Israel Idonije

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT If 2011 first-round pick Gabe Carimi is trying to punch his ticket out of Chicago after two disappointing seasons, he's on the right path. Carimi is absent from OTAs that started this...

The week before The Squared Circle opened in mid-March, owner and pro wrestler Lisa Marie Varon — better known as Victoria during her WWE days and Tara currently with TNA wrestling — sat in a corner booth of her Lincoln Park restaurant,...

NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT In his one season of major-college football, Bears first-round pick Kyle Long started his only five games at left guard. But he lined up exclusively at right guard during the weekend's rookie minicamp...

As the Bears have navigated their way through the offseason workout program, the voluntary minicamp and the rookie camp, they have started to become a team. A new team. When they convene at Halas Hall on Monday for the first of 10 scheduled OTA...

NFL Team Report - Tennessee Titans - INSIDE SLANT The writing was on the wall for Lavelle Hawkins with the Tennessee Titans. And on Wednesday, the Titans let go of the five-year veteran wide receiver, ridding themselves of his $1.9 million base salary....

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT The last time the Bears drafted a linebacker who was a converted safety -- as they did with this year's fourth-round pick Khaseem Greene -- it turned out pretty well. In 2000 the Bears...

The Chicago Bears were seeking a downfield threat in the NFL draft and got a low-risk investment with big upside in Marquess Wilson. It is not common for seventh-round draft picks to pan out as big-time players but before a puzzling 2012 season at...

Transcript of Bears general manager Phil Emery's media session Saturday. On how much work it took to get all the information when considering drafting WR Marquess Wilson:     “A tremendous amount of work. Area scout did a great job -- Francis...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT Most analysts will look at the Bears' first-round pick as a reach for a player who is a project, but that's not the way they see it. Few anticipated the Bears would choose the eighth...

Phil Emery said Saturday the Chicago Bears still have interest in veteran free agents, including defensive lineman Israel Idonije, but things could be picking up for the veteran elsewhere. Idonije visited the Tennessee Titans on Monday, an NFL source...

The Boy Wonder folded his hands before him on the table and waited for the next question. It was one of those archetypal comic book convention moments, the kind you can picture even if you've never come within 100 miles of a comic book convention. Burt...

Phil Emery entered the draft with only five picks and exited with six players after a trade down, probably not enough to accomplish all of his goals. But the Bears are not done tweaking a roster that reached 90 players Sunday when the team announced the...