Rex Tucker

THE EPISODE: When a television series has more than 500 episodes comprising over 150 stories, you are bound to have some clunkers. For years, “The Gunfighters” was considered the worst “Doctor Who” story of all time and still...

Halloween night in Chicago and hopefully it will not be a frightening game for rookie quarterback Craig Krenzel and the Bears as they take on the San Francisco 49ers. Adam Caldarelli, as usual, will be taking your e-mail questions. He'll try to find...

With pained looks and pursed lips, they slowly followed the cart down the Metrodome hallway late Sunday afternoon. The cart carried Rex Grossman, sitting on the back with a tightly knotted silk striped tie around his neck and a bulky black brace...

A look at how each player on the 2004 roster came to be a Bear. Thirty-three of the 53 players on the active roster (62.2%) were either draftees of the Bears or undrafted free agents signed with the Bears. Seventeen players joined the team via free...

Now, that's how you make an NFL roster. Veteran wide receiver Ahmad Merritt, on the proverbial bubble, returned the opening kickoff of overtime 87 yards Thursday night to set up Paul Edinger's game-winning 25-yard field goal and give the Bears a 13-10...

"The first-place, division-leading Bears . . . " It's a phrase that hasn't been uttered often in Chicago over the last decade. But after the Bears' 24-0 dismantling of the Cincinnati Bengals and the Minnesota Vikings' win over Green Bay on Sunday, it...

Bears fans waiting to see the sleeker model of the new and improved "A-Train" are still waiting. Bears running back Anthony Thomas, seeing his first action Saturday night since breaking his finger Dec. 1, responded much like a guy who hadn't carried...

A look at how each player on the 2003 roster came to be a Bear. Thirty-two of the 53 players on the active roster (60.4%) were either draftees of the Bears or undrafted free agents signed with the Bears. Only one player (R.W. McQuarters) was acquired via...

Q The Bears are not going anywhere with Jim Miller at quarterback. Even when they were 13-3 last season, it was clear teams such as the Eagles with Donovan McNabb and the Packers with Brett Favre had a distinct advantage. When will the Bears wise up and...

I wonder if the Bears feel differently now on passing up the opportunity to obtain Bledsoe? --Bill Thieben, Kewanee, Ill. That's an easy told-you-so, but it's oversimplistic. Bears fans would be shrieking if he was getting sacked behind a line that...

The Bears' injury nightmare deepened Monday night when left guard Rex Tucker was carted off the field in the third quarter with a dislocated ankle. Tucker, a Pro Bowl alternate last season, could be lost for the season. Tucker signed a six-year...

The return of wide receiver Marcus Robinson on Saturday, complete with two touchdown passes from Cade McNown on the Bears' first two possessions, was overshadowed by a defensive performance marked by some of the same problems that caused the Bears to rank...