Chicago Sun-Times Sports (2024)

McGee had an accomplished racing resume, first in auto racing and later in motorcycle racing. She became the first person — man or woman — to complete the grueling Baja 500 off-road race in Mexico solo, which she did in 1975.

The Bears had a shot to tie or win at the end, but clock mismanagement doomed them.

Dosunmu has been asked to be the engine for coach Billy Donovan’s offense on most nights, and he’s also more than willing to do the dirty work.

Eberflus went into their game Thursday against the Lions with a 14-31 record and many missteps on his ledger in three seasons.

If Hall can turn his out-of-the-blue hat trick Wednesday into a sustained increase in production, the Hawks — and Connor Bedard — would benefit.

Here is the master list of outdoors shows, classes, swap meets and major ice fishing events for the 2025 season around Chicago and beyond with a few earlier ones thrown in.

All the scores from this weekend’s title games at ISU.

All the scores from Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024.

The Cubs are prioritizing pitching this winter, aiming to bolster an already strong rotation.

The Bears’ offense has momentum after two weeks of progress under new coordinator Thomas Brown, but faces a Lions defense that ranks second in points allowed. The Lions’ running back duo of Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery will test the Bears’ run defense.

After dominating the Lions for years, the Bears are 1-3 against them in the Matt Eberflus era.

After going into the bye week on a roll, the Bears have lost five straight, with a series of self-incriminating issues — discipline, technique, details and fundamentals. In Week 12 of Year 3, those are all issues that should be fully ingrained strengths of a team, not excuses.

Hall scored three times, Connor Bedard snapped his long goal drought and the Hawks exploded for a 6-2 victory Wednesday.

With Patrick Williams still nursing a sore left foot, Buzelis has seen his minutes take a dramatic jump. There have been some growing pains for the rook, but some serious development also has been taking place.

The Vikings dominated early and held off a third-quarter comeback attempt from Marian Catholic

The U.S. Soccer goalkeeper announced her retirement from international competition on Monday. She intends to stay with the Red Stars for another season.

While Johnson is waiting patiently for the right situation to jump at a head-coaching job, Eberflus is fumbling an opportunity everyone in the NFL covets.

Isaak Phillips, Joey Anderson, Craig Smith, Alex Vlasic, Connor Murphy and Philipp Kurashev describe their individual methods to pass the time between on-ice action.

In April, just blocks from where they’ll play the Lions on Thursday, the Bears embarked on something few teams in the NFL had ever been lucky enough to attempt.

Illinois deer hunters harvested 54,661 deer during the first part of firearm deer season that ended Sunday. That[s up slightly from the last two years.