Our Bears All-Quarter Century Team continues with cornerback, a group that has featured plenty of ballhawks over the years.

Up next in our Bears All-Quarter Century team is defensive tackle, a position that has been a catalyst for some of the best defenses in team history.

Kicking off defense on our Bears All-Quarter Century Team is edge rusher, a group led by a recent Hall of Famer.

A: You know, it’s interesting that you ask that question. I remember, and I wanted to kind of go back and jot down some notes, but to me, it just kind of makes me think of when Tony Dungy and Lovie ...

"It makes me think of when Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith played in Super Bowl XLI in 2007. That was the first Super Bowl featuring a Black head coach at all, let alone two.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Drew Allar’s first two interceptions didn’t count. Penalties wiped them out. His last one will sting Penn State fans for a long time and be remembered by Notre Dame ...

At the NFL level, Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith became the first Black coaches to make it to the Super Bowl in 2007, with Dungy’s Indianapolis Colts beating Smith’s Chicago Bears.

In Chicago, a locale that has been something of a coaching afterthought since the team hired Lovie Smith from the St. Louis Rams (and Smith, eventually, brought the team to a Super Bowl), coming ...

The Orange Bowl had posed another milestone: two Black coaches that had made it that far. Freeman’s opponent, James Franklin of Penn State, spoke pointedly about the opportunity.

Black college football coaches share what it means to see a Black coach contend for the national title for the first time.

That Orange Bowl, which Notre Dame won 27-24 over Penn State, pitted Freeman against Nittany Lions coach James Franklin, who is Black.

Earlier this week, Franklin shared his desire that the showdown with Freeman would have a similar impact on young coaches as when he saw Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith go head-to-head in Super Bowl ...