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Mike Ditka

Optimistic And Upbeat, Mike Ditka Still Mulls Mortality Post-Stroke

Posted 11.20.2012 | Chicago

Just days after a stroke he suffered last Friday, Hall of Famer and former Bears coach Mike Ditka is picking himself up and getting back in the game. ...

REPORTS: NFL Legend Suffers Stroke

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2012 | Sports

Legendary Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka has suffered a minor stroke, according to various reports. Ditka was hospitalized after experiencing diff...

WATCH: Top 10 Press Conference Rants

Posted 10.31.2012 | Sports

By Matt Yoder, Awful Announcing It is the ten year anniversary of Herm Edwards' career highlight, his famous "you play to win the game" rant. As H...

Finalists Announced, Voting Opens, For Coveted Goulet Award

Dr. Abraham Froman | Posted 12.11.2011 | Chicago
Dr. Abraham Froman

After more than 500 nominations, the American Mustache Institute (AMI) today announced 21 finalists and opened voting for the 2011 Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year award.

Mike Ditka Would Spit On Payton Book Author (VIDEO)

NBC Chicago | Posted 11.30.2011 | Chicago

Former Bears Coach Mike Ditka left no doubt about how he'd treat the writer of a new tell-all book about the secret life of Walter Payton. "I'd spi...

Mike Ditka's Son Charged With DUI, Claims Cops Targeted Him For His Name

Posted 06.28.2011 | Chicago

The son of legendary Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka was arrested recently for driving under the influence outside his apartment complex in suburban De...

Ex-NFL Coach Rips Proposed 18-Game Schedule

Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports

Several NFL players have lashed out at the owners for proposing an 18-game schedule during the collective bargaining agreement negotiations. It turns ...

"Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick": The Coach and the President Heed an African Proverb

Kelly Kleiman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Kelly Kleiman

The volume of reproach and disappointment and disapproval and correction directed at Coach Lovie Smith and the President says nothing about their leadership ability.

Shannon Sharpe: The Best Blocking Tight End Ever?

Muhammad Ali Hasan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Muhammad Ali Hasan

For the last two years, fans of Shannon Sharpe, like myself, have suffered the fate of seeing our favorite football player denied entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Mike Ditka Cuts Campaign Ad For Quinn (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

Gov. Pat Quinn is getting a boost from an unlikely source: former Bears coach Mike Ditka. The NFL coaching legend-- and Chicago marketing luminary-...

For You To Succeed, Must Someone Else Fail?

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Michael Sigman

"You have to know when to kick ass and when to kiss ass." That Tweetable maxim was Leonard Stern's principal advice to me during the six years I wor...

What the Latest Boston Tea Party Means for the Land of Lincoln

Shawn Healy | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Shawn Healy

How much does Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts last evening foreshadow the short-term future of Illinois politics, where Barack Obama's former Senate seat is at stake?

GOP Senate Candidate Caught Overplaying Mike Ditka's Endorsement

Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

In a single day, a longshot Republican Senate candidate got caught trumpeting an endorsement he didn't have, then landing the endorsement after all. ...

Ditka Endorses Hughes Over Kirk In Senate Race

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

Da Coach isn't backing the favorite. Former Bears coach Mike Ditka, a longtime conservative who stumped with Sara Palin during the 2008 presidential ...

Mike Ditka To Own Piece Of Lingerie Football League

Daily Herald | Ashok Selvam | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

Most fans might not make a connection between NFL Hall of Famer Mike Ditka and lingerie, but that's what the Chicago Bliss wants in anticipation of th...

I Challenge Brad Pitt to a Mustache Duel

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Jon Chattman

I'll be damned if I'm going to let a Mustache-Come-Lately steal the thunder of such immortal mustachioed gods like Tom Skerritt, The Iron Sheik, and Mike Ditka

First Foie Gras Ban, Then Trans Fats, Now All Meat?

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Meathead

Can you imagine the city built by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters going meatless for a month? Can you see Da Coach wandering from table to table at Ditka's selling grilled tofu during the playoffs?

Ditka Stumps For Palin

AP | JOE MANDAK | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

LATROBE, Pa. — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, on a bus tour of small towns in Pennsylvania as polls show the Democratic tic...

CHICAGO'S PENNANT FEVER IS HEATING UP!

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Stefanie Michaels

So, I hear "it's been 102 years since both the Chicago Cubs and White Sox have made it to the playoffs"- and Chicago is going nuts with the best case ...