James Brown

BOURBONNAIS -- Coach Lovie Smith cracked that it is safe to say Jay Cutler will be the Bears' starting quarterback. But the safety of Cutler is no joke and that is the focus of what is believed to be the only legitimate training camp battle for a...

BOURBONNAIS -- The spotlight has been on Shea McClellin because he is the Chicago Bears’ first-round draft pick and needs to infuse energy into the team's pass rush. Criticized for struggling in his initial practices at Olivet Nazarene, McClellin...

BOURBONNAIS — The Bears raised eyebrows last year when they decided a 26-year-old former first-round draft pick wasn't part of their future and traded tight end Greg Olsen. It was a chance to get something in return for Olsen before he departed...

Mike Tice has gone to a lot of measures to make points to offensive linemen over the years. In 2005, he pulled a fan off the sideline at Vikings training camp and had him fill in at guard during a non-contact drill without helmets. He was sending a...

One of the reasons Chicago Bears cornerback Tim Jennings was benched for a game last season was that he missed opportunities for takeaways. Jennings said the video ultimately will tell whether he picked off Jay Cutler in a diving play along the...

If Bears general manager Phil Emery had put a spin on Mick Jagger during the course of the NFL draft, he might have sung, "You can't always get what you need. But if you try sometime, you just might find, you get what you want." From the third round on,...