Jimmy Williams

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...

Walking slowly off the field Sunday at 3Com Park after the Bears' humbling 49-7 loss to the 49ers, Brian Urlacher seldom looked up and never removed his helmet. His team didn't show up during the game, and Urlacher felt ashamed to show his face after it....

Saturday, March 15 results BOYS GYMNASTICS Libertyville 127.3, Hersey 118, Naperville Central 107.7. All-around: Jay Harig, Hersey, 50.9. BOYS TRACK AND FIELD Oak Park 101, Moline 68, Young 36, Holy Cross 7 Plainfield South 76, Minooka 44, Reavis 16,...

Saturday, April 19 results BASEBALL Antioch 3-9, Palatine 2-8 Barrington 11-11, Naperville Central 1-13 (1st gm. 6 inn.) Bloom 13, T.F. North 3 (6 inn.) Bradley 10-14, Pontiac 0-7 (1 gm 5 inn) Carmel 21-21, Marian Catholic 11-6 (2nd gm. 5 inn.) Conant 11,...

Throw on your grubby clothes, folks: The warm season is just offstage and out in the kitchen garden, the cool weather crops are setting seed and the compost pile is raring to go. Once again, it's the season for planting tomatoes, beans, papalo, sunflowers...

Saturday, May 18 results BASEBALL Antioch 3, Wauconda 1 Brother Rice 12, St. Laurence 8 Carmel 8-11, Jacobs 4-1 (2nd gm. 5 inn.) De La Salle 3, Thornridge 2 Downers Grove North 3, Leyden 2 Elgin 4, Streamwood 3 Elmwood Park 11-3, Proviso East 8-13 Geneva...

It was referred to in the travel brochures as the "Paris of the Americas" -- an idyllic island of sun, sea and sand, where the plazas were filled with laughter and the spirit of the Cuban people lent an enticing, keep-the-party-going kind of happiness...

Suddenly, the Bears are in need of a designated driver to get them to the playoffs. They relinquished the driver's seat in the NFC Central title race Sunday by losing 13-10 to Tampa Bay, which left them with a 7-6 record and Green Bay and Detroit...