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The Sports Xchange Bears to stop retiring numbers after Ditka's 89 Mike Ditka's No. 89 will be the last one the Chicago Bears retire. The Bears, who plan to honor Ditka during their game against the Dallas Cowboys on Dec. 9 at Soldier Field, have...

Doc Rivers has three years left on his contract with the Celtics, but that's not stopping some desperate teams from making a run at the Celtics coach. The Brooklyn Nets asked the Celtics for permission to talk to Rivers, but ESPNBoston.com reports that...

The Sports Xchange Bears to retire Ditka's No. 89 The Chicago Bears announced Friday that they will retire Mike Ditka's No. 89. Ditka, a Hall of Fame tight end with the Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys, also coached the Bears. His number will be...

It appears we have a job opening in Chicago. With Brian Urlacher's retirement official, I am afraid that we need to officially post "the guy who owns Chicago" job on Craigslist. This is a tough one, because we can't just pass it out to anyone. Past...

There will be no purple smudge on the accomplishments of Brian Urlacher. The sight of him with some sort of cat or bird on his helmet never will make anyone wince. He will not have that moment when he makes us recall Willie Mays with the Mets....

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT In his one season of major-college football, Bears first-round pick Kyle Long started his only five games at left guard. But he lined up exclusively at right guard during the weekend's...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT If 2011 first-round pick Gabe Carimi is trying to punch his ticket out of Chicago after two disappointing seasons, he's on the right path. Carimi is absent from OTAs that started this...

I've long speculated that Jason Taylor will soon hold an important position in the Miami Dolphins organization. That time hasn't come yet, but Taylor did taken a step in that direction this week when the NFL Foundation chose him to serve on the...

The week before The Squared Circle opened in mid-March, owner and pro wrestler Lisa Marie Varon — better known as Victoria during her WWE days and Tara currently with TNA wrestling — sat in a corner booth of her Lincoln Park restaurant,...

The Chicago Bears got through their first day of rookie minicamp at a high tempo in the Walter Payton Center at Halas Hall and the top two picks looked as athletic as billed. First-round draft pick Kyle Long, working at right guard, was fluid and...

The Sports Xchange EditorsNote: subbing all NFL roundup: Mathieu will let his actions speak for him As expected, much of the attention at the Arizona Cardinals' rookie minicamp over the weekend was on defensive back Tyrann Mathieu, the team's third-...

Alberto Reyes looked across the well-kept field at Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep during pregame warm-up drills Saturday evening and declared it a beautiful place for a baseball game. Two weeks after their originally scheduled game, players and coaches...