NFL offseason winners: from Aaron Rodgers to the Chicago Bears
All 32 teams have been busy over the last few months. But which ones have significantly boosted their chances of success in 2024?
April 2024
Sportblog
NFL draft 2024 winners and losers: Chicago shine as Denver disappoint
NFL draft 2024: Bears tap Caleb Williams with No 1 pick as six QBs go in top 12
Chicago Bears to seek public funding in $5bn plan for new lakefront stadium
NFL draft: high demand and supply set to create a glut of first-round QBs
‘Wait for my dress’: Caleb Williams is the Zoomer QB to shake up the hidebound Bears
From the Bears to the Jets: teams that need to nail this year’s NFL draft
March 2024
Chicago Bears trade Justin Fields to Pittsburgh Steelers
The Bears are trading quarterback Justin Fields to the Steelers for a 2025 sixth-round pick that could be upgraded to a fourth-rounder
February 2024
NFL offseason questions: a trade for No 1 and Russell Wilson’s future
As the draft approaches and thoughts turn toward free agency, a number of teams are looking to make moves that could alter their trajectory
January 2024
When the game was war: revisiting the NBA’s ‘greatest ever season’
A new book argues that basketball was at its peak when the Lakers, Pistons, Bulls and Celtics fought it out during the 1987-88 season
November 2023
Bears intercept Joshua Dobbs four times in last-gasp win over Vikings
Chicago Bears beat woeful Carolina Panthers to increase shot at No 1 overall pick
October 2023
49ers trade for Commanders’ former No 2 overall pick Chase Young
The San Francisco 49ers have traded for Washington Commanders edge rusher Chase Young as they look to bolster their Super Bowl campaign
NFL long-shot index: which two-win team will make the playoffs?
In four of the last five years, a 2-4 or 2-5 team has gone on to make the playoffs. Can anyone repeat the trend this season?
Dick Butkus obituary
Chicago Bears snap 14-game skid as DJ Moore’s career night dooms Washington
Dick Butkus, marauding Hall of Fame Chicago Bears linebacker, dies aged 80
September 2023
Justin Fields is a disaster. But so is everything else at the Chicago Bears
The quarterback has struggled this season but his team have an awful defense, off-field troubles and the general air of dysfunction
March 2023
Chicago Bears trade No 1 overall pick in NFL draft to Carolina Panthers
The Panthers have traded up to acquire the No 1 pick in the draft from the Bears in exchange for a package of four draft picks and star wideout DJ Moore
November 2022
Justin Fields is the rarest of things: a Bears quarterback worth watching
The second-year QB has thrilled fans this season, even if he is far from the finished product. Chicago must do everything to keep him healthy