John Mullin

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...

Offense: D+ Minnesota's defense gradually overpowered the Bears in the second half, but Kyle Orton played with poise in his first game in two years and had the Bears in...

OFFENSE D Brian Griese was pressed into service when Rex Grossman went down with an injured left knee. Griese started abysmally, reprising the turnover form that led to his losing...

OFFENSE D Brian Griese was pressed into service when Rex Grossman went down with an injured left knee and started abysmally with a pass toward Devin Hester that was intercepted...

Offense D Rex Grossman completed his first five passes for an opening touchdown and should have had a second, but a wide-open Devin Hester dropped a ball in the second...

OFFENSE D+ The failure to score more than a total of three points from possessions starting at the Denver 16- and 14-yard lines, the second on a Rex Grossman fumble,...

Next year this game will be "The Battle of the Bronze Stalk" as Ball State and Northern Illinois begin competing annually for a bronze replica of a cornstalk. This year,...

OFFENSE B- Welcome back, Rex Grossman. The once-defrocked quarterback ignited interest if not production, taking over when Brian Griese was hurt and completing a game-winning TD pass of 59 yards...

OFFENSE F Failing to score any points on five drives starting from the Bears' 35 or closer was a compendium of disaster. Brian Griese completed 22 of 40 passes for...