Dan McNeil

Conservative, long-term investments are a smart person's friends. The Super Bowl, however, is a quick-strike, pump-up-the-endorphins opportunity that can't be missed. I'm backing local "stocks" such as Saints running back...

I'm in a real pickle with the Bears. I didn't get what I wanted 10 days ago, when Ted Phillips said big changes were needed and then marveled at his...

With each new year arrives a chance for reflection, an invitation to take inventory and resolve to do things a little bit differently. I embrace this tradition -- and encourage...

It's true what they say about parenthood affording us an opportunity to relive our youth. When you see the glow as a child opens a gift related to his favorite...

I don't do Year in Review. With regularity, it's tedious, uninspired. But I'll make one exception: the most crushing loss of 2009. When Norm Van Lier passed on Feb. 26,...

I don't do Year in Review. With regularity, it's tedious, uninspired. But I'll make one exception: the most crushing loss of 2009. When Norm Van Lier passed on Feb. 26,...

Wherever the line forms to apologize for investing in the Bears' opponent, I won't be in it. Spare me the sanctimonious ridicule for not subscribing to tribal loyalty, not when...

Wherever the line forms to apologize for investing in the Bears' opponent, I won't be in it. Spare me the sanctimonious ridicule for not subscribing to tribal loyalty, not when...

As another year of the poorly produced soap opera "All My Bears" winds down, speculation on which cast members return for the 2010 season has been riveting. For the first...