Fred Baxter

Comedian Kevin Hart on Saturday made an incendiary entrance at the first of his four shows at Hampton Coliseum. He slowly rose from beneath the stage amid billowing red smoke, then glided toward the audience aboard a conveyor belt. Next, tall jets of...

Ravens running back Bam Morris rushed for 130 yards and quarterback Vinny Testaverde threw for 288. The Ravens racked up 447 yards of total offense and held the opposition to 225. The New York Jets benched their starting quarterback and were 4-for-15 on...

"The first-place, division-leading Bears . . . " It's a phrase that hasn't been uttered often in Chicago over the last decade. But after the Bears' 24-0 dismantling of the Cincinnati Bengals and the Minnesota Vikings' win over Green Bay on Sunday, it...

It's New Orleans this week. Home of paper-bag-wearing fans, the Neville and Marsalis clans, crawfish Po' Boys, Girls Gone Wild and Super Bowl XX. Bears 46, Patriots 10. Grab your beignets and café au lait. Aiee! This game's in Champaign, I'm told....

James "Big Cat" Williams ran his streak of consecutive starts to 121 when he opened at right tackle Sunday against New Orleans. Williams' status was in doubt up until game time after he injured his left hip against Atlanta last week and then missed...

The Bears' foundation—running the ball—cracked severely in their 25-7 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, one of the NFL's poorest run-stopping teams. The Bears' top rusher was backup quarterback Henry Burris, who scrambled for 19 yards in two series of...

Marty Booker was limited to one catch Sunday, his fewest since the third game of last season, as the Lions were determined to make someone else in the Bears' receiver corps beat them. Booker made the one count for a 14-yard touchdown just before...

The Bears, remember them? It seems like ages ago since that Monday night pasting by the Packers. In reality it was only two weeks ago and the Bears and their fans have had the bye week to either dwell on it or forget about it. This week it's the Lions,...

Maybe the Green Bay game last Sunday was worth the experience after all. A week after being admittedly wide-eyed and in some cases overwhelmed by the playoff atmosphere in their loss to the Packers at Lambeau Field, the Bears showed Sunday that they...

Q Why did the Bears line up Brian Urlacher as a wide receiver on that two-point conversion in the first half? A The Bears tried to get fancy with a special-teams formation. Following their second touchdown, the Bears lined up as if to attempt a two-...

The Cubs haven't won a World Series since 1908 and, in that time, it's become a common exercise to inspect teams playing in the World Series for their relative ex-Cubness. As the theory goes, the more ex-Cubs, the worse a team's chance to win. Since the...

The Bears' injury nightmare deepened Monday night when left guard Rex Tucker was carted off the field in the third quarter with a dislocated ankle. Tucker, a Pro Bowl alternate last season, could be lost for the season. Tucker signed a six-year...