Kevin Dogins

The Bears' foundation—running the ball—cracked severely in their 25-7 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, one of the NFL's poorest run-stopping teams. The Bears' top rusher was backup quarterback Henry Burris, who scrambled for 19 yards in two series of...

Chances are the Bears will be singing the blues again in St. Louis Monday night after another marquee game. At 2-7, the Bears are headed nowhere any self-respecting NFL team aspires to be in January — out of the playoffs and ignored. On the other hand,...

Here we go again. Another Monday night experience for the Bears. Players always say Monday Night Football is a chance to prove something to your peers, a chance for the entire country to watch you play. This Bears team is out to prove they're not one...

Chris Chandler stayed in the trainer's room so long that Monday became Tuesday and you began to wonder whether he would emerge upright. Even he couldn't really identify all the pain his body had to be in after absorbing seven sacks—five in the first...

Chris Chandler, like most veteran quarterbacks, has learned to negotiate that ambiguous line between playing with reckless abandon and resorting to caution and guile. A half-dozen concussions, assorted broken bones and some sprained ankles are his badges...

Henry Burris is lucky. Sure, he might not have been thinking that as he picked himself off the Ericsson Stadium turf time and again Sunday, only to see the ball he just threw lying there alone and harmless, far from any other human life form. But in a...

The doctor asked him how many fingers he was holding up, and Chris Chandler answered: "That's not important right now. What's important is that it's not easy being Joan of Arc, especially when you're being followed as closely as I am by government...