Melissa Isaacson

For him, it almost constituted surliness. "Thirteen and two," Rashied Davis proclaimed to no one in particular Sunday in the winners' locker room. "The worst 13-2 team in the league."...

Mark Anderson moves slowly, not at all like a 23-year-old who has established a Bears rookie record with 10 sacks but like a veteran who has just played his 14th...

My favorite story The snowflakes were fluttering down on Turin's public square, Piazza San Carlo, as if specially ordered by either NBC or the Olympic host committee. The picturesque scene,...

For a short while Monday night, it looked as if Thomas Jones and his Bears running mates would be upstaged by none other than Rex Grossman, who with one 22-yard...

"I'm not a football player." Brad Maynard is laughing both times he says this, wondering how a reporter or any Bears fan could possibly be interested in anything he has...

`I'd rather not talk," Cedric Benson explained patiently as reporters visited his locker Sunday. Seldom has an athlete been more polite or looked more uncomfortable turning down interviews than Benson,...

It is Wednesday of Patriots week and practice has been over for more than an hour, but the words are still ringing in Danieal Manning's ears. "Strip the ball, strip...

The relentless pounding that beats him up and wears him down is still the sweetest tonic for Bears right guard Roberto Garza. Give an offensive lineman a game like Sunday's...

When Rex Grossman trudged off the field Sunday night, fresh off a costly interception on the Bears' first possession, backup Brian Griese was not waiting on the sideline with a...

A loss was not in Dave Toub's schedule, not the slightest consideration among the precise details of his preparation this week or any other. Were the signs there that would...