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    Bears Notes

    Saturday, December 8th, 2007

    Six penalties on one offensive drive including two false starts and a delay of game after they were inside the Washington 10 yard line?  Frankly I’m amazed they held the ball long enough to amass that many penalties, but you aren’t going to win games that way.
    When is the last time the Bears defense made […]

    Mike’s NFL Picks 2007 Week 11

    Saturday, November 17th, 2007

    Bye weeks are over, so now I can incorrectly pick 16 games.
    San Diego Chargers +3 at Jacksonville Jaguars - I’m not sure what to make of either of these teams.  I want to pick the Chargers, but that’s because I still think they are as good as last year’s team, which they obviously are not.  […]

    Olympics in Chicago?

    Sunday, April 15th, 2007

    So Chicago won the competition to be the US city biddingto get the 2016 Summer Olympics.  I’d like to go on record as saying I hope we don’t get it.  
    First of all, I can’t stand the Olympics.  It might not be so bad if they would actually televise the events that were interesting, or if […]

    Play Ball

    Monday, February 26th, 2007

    ur·sine
    Pronunciation: ‘&r-”sIn
    Function: adjective
    Etymology: Latin ursinus, from ursus bear
    1 : of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae)
    2 : suggesting or characteristic of a bear
    Since this is the first entry for this blog it would probably make sense to do a little “about this site” post. I’ve been putting it off […]