The Chicago Bears’ longest practice of the summer also was the most challenging on a steamy afternoon at the Tennessee Titans facility.

Pedro Ramírez’s calm demeanor and preparedness is paying off with his sudden increase in playing time as the Chicago Cubs’ everyday second baseman.

When Elmhurst native Rob Harley took over at Northern Illinois after Thomas Hammock’s departure to the NFL, he instituted the team motto “Us vs. Them.”

The Chicago Cubs return Friday to the cool, calm and eclectic atmosphere of Wrigley Field, a respite from the 115-degree heat outside the Phoenix ballpark and the slow burn inside.

As Hawthorne went bankrupt and closed, more than 500 residents and horses who lived on the backstretch have to find a new place to live.

A spokesperson for the Stars said the team is hoping to play at Ryan Field “eventually” but will not re-submit a bid until it opens.

Major League Baseball on Thursday proposed limiting free-agent signings to several weeks in December and then from early February on, a plan aimed at creating more of an offseason transaction flurry.

Marist graduate Emily Bojan, who played four years of college softball at Wisconsin, gears up to play basketball at DePaul.

Waukegan hasn’t won more than one game in a season since 2016, but Kevion Moton is laying the groundwork for that to change.

Good Good Golf lost its partnership with Callaway on Thursday and no longer will be title sponsor of a PGA Tour event as the fallout continued over a video for a new Callaway driver that showed a man shoving a woman to the ground.