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Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady (12) walks to the bench after the team's final possession of the game during the fourth quarter against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020.

Winners and losers from the Chicago Bears’ Week 5 win: Tom Brady is old, something happened to Terry Bradshaw’s head and the White Sox were forgotten (again)

October 9, 2020 at 3:08 p.m.

Eventually everything that can happen does happen and Tom Brady finally lost a "Thursday Night Football" game. Brady's now 7-1 on Thursday and 5-1 vs. the Bears after the Buccaneers...

Bears outside linebacker Khalil Mack (52) warms up before the start of a game against the Colts at Soldier Field.

Joe Buck and Troy Aikman will call Thursday’s Bears-Buccaneers game. But there’s more options, thanks to Amazon Prime and Twitch.

October 6, 2020 at 9:58 a.m.

When the Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers meet Thursday night, fans locked out of Soldier Field will have no shortage of ways to watch the game. Alexa, give us...

Chicago Bears defensive end Akiem Hicks (96) is called for a facemask penalty on Indianapolis Colts running back Jonathan Taylor (28) in the fourth quarter at Soldier Field in Chicago on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020.

Chicago Bears’ local TV ratings hit a season high as the team suffers its 1st loss in Week 4

October 5, 2020 at 1:36 p.m.

Buoyed by a late-afternoon kickoff and perhaps expectations from their 3-0 start, the Chicago Bears scored their best local TV ratings of the season Sunday even as they dropped their...

Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. reacts after hitting a three-run home run during the sixth inning of Game 2 of a wild-card game against the Cardinals on Oct. 1, 2020.

Stop changing the channel and turn down the fake crowd noise. Here’s how to fix MLB’s postseason TV coverage.

October 5, 2020 at 5:21 p.m.

With one week of Major League Baseball's postseason down and the division series starting in the Texas and California bubbles, here are three things that need to be fixed with...

Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky walks off the field after a loss to the Colts.

Winners and losers from the Chicago Bears’ Week 4 loss: The Bear Raid siren, Rich Gannon’s unfortunate ‘contagious disease’ mention and Mitch Trubisky

October 5, 2020 at 6:48 a.m.

To watch Sunday's 19-11 Chicago Bears loss to the Indianapolis Colts was to be reminded how an ill-timed simile can evoke an ewww rather than an ahhh. CBS analyst and...

Bears coach Matt Nagy argues a penalty call in the fourth quarter against the Giants on Sept. 20 at Soldier Field.

4 Bears-Colts insights from CBS analyst Rich Gannon: Matt Nagy’s team might be 3-0, but ‘there is a lot of work that has to get done. There’s a lot to clean up.’

October 4, 2020 at 3:30 a.m.

Even before the Chicago Bears-Indianapolis Colts game was moved into the late-afternoon CBS Sunday showcase vacated when the New England Patriots-Kansas City Chiefs game was postponed because of COVID-19 concerns,...

Marc Silverman (left) records with his co-host Tom Waddle, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015.

Marc Silverman of ESPN 1000’s ‘Waddle & Silvy’ says his cancer is in remission: ‘My scan’s clean and now I get a free 3 months without seeing a doctor, knock on wood’

October 6, 2020 at 4:18 p.m.

The Chicago Cubs had been eliminated from the playoffs Friday. A day earlier it was the Chicago White Sox. Yet WMVP-AM 1000 sports talk host Marc Silverman sent "Waddle &...

Chicago White Sox play-by-play man Jason Benetti in the broadcast booth on Friday, May 20, 2016.

ESPN signs White Sox TV voice Jason Benetti to a multiyear extension: ‘He’s as big a player on our staff as anybody’

October 1, 2020 at 8:16 a.m.

Jason Benetti's campaign to ensure he has no offseason is getting a big boost. ESPN has signed Benetti to a multiyear contract extension, so the TV voice of the Chicago...

This day in history, September

September 30, 2020 at 7:59 p.m.

Journalism, it's often said, is the first-draft of history. That draft sometimes is found under a big headline on the front page. Other times it's less conspicuous, perhaps on Page...

Jason Benetti before the start of a Chicago White Sox game in 2016.

Jason Benetti — with 6 screens and pizza — will do ESPN Plus Statcast streams for the postseason from his living room: ‘I’m thinking I might do thin crust’

September 29, 2020 at 3:00 a.m.

With six screens — two iPads, two monitors and two computers — and a long ethernet cord to his modem, Chicago White Sox TV announcer Jason Benetti will announce playoff...

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