Bears

LAKE FOREST – Bears running back Garrett Wolfe will miss the rest of the season after the Bears placed him on injured reserve Friday because of a lacerated kidney.

LAKE FOREST – The Chicago Bears placed backup running back Garrett Wolfe on injured reserve Friday, ending his season.

LAKE FOREST – As a “gunner” on the Bears special teams units, most of Corey Graham’s favorite statistics never will appear in a box score.

SAN FRANCISCO – Mike Singletary didn’t exactly hand it to his old team. That didn’t matter – Jay Cutler handed the desperate San Francisco 49ers a much-needed win.

CHICAGO – The Bears will be playing for more than a winning record or a chance to creep back into the playoff picture when they visit the San Francisco 49ers today.

LAKE FOREST – If you listen closely enough, you might be able to hear echoes of Mike Singletary’s bone-crunching hits from his 12 seasons as the Bears’ middle linebacker.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Eagles-Bears match-up on Nov. 22 will remain the Sunday night game even though NBC had the option of picking another contest.

LAKE FOREST – A rare dose of candor emerged Monday at the Bears’ practice facility after the team scrutinized its latest lopsided loss in a half-empty season.

NIU alum Wolfe reportedly has lacerated kidney

CHICAGO – Sucker punch, meet knockout blow.

With the offense struggling one week and the defense struggling the next, Chicago's 4-4 record should come as no surprise.

Tommie Harris played only four snaps in the Bears' over-before-it-began game against the Arizona Cardinals Sunday.

Chicago once home to two NFL teams

LAKE FOREST – At 6-foot-3-inches tall and 233 pounds, Bears quarterback Jay Cutler has proved this season that he can bounce back to his feet after absorbing a crushing hit.

LAKE FOREST – Bears guard Frank Omiyale envisioned a much smoother transition after he signed a four-year, $11.5 million contract with the team in February.

Each week, the Daily Chronicle will quiz a Chicago athlete about the contents of his locker. We decided to start with Bears defensive tackle Anthony Adams, whose locker is among the messiest at Halas Hall. Adams, 29, has 13 tackles in seven games on the Bears defensive line this season. The 6-foot, 300-pound Detroit native and Penn State alum played four seasons with the San Francisco 49ers before coming to Chicago, where he has started 17 games and tallied 60 tackles since 2007. Bears reporter Tom Musick caught up with Adams before a recent practice to poke through his locker.

LAKE FOREST – The Bears turned their good side toward the cameras Monday.

CHICAGO – After a pair of painful losses, the Bears were willing to take whatever they could get Sunday.

LAKE FOREST – Bears reserve offensive tackle Kevin Shaffer has a pretty good idea about what to expect Sunday from the Cleveland Browns.

CHICAGO – Contrary to popular opinion around Chicago, that cringe-inducing beating last week didn't crush the Bears. A loss to the other Ohio team just might do the trick, though.

LAKE FOREST – The word is out among NFL teams about how to stop the Bears' pass rush.

LAKE FOREST – If Tommie Harris’s elusive moves to avoid the media were any indication, he should be nimble enough to start Sunday against the Cleveland Browns.

LAKE FOREST – At times this season, the Bears' conservative approach on offense has reduced quarterback Jay Cutler’s cannon arm into something resembling a squirt gun.

Lovie hurts

CINCINNATI – The Bears finally played 60 minutes of consistent football Sunday. Unfortunately for Bears fans, it was consistently terrible.

CHICAGO – It's been a decade since liver disease did something defenders struggled to do and took down Walter Payton. Even so, No. 34 still looms large.

LAKE FOREST – Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco has a few messages for the Bears.

CINCINNATI – Every time Cedric Benson takes a handoff, he'll be carrying a grudge along with the ball.

LAKE FOREST – Soft talkers tend to excel in careers as librarians or light-rock disc jockeys.

LAKE FOREST – Go ahead and take your shots at the Bears offensive line.