Chris Williams

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - St. Louis Rams - INSIDE SLANT The Rams opened OTAs this week five weeks after the first phase of the offseason program began, and while optimism is high following last season's 7-8-1 record, quarterback Sam...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - St. Louis Rams - INSIDE SLANT Rams second-year guard Rokevious Watkins has been suspended for the first game of the 2013 season for violating the NFL Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse, the league confirmed...

NFL Team Report - St. Louis Rams - INSIDE SLANT Rams quarterback Sam Bradford was at practice Tuesday as the team held its first OTA of the offseason. But his mind was in Oklahoma City, his hometown, where the devastating tornado hit Monday afternoon....

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - St. Louis Rams - INSIDE SLANT They played together at West Virginia and lit up the scoreboard in the high-flying Mountaineers offense. Here they are again, wide receivers Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey as...

TODAY HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD  Aberdeen Central at Mark Wendelgass Invitational in Huron, 4 p.m.  Region 1B at Groton, 10 a.m. (Aberdeen Christian, Frederick, Grant-Deuel, Hitchcock-Tulare, Langford Area, Northwestern, Rosholt, Summit, Warner,...

INDIANAPOLIS — The left tackles will be on parade here at the NFL scouting combine like beauty pageant contestants on a runway through Tuesday. Lumpy, hairy, 4-XL contestants, that is. The draft prospects will go through the drills, interview...

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Sunshine has not been difficult to find at the oceanfront site of the NFL meetings, but Lovie Smith brought more of it Wednesday in a breakfast with the media. The Bears coach was particularly optimistic about the addition of...

PHOENIX — Perhaps they should rename them the Chicago Vultures. Somewhere along the way, the Bears have become scavengers, sustaining themselves on what other teams have left behind. If you had to project the Bears' 2013 starting lineup in...

If Bears general manager Phil Emery had put a spin on Mick Jagger during the course of the NFL draft, he might have sung, "You can't always get what you need. But if you try sometime, you just might find, you get what you want." From the third round on,...

When the Lions and their fans look at how dominating the Bears defense and its scheme has been, they have to think, "That should have been us." In 2006, Matt Millen hired Rod Marinelli as head coach of the Lions. Then in 2008, the Lions became the...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - St. Louis Rams - INSIDE SLANT As the Rams concluded the 2013 draft, happy with the latest additions to one of the youngest rosters in the National Football League, they had to credit the results to a chain reaction...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Bears came to MetLife Stadium on Friday night looking for a couple of answers. Maybe some solutions emerged, but there are still more questions remaining for this team with time for evaluations and Plan B discoveries...