Todd Sauerbrun

Diane Clarke is used to standing out in a crowd. Most 6-feet tall women usually are. Her blonde hair makes her stand out even more. "I get that all the time. I've always been 'that blonde girl,' " said Clarke. "I played soccer when I was younger and...

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Doug Gabriel, one of the most prolific wide receivers in UCF football history, will be playing in his old stadium again. Gabriel signed a one-year contract Saturday with the Orlando Tuskers, who play their home games at UCF's old home, the Florida Citrus...

My favorite story It's fashionable for journalists to complain about working Super Bowls, but there are few better gigs than covering one involving your local team. It's one of those moments when you know every single word you write will be read. Play...

Another year, another unavoidable homemade sign popped up Thursday along the access road near the entry to Halas Hall intended to motivate the Bears. Last January before the playoffs, a well-meaning fan posted the message, "Play Angry,'' a motto the...

The season was all but over. A little more than 5 1/2 minutes remained in regulation Sunday and the Denver Broncos led the Bears by 14. Rex Grossman was staggering through a three-turnover day. Cedric Benson was on crutches after suffering a first-half...

Two weeks after a congressional hearing intensified the steroids spotlight on baseball, the onus of abusing performance-enhancing drugs shifts to the NFL tonight. In the television show 60 Minutes Wednesday, CBS will report that three members of the...

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 aren’t playing the Super Bowl, but what's happening in San Diego still involves Chicago. For example, did you know that the Raiders have a couple of Brian Piccolo award winners? And that the only school with more players on the Tampa Bay roster...

A typically sloppy preseason game? Or a game typical of what will be a sloppy team? You make the call. Actually, the replay official did in reversing a safety after Pittsburgh's block of a Todd Sauerbrun punt and calling it a touchdown to give the...

He received his "Welcome-to-the-NFL, son" four plays into his pro career, a Colts sandwich that left Cade McNown picking himself up 9 yards behind the line of scrimmage and surely knowing what they meant when they warned him about the speed of pro...

This is not the quarterback controversy anyone had in mind, but the Bears just backed themselves into a three-way debate involving youth, experience and a guy in street clothes who nurses a sore hamstring and is looking better and better all the time....