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Too bad Bears-Cardinals local rivalry thing of past
For those who remember the bitter local rivalry that once existed between the Bears and Cardinals when both played in Chicago, Sunday's game in Glendale, Ariz., conjures up thoughts of what could have been a monumental civic clash. With the Bears in...
Tags: Soldier Field, Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins, Sports, Brian Urlacher
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18 holes with ... Joe Buck
After Joe Buck completed a round at the annual celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe a few years back, playing partner Carson Palmer asked him, "How do you not curse on the air?" It's a good thing Fox pays him to call World Series and NFC title games...
Tags: Joe Buck, Golf, Lung Cancer, Major League Baseball All-Star Game, St. Louis Cardinals
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Bears embrace change at the top
PHOENIX — At the 2010 NFL meetings at the Ritz Carlton in Orlando, the Bears front office was represented in part by Chairman Michael McCaskey, President Ted Phillips, general manager Jerry Angelo and coach Lovie Smith. At the 2013 NFL annual...
Tags: Ted Phillips, Chicago Bears, Jerry Angelo, National Football League, George McCaskey
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Reader Q&A: Dan Pompei's Bears mailbag
If Manti Te'o drops to the Bears do you take him? Also, if Matt Barkley drops to the second round do you take a gamble on him to groom him for the future? -- Tim Miller, Endwell, N.Y. I would consider Te'o if I were the Bears, without a doubt, and take...
Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Major Wright, Twitter, Inc., Sid Gillman, Matt Toeaina
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Gems from 43 All-Star Games
Interesting tidbits mined from 43 years of Tribune coverage: •A special lighting system was installed at Soldier Field to accommodate the first game in 1934. •Noble Kizer, the college coach for the inaugural game, and Bears coach George...Tags: Soldier Field, Chicago Bears, Gerald Ford, U.S. Supreme Court, Chicago Tribune
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Pride was the prize in the College All-Star Game
"This is an announcement of the most unusual football game ever scheduled." So wrote Tribune sports editor Arch Ward on July 6, 1934, in boldly peddling to the world the College All-Star Game, which would "bring together the Chicago Bears, champions...
Tags: Charity, Chicago Bears, Vince Lombardi, College Sports, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Anatomy of a Front Page
Thrown together by time and a newspaper's front page, two disparate events can become related. Forty-five years ago, a horrific flash fire killed three Apollo 1 astronauts on the launch pad, the worst disaster to that date for the nascent U.S. space...Tags: Vehicles, Services and Shopping, NASA, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975), Space Programs
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175 years of memorable, horrible, humorous and remarkable events that shaped Chicago
On March 4, 1837, exactly 175 years ago, Chicago was incorporated. Not that Flashback needed a reason, but we took this occasion to compile a very long list of events, year by year and decade by decade, that helped shape this great city. Some events...
Tags: National Museum of Mexican Art, Politics, Louis Armstrong, Chicago Blackhawks, Highway Transportation
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Oak Forest man, 76, charged in Orange Line fondling, lewdness cases
Tribune reporterA 76-year-old Oak Forest man arrested this week for masturbating on a CTA Orange Line train was linked by Chicago police to the fondling of a 15-year-old girl as she rode the same line earlier this month, Cook County prosecutors said today. William...Tags: Chicago Restaurants, Crimes, Maywood (Cook, Illinois), Prosecution, Chicago Transit Authority
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Trestman has answers for what ails Bears
Making a strong case for future Bears success like the trained lawyer he is, Marc Trestman methodically worked off note cards the longtime NFL assistant had prepared over the last two decades for this moment. Never in 22 years of calling plays had...
Tags: Lovie Smith, Chicago Bears, Sports, Rod Marinelli, Canadian Football
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Live discussion: NFL Slam with Mark and Sam
This week's Friday edition of our NFL Google+ hangout -- "NFL Slam with Mark and Sam," starring Times NFL columnist Sam Farmer and Mark Thompson of "Mark and Brian" radio fame -- will start at 11:30 a.m. today and cover a host of topics. One topic could...Tags: Sports, Google+, Bode Miller, Sean Payton, New Orleans Saints
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Bear for all seasons
In August 2001, Dick Butkus was approached with a deal. If he would record a radio advertisement, he would be given an EBCT heart scan. The scan normally would have cost about $15,000 and insurance didn't cover it. "What the hell," Butkus said. "I hadn'...
Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Injuries and Wounds, Symptoms, Knee Replacement, Arts and Culture
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