Steve Hutchinson

INDIANAPOLIS — Choosing a guard in the NFL draft's first round usually isn't any team's top priority. And it's probably not for the Bears this year. Guards, after all, tend to be looked at as the least valuable members of starting lineups. Some...

How long until Brian Urlacher's a hall of famer? -- @t walinski, from Twitter Tough to say, except it shouldn’t take anywhere near as long as it took Richard Dent.  At this point, it’s difficult to determine who will be on the ballot in...

MINNEAPOLIS It's a Monday in May and Jared Allen is reciting from the Book of Herm. "You always have to ask, 'Do you love football or do you love what football gives you?'" The adage is borrowed from Herm Edwards, Allen's head coach during his final two...

NFL Team Report - Tennessee Titans - INSIDE SLANT Titans defensive end Derrick Morgan appears to be thankful that the team has not yet added a pass rushing specialist, despite flirtations with former Atlanta Falcons defensive end John Abraham. Instead,...

The conversation about if Brian Urlacher would reach the Pro Football Hall of Fame likely shifted to when after the 2010 season. Now it's worth wondering if there is a spot for Urlacher in Canton, Ohio, as a first-ballot inductee come 2018, when he...

Charles Woodson was happy to hear that high school cornerback Jabrill Peppers wants to be better than he was. "I love it, man, I love it," he told WTKA (1050) during the station's annual Mott Hospital radiothon. Whether Peppers -- a 6-foot-1, 205-...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Tennessee Titans - INSIDE SLANT It's no secret that the Titans have to be better in 2013 in order to get coach Mike Munchak and his staff off the proverbial hot seat. A 6-10 finish a year ago led to the dismissal of...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Tennessee Titans - INSIDE SLANT The writing was on the wall for Lavelle Hawkins with the Tennessee Titans. And on Wednesday, the Titans let go of the five-year veteran wide receiver, ridding themselves of his $1.9...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Tennessee Titans - INSIDE SLANT Many of the mock drafts that came along naturally matched up Alabama guard Chance Warmack with the Tennessee Titans, who had the 10th pick in the draft. The Titans' offensive line was...

This month has been one big hazmat spill. An Elvis impersonator from Mississippi was arrested and later released after letters containing the deadly poison ricin were mailed to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a judge. On the other side of the...

|TV SPORTS|  College Men’s Basketball -- Big East Conference tournament, games at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. (ESPN); 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. (ESPN2)  Soccer -- UEFA Champions League, Porto at Malaga, 2:30 p.m. (FSN); UEFA Champions League, Arsenal at Bayern...

|TV SPORTS| NFL Football--Denver Broncos at Oakland Raiders, 7 p.m. (NFL Network) NBA Basketball--New York Knicks at Miami Heat, 7 p.m. (TNT); Dallas Mavericks at Phoenix Suns, 9:30 p.m. (TNT) Men’s College Basketball--Long Beach State at...