Jermichael Finley

He was a rising football star in a Texas town where Friday nights were everything. Derrick Anderson had the instincts, the speed of a district champion hurdler, and as a cousin of Green Bay Packers tight end Jermichael Finley, the pedigree. As a...

Last year, he was an undrafted rookie hoping to hang on. This year, Brandon Bostick has a different set of expectations. Out with No. 48, in with No. 86. "It looks better than No. 48," said Bostick, laughing. "Forty-eight is like a fullback or...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Green Bay Packers - INSIDE SLANT As long as Datone Jones is a quick study - and his new employers have every reason to believe he will be - the Packers defense just might be in a better position to quickly make...

GREEN BAY, Wis. _ With each passing year, National Football League teams are drafting for need because the pressure to win right now has never been more intense. That's what general manager Ted Thompson and the Green Bay Packers will be doing, at...

Most entertaining division in football? The NFC North can stake its claim to that title. It is, after all, home to the past two MVPs (Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Vikings running back Adrian Peterson) as well as the NFL's single-season record...

As the Bears have combed through the free agent left tackles, they undoubtedly have noticed the group has thinned out like the hair on Brian Urlacher's head. The Broncos put the franchise tag on Ryan Clady. The Chiefs did the same to Brandon Albert. And...

Speaking of streaks that interest Chicago, how many NFL quarterbacks in a row will sign a new contract and make Bears fans wonder how it affects Jay Cutler? The number could reach 31 and my answer regarding Cutler would remain the same: Not. One. Bit....

It didn't take Aaron Rodgers long to notice Tim Jennings wasn't playing. The Packers quarterback went at Jennings' replacement at left cornerback, Kelvin Hayden, and Hayden's replacement at nickel back, D.J. Moore, repeatedly. Neither made a play in...

You never heard anybody at Halas Hall call Packers general manager Ted Thompson an idiot. Nor will you, no matter how voluble or volatile the Bears-Packers rivalry became this week. That would be disparaging the man whose plan the Bears want to copy....

Is Henry Melton viewed as a system player, only effective as a three technique? Would this keep his price down in free agency? -- Chris Jensen, from Facebook Melton would be coveted by any team that runs a four-man front. He wouldn't have the same kind...

TODAY HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING Mitchell at Brandon Valley Philip Tournament Pierre at Huron HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' HOCKEY Aberdeen Cougars at Watertown, 8 p.m. JUNIOR HOCKEY Aberdeen Wings vs. Bismarck, Odde Ice Center, 7:15 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL...

||TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Men’s College Basketball--Georgetown at St. John’s, 10 a.m. (ESPN2); Duke at North Carolina State, 11 a.m. (ESPN); Marquette at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m. (ESPNU); Minnesota at Indiana, 11 a.m. (Big 10 Network);...