Cubs
The Cubs used a major league-record 69 players this season. Cardinals long-time broadcaster Mike Shannon was honored in a ceremony before the game. Shannon, 82, called his last game on Sunday after 50 years behind the microphone.
Bears
Fields brushed off a nightmarish first start, and Chicago bounced back to beat the winless Detroit Lions 24-14 on Sunday.
College Sports
Nebraska steamrolls Northwestern, Michigan goes into Camp Randall and dominates Wisconsin, and Notre Dame loses to Cincinnati. The B1G stories of the week.
Preps
All of your Illinois High School Football scores for Week 6.
Bears
Dalton is suffering from a bone bruise to his left knee while Fields wore a brace on his injured right hand all week in practice.
Sports News
The company said Thursday that This is Heaven LLC, a company of the 53-year-old Thomas and Chicago real estate developer Rick Heidner, bought the interests in Go the Distance Baseball owned by the Denise M. Stillman Trust.
Bears
If the Bears do move, they would be able to develop more than 300 acres around the stadium with dining, shopping, and entertainment — something other teams such as the Los Angeles Rams, Los Angeles Chargers, and Las Vegas Raiders have done to add revenue.
Preps
Here are the latest rankings of Illinois high school football teams in each class, according to an Associated Press panel of sportswriters.
Golf
Europe has dominated the Ryder Cup, winning nine of the last 12, until getting routed along the shores of Lake Michigan.
Bears
The former Ohio State star completed just 6 of 20 passes for 68 yards and got X-rays on his throwing hand afterward. The Bears' biggest offensive play came on a pass interference that wiped out an interception and gained 48 yards.
Preps
The Simeon-Phillips game is one of the biggest of the season for the teams.
Chicagoland News
Saturday will be the final day of racing for the venerable track that staged the first horse race with a million-dollar purse 40 years ago and brought legitimacy to international thoroughbreds being shipped over to run in North America.