NFL preseason previews

The Associated Press | Ah, the pleasantries of training camps. The oppressive heat. The two-a-day practices. The stuffy dorm rooms.

With the exception of the rookies and the obscure free agents looking to catch on, do any NFL players enjoy the grind they are about to endure? Unless they are masochists, probably not.

That’s one of the [...]

Bears' 2009 regular season schedule

All times Central. Sunday games subject to change.

For Coughlin, Giants, 'It's a Whole New Season'

By Bob Glauber/The Washington Post

ALBANY, N.Y. — Tom Coughlin isn’t quite sure when the memorable sayings — the ones from Confucius to Lincoln to Lombardi — became a part of his coaching lexicon. The seeds probably were planted when he was growing up playing football and turned into a star wingback at Syracuse University. Once [...]

Monsters of the Midway return, deck out dorms

By Rob Laird/The Daily Journal

They brought flat-screen televisions, various video game consoles and – for the offensive linemen – seven rented leather recliners.

But at this year’s training camp for the Chicago Bears, the seventh at Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, there will be no time for lounging around. The team has a lot of work [...]

Notes from move-in day

By Rob Laird/The Daily Journal

A full synopsis of move-in day will run in Wednesday’s paper and will be posted later.

For now, here are some notes from Arrival Day 2008.

Photos from move-in day

Mike Brown carries a plasma TV and bedding into one of the dormitories at Olivet Nazarene University on Tuesday afternoon. — The Daily Journal/Mike Voss

Olivet gears up for camp

Tyler Harvey, a fifth-year senior at Olivet Nazarene University and managing concessions for the Chicago Bears training camp, fills soda machines in Snowbarger Park at the college last Thursday. — The Daily Journal/Nicholas Hostein

Caleb Benoit/Sports Editor

Chicago Bears Training Camp doesn’t officially start until Wednesday, but The Daily Journal’s coverage of the Monsters of [...]

As camps open, all eyes are on Favre

The Associated Press

The Associated Press

NFL teams begin reporting to training camps this week, but it might take until next weekend for the league’s leading summertime story line to begin to come to a conclusion. That’s when the Green Bay Packers are scheduled to report to their camp in De Pere, Wis., and find out [...]