- Jeannie Morris, Chicago author and pioneering sports broadcaster, dead at 85
- Washington has pulled out of the Pac-12 football championship game because of COVID-19 issues in the Huskies program, and Oregon will play No. 13 USC for the conference title on Friday instead.
- The Chicago Bears' defeat of the Houston Texans on CBS-2 averaged a 22.7 household rating in the Chicago television market, a season low.
- The Cleveland Indians are changing their name — they just don’t know to what or when. Expressing that “it’s time,” owner Paul Dolan said that after months of internal discussions and meetings with groups, the American League franchise is dropping the name it has been known by since 1915.
- Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa has agreed to plead guilty to a Class 2 misdemeanor charge of reckless driving. La Russa was charged with DUI after a February arrest in Arizona.
- Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips will take over as Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner. The former Northwestern athletic director starts the new position in February.
- Gonzaga and Baylor sit atop an unchanged top tier of The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll, while West Virginia and Tennessee have cracked the top 10.
- Vanderbilt is negotiating a deal with Notre Dame defensive coordinator Clark Lea to make the former Commodores player its new head coach.
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- The growing availability of coronavirus vaccines is a “ray of hope” for hosting the Olympics next summer, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Monday as Japan struggles with a new surge in infections.
- How much of the success for Mitch Trubisky and the Chicago Bears offense can be attributed to the Houston Texans’ hapless defense is hard to say. This wasn’t exactly the Fearsome Foursome, Purple People Eaters or the Steel Curtain the Bears tore up.
- For Chicago Cubs veterans such as Jason Heyward, job security is precious with the COVID-19 pandemic affecting finances and payrolls across Major League Baseball. The departure of Kyle Schwarber is just another reminder "it's a tough time in general in the sports industry."
- Illinois is moving onto its fourth football coach since 2011 after firing Lovie Smith. Will AD Josh Whitman place a call to Jeff Monken or Bret Bielema?
- As the condensed Big Ten season nears its conclusion, Jim Harbaugh's future at Michigan, Penn State's resurgence and Northwestern's running game are in the spotlight. And is anyone really thrilled about most of these Champions Week matchups?
- Brad Biggs' 10 thoughts after the Chicago Bears crushed the Houston Texans 36-7 on Sunday at Soldier Field, ending a six-game losing streak and positioning themselves for a possible playoff push.
- The Chicago Bulls looked much more comfortable in coach Billy Donovan’s system in their second preseason game, beating the Houston Rockets 104-91. Zach LaVine scored a game-high 23 points with nine rebounds and five assists.
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- Aaron Rodgers ran for a tiebreaking score in the third quarter and threw three touchdown passes, lifting the Green Bay Packers to a 31-24 win over the Detroit Lions on Sunday to clinch the NFC North title.
- A Northwestern win over Ohio State for the Big Ten title Saturday would be one for the ages. Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald said “we have nothing to lose,” which is another way of saying no one besides their fans believes they can win.
- Following years of protests from fans and Native American groups, the Cleveland Indians have decided to change their team name, moving away from a moniker that has long been criticized as racist, three people familiar with the decision said Sunday.
- A week after Khalil Mack didn’t show up in the defensive stats against the Detroit Lions, the Chicago Bears outside linebacker made sure his imprint was visible in a 36-7 victory over the Houston Texans.
- The Chicago Bears' 36-7 demolition of the Houston Texans went precisely how Ryan Pace, Matt Nagy and their staffs envisioned. That it took until the second game in December to come to fruition is evidence of how poorly the strategy was executed, but the Bears should be allowed to enjoy the spoils of victory after ending a six-game losing streak.
- For the Chicago Bears, was Sunday's 36-7 blowout of the Houston Texans too little, too late? Or will the sudden momentum become the defibrillator paddles for the Bears' playoff hopes?
- Illinois fired football coach Lovie Smith after five seasons without a winning record. The Illini went 17-39 overall under Smith — the worst winning percentage (.304) of any Illinois football coach since the late 1970s — and 10-33 in Big Ten play.
- The Chicago Bears hosted the Houston Texans (and quarterback Deshaun Watson) in Week 14 on Dec. 13, 2020, at Soldier Field. The Bears won, 36-7.
- The long-term futures of many around Halas Hall remain in question for a team that lost six straight games in 2020. But for an afternoon at Soldier Field, against the depleted Houston Texans, all was right with the Chicago Bears.
- The Chicago Bears snapped their six-game losing streak by beating Houston 36-7 on Sunday at Soldier Field. But fans aren't buying a major turnaround — at least not according to their three-word reviews from the game.
- Tom Brady threw for two touchdowns as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers bolstered their playoff hopes with a 26-14 victory over the Minnesota Vikings. The Bucs (8-5) entered Sunday holding the sixth NFC playoff spot with the Vikings (6-7) nipping at their heels.
- The first top-10 shakeup in more than a month pushed Coastal Carolina to No. 9 in the Associated Press college football poll. Alabama was a unanimous No. 1, followed by Notre Dame, Ohio State, Clemson and Texas A&M for the sixth straight week.
- Florida forward Keyontae Johnson remained in critical but stable condition at a hospital, the team reported Sunday, one day after he collapsed on the court during a game at Florida State.
- Jimmy Collins, the longtime Illinois men’s basketball assistant who went on to coach at Illinois-Chicago for 14 seasons and led the Flames to three NCAA tournaments, has died. He was 74.
- Kevin Harlan, of CBS, TNT, Westwood One radio and the NBA 2K21 video game, talks about calling the Chicago Bears-Houston Texans game, the NBA home studio that's being installed this weekend and more.
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