The Chicago Bears’ Joe Thuney was the inaugural winner of the NFL Protector of the Year award, while the Bears won Moment of the Year for their dramatic OT touchdown against the Packers.

Andy Dick is reflecting on the near-fatal drug overdose that landed him in rehab for nearly two months. Dick, 60, made sure to credit his documentarians-turned-friends, Adam Carbone and Alexander ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 24, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. (Sports) front page flashback: Jan. 24, ...

Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson has been named a finalist for AP's Coach of the Year following his significant impact in his first season. Johnson led the Bears from worst to first, from 5-12 to ...

Chet Brooks, a standout defensive back for the San Francisco 49ers who recorded an interception in Super Bowl XXIV, died following a cancer battle. He was 60. Although his NFL career was limited to ...

Thomas Dewitt Causey, Jr., a veteran production sound mixer who worked on films like “Dick Tracy” and “Broadcast News,” died on Sunday in Cathedral City, Calif., after a battle with a long illness. He ...

Thomas Causey, a veteran sound mixer who earned Oscar nominations for Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy and worked on four Star Trek films, TV’s Dallas and dozens of other movies and series, died Sunday in ...

The Oscar and Emmy nominee also did lots of John Carpenter and Adam Sandler movies. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Thomas Causey, the veteran sound mixer who received an Oscar nomination for Warren ...