Archive for March, 2011
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Chicago Bears Insider: Predicting the Bears’ 2011 Draft
If you’ve been keeping up with the Bears through some of the most popular media outlets, you may have some idea of what they are planning to do in the 2011 NFL Draft or at least have an idea of some of the players that the Bears may be interest
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“Bigger Than the Game”: The Self-Aggrandizement of the Modern Athlete
Bigger Than the Game: Bo, Boz, the Punky QB, and How the 80's Created the Modern Athlete by Michael WeinrebGotham Books 2010. ISBN: 978-1-592-40559-6 Bigger than the Game is an outstanding treatise on the self-aggrandizement of the modern athl
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Chicago Bears: Top 20 First-Round Picks in Team History
The Bears have taken a beating on the results of their first-round draft selections, especially over recent years, and with good reason. Flops like Cade McNown, Curtis Enis and Stan Thomas litter the Bears' draft landscape. Yet even blind squirr
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Chicago Bears Insider: Looking Back at the Coaching Staff
No season-end review would be complete without a quick look back at how the most important parts of the Chicago Bears coaching staff weren’t looked at in detail after the season. The Bears made some pretty significant changes on their coa
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Chicago Bears All-Time Starting Lineup
Who would be the one player picked out of the Chicago Bears' stellar history of middle linebackers? Sayers, Grange or Payton? Did Cutler beat out Luckman?This article is about choosing one player for each position on a football team so that player ca
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Chicago Bears Insider: Looking at Free Agency, If…..
There hasn’t been a lot of news coming out of Lake Forrest lately. It’s probably due to the fact that the NFL still doesn’t have a collective bargaining agreement put into place, and this keeps a tight noose on what teams are able t
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NFL Mock Draft 2011: Chicago Bears 6 Round Predictions
As sports fans, we could always count on at least three certainties in life: death, taxes and the NFL season. Well, thanks to the lockout and ensuing legal battles, that last part is about as certain as the Chicago Cubs winning the World Se
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Wide Receiver, Defensive Tackle Should Top Bears’ List of Offseason Needs
Assuming a labor agreement is eventually put in place, free agency promises to be another interesting few weeks for Chicago Bears fans. Last season, Jerry Angelo struck in the early hours, securing Julius Peppers, Chester Taylor and Brandon Manumaleu
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Chicago Bears’ Season-End Review, Part X: The Specialists
The Bears have prided themselves in having good special teams play and it’s been an emphasis on the team ever since head coach Lovie Smith came to the Bears. Under the direction of special teams coordinator Dave Toub, this unit has had so
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2011 NFL Offseason Report: The Chicago Bears
This idea originated from ESPN's Mike & Mike: 5. What is QB Jay Cutler's standing with the team? The media looks at him as though he is a whiny guy. Whether that's true or not—and I've never been a Jay Cutler fan—his teammates
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