); California at Stanford,...

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Aaron Rodgers got plenty of help. Adrian Peterson got none at all. The Green Bay Packers won a key NFC showdown against division rival Minnesota 23-14 on Sunday at Lambeau Field. With a win by the Packers (8-4) and a loss by the Bears...

GREEN BAY — Bookmakers thought the difference between Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder and backup Joe Webb was three points, as the line moved from Packers by 8 to Packers by 11 Saturday when it was announced before the game that Ponder was...

Indianapolis is in, Pittsburgh is out, and Colts interim Coach Bruce Arians has to be pinching himself. Arians, fired as Pittsburgh's offensive coordinator after last season, has coached the Colts to a wildly improbable playoff berth one season after...

After the season, the Bears plan to begin expanding Halas Hall, but they might need to build out the training room now. In what resembled a last-man-standing battle, they beat the rival Vikings 28-10 on Sunday at Soldier Field, but the badly needed...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bears got Jay Cutler back from a concussion, only to lose three more stars to injuries. Start with Devin Hester. Add Matt Forte and Charles Tillman to the list, and just for good measure, throw in two starting guards....