The teenage guest columnists share the hopes, frustrations and fears that connect us all. Over the next four months, these are the Chicago’s Next Voices writers whose work we’ll be publishing: Kennedy ...

The Buffalo Bills and safety Damar Hamlin have agreed on a one-year contract, keeping the unrestricted free agent off the ...

Walter Payton is one of the three greatest athletes in Chicago sports history, hard stop. The man we called Sweetness amassed 16,726 rushing yards, placing him second all-time in NFL history ...

The first Hoover novel to hit the big screen was It Ends With Us, with the Sony movie premiering in August and surpassing ...

Former NFL Pro Bowler Marcellus Wiley is facing new allegations that he raped two women while attending Columbia University in the 1990s. The two accusers filed lawsuits last week claiming Wiley ...

The NFL's addition of 35 compensatory picks to the 2025 draft has finalized the full order and the Bucs now know exactly where their six picks land. With the return of Chris Godwin, the Buccaneers ...

The Buffalo Bills stand to open the season minus two new free-agent defensive line additions upon learning Larry Ogunjobi and ...

Replacing Pepper is Jon Weeks, a 39-year-old long snapper who played the past 15 seasons for the Houston Texans, including a 2015 Pro Bowl berth and their 2023 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year honor.

The 34-year-old has no history of testing positive and, last season, was the Pittsburgh Steelers nominee for Walter Payton Man of the Year award. Beane credited Ogunjobi for being upfront even ...

He was in line to move into a starting role before sustaining an ACL tear in practice in late September, and the Stanford product went on to serve as their Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year nominee.

He was a team captain and twice was the organization’s nominee for Walter Payton Man of the Year. Aside from tearing his ACL two years ago, he missed three games in the other nine seasons.