Dick Butkus

Allan Graf's latest sport? Stunts in movies

2013-04-21 10:00:00

It may seem surprising that Allan Graf — the baseball coordinator, stunt coordinator and second-unit director for Warner Bros.' Jackie Robinson biographical drama "42" — first made his name on the gridiron. But that's precisely why Graf was...

Phil Anschutz a game-changer in Los Angeles' bid for NFL

2013-03-15 18:40:00

How sweet it is. Let the church bells ring. A suggestion for NFL fans in Los Angeles. Tonight over dinner, clink your cocktail glasses in toast to Phil Anschutz. We have just witnessed the most significant good-news story about the NFL and Los Angeles...

Stanford-Wisconsin not exactly a matchup made in Rose Bowl heaven

2012-12-31 18:20:00

The Rose Bowl pregame weather has been about as crummy as the seven combined losses for Stanford and Wisconsin. It's never good to make Dick Butkus, who made the game-clinching interception for Illinois in the 1964 game, slog through drenching rain...

Bubba Smith dies at 66; NFL player turned Miller Lite pitchman

2011-08-04 00:00:00

Bubba Smith, a former All-Pro football player turned actor and commercial pitchman who delighted TV viewers by wrenching off the tops of "easy-opening cans" of beer, was found dead Wednesday at his Los Angeles home. He was 66. -------------------- FOR...

UCLA 29, Arizona State 28 (final)

2011-11-05 16:33:37

Pro football in L.A.: Paging James Cameron

2011-01-27 16:34:49

Obama unmasked as fraudulent Chicago Bears fan on eve of Super Bowl

2011-02-04 16:38:22

Super Bowl wings turn turkey

2009-01-28 00:00:00

Ever wonder if you went kind of crazy and nobody noticed? Back to that nutty notion in a second, for I've got wings to prepare -- turkey wings for the Big Game. "Why turkey wings?" you ask. "Aren't they tougher than Bronko Nagurski's helmet?" Well,...

Chargers Charge Gaps All the Way to the Top

1999-10-18 00:00:00

The San Diego football team has seized first place in the AFC West this year with carefully coached, uniquely aggressive defensive men who attack not the players in the offensive line but the gaps between those players. Up and down the line, as the...

Next stop for Urlacher is Canton

2013-05-22 09:32:00

Like he did to so many NFL running backs in 13 years, Brian Urlacher hit Chicago hard Wednesday morning. To many fans who have bought his jerseys and loved his game, it hurt like a helmet to the gut. Urlacher announced his retirement via Twitter,...

Urlacher deserving of 54-gun salute

2013-05-22 09:00:00

When Brian Urlacher held up that navy blue jersey for the first time on that April day in 2000, his face a little pimply and his scalp covered with closely cropped blond hair, no one had any idea what 54 would come to represent. After 13 seasons, it's...

Manziel is working hard to be best he can be, which might be best ever

2013-05-20 18:50:03

SAN DIEGO The last thing George Whitfield Jr. expected was for Johnny Manziel to throw the ball. The Texas A&M star, after all, was blindfolded. Whitfield, a "quarterback whisperer" or, as he calls himself, a "quarterback engineer," had never attempted...

Dick Butkus is arguably one of the best linebackers ever to play, possessing strength, agility and quickness to cover running backs and tight ends on the same play. He played for the Bears from 1965 to 1973, making seven Pro Bowl teams, collecting 22 interceptions and recovering 27 fumbles.

2013-05-22 00:00:00

Dick Butkus.

2012-12-15 13:51:00

Dick Butkus in the late 1960's.

2012-12-14 17:35:11