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Report: Some think Jim Harbaugh would leave Michigan for this NFL team…
The Jim Harbaugh buzz has been relatively quiet for the past few weeks and while the Chicago Bears coaching search is still ongoing, it doesn’t look like we can rule out the Michigan man just yet. However, the Bears do have another NFL team to battle for his services if he does bolt for the NFL.
On Wednesday, a new report from Bruce Feldman of The Athletic stated that sources inside the Michigan program believe Harbaugh would go back to the NFL if this team offered him a job. The team? The Las Vegas Raiders.
Multiple sources inside Michigan football told The Athletic this week that they think if Harbaugh is offered the Raiders head coaching job, he’d take it.
They also know that Harbaugh can be hard to read. Their hunches could be wrong — but they also know he’s never coached anywhere longer than four years prior to his seven years and running in Ann Arbor. They’ve each believed that he, at some point, would want to coach in the NFL again.
The Raiders and Bears have been the two teams consistently connected to Harbaugh in reports this offseason, so it does make sense. However, these have only been “reports” and “rumors”, with nothing being concrete.
Harbaugh has been radio silent as well, but that was expected.
As it stands now, the Bears SHOULD still be involved with Harbaugh but if they really want to land him in this process, they may have to up the ante with Sin City.
For more on the Monsters of the Midway and their coaching search, make sure to check out our Chicago Bears forum.
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Bulls’ Zach LaVine and Lonzo Ball to miss upcoming three-city road trip
Both starting guards have been dealing with left knee injuries, and while LaVine was making progress in his therapy path, Ball was not. According to coach Billy Donovan, Ball was starting a different therapy and the hope was it would bring positive results.
The starting backcourt remained an issue for the Bulls.
Specifically, it was still absent.
Both Zach LaVine and Lonzo Ball were dealing with left knee issues, and not only missed the Wednesday showdown with division-rival Cleveland, but according to coach Billy Donovan, will not go on the upcoming three-city road trip, starting Friday in Milwaukee.
LaVine was progressing with his current therapy for the knee, and was even on the court shooting free throws, working on form shooting, and in a strength program. That doesn’t mean there’s a definite timetable for LaVine’s return, but Donovan sounded upbeat with where LaVine was at.
Not so much with Ball.
“When he was on the road with us and not playing in Boston, there was treatment he was given, didn’t really respond great to that,’’ Donovan said of Ball. “Met with the doctor, there’s another set of treatments going on right now. We’ll probably know more once we see how he responds to that.
“That’s why there was a reason to get him back as soon as possible from Memphis because you just don’t want to waste days for any player. You want to make sure they’re able to see the doctors and the doctors are able to look at images … once they did that they’re on another path now and we’ll see how he responds to that.’’
Donovan had no further details on Ball’s knee other than that, but the team is now listing the injury as a bone contusion.
With LaVine and Ball out, that means LaVine’s 24.9 points per game, and Ball’s team-best 5.1 assists per game. It also takes a lot of three-point shooting away, with Ball a 42.3% three-point shooter and LaVine at 41.2%.
With those two out, Donovan again went with the starting duo of Coby White and rookie Ayo Dosunmu.
Welcome back
The Bulls finally got Alex Caruso back against the Cavs, after the guard was sidelined for almost a month with a hamstring, a brief come back until a mid-foot sprain, and then into the NBA’s health and safety protocols for the last few weeks.
A lot of sitting around for the defensive specialist, and a lot of frustration.
“I didn’t have that competitive outlet for almost a month,” Caruso told reporters. “And for a guy who [is 27 years old], for almost 20 years of my life I’ve played basketball. I’m a winner. I’ve been structured, wired to, January and December I’m playing basketball. I’m competing and playing. To not have that was a struggle for me.’’
So who was the first assignment for Caruso when he checked in Wednesday? Of course the 6-foot-5 combo guard locked up with 6-8 power forward Kevin Love.
Caruso was on a minutes restriction of about 24 minutes for the time being, and as long as he responds well on Thursday, his playing time will slowly increase.
Up the Hill
The Bulls announced before the game with the Cavs that forward Malcolm Hill was signed to a two-way contract.
The former Illini starter was originally brought in on a 10-day contract, and flashed immediately in the playing time he was given for the short-handed Bulls. That included scoring 12 in the loss to Memphis on Monday afternoon.
A spot became available when the Bulls waived guard Devon Dotson. The Bulls were guard heavy even with all the injuries, and needed more help in the frontcourt. Hill gives them that.
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Bears interview Ran Carthon for GM job
San Francisco 49ers director of personnel Ran Carthon walks onto the field before an NFL football game between the 49ers and the Minnesota Vikings in Santa Clara, Calif., Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021. | Jed Jacobsohn, AP Photos
Carthon, whose 49ers are in the second round of the NFC playoffs, conducted a similar interview with the Giants on Monday.
Add another name to the Bears’ general manager search: Ran Carthon.
The Bears interviewed Carthon, the 49ers’ player personnel director, on Wednesday. Carthon, whose team is in the second round of the NFC playoffs, conducted a similar interview with the Giants on Monday.
Carthon was the pro personnel director for the previous five seasons with the 49ers before being promoted last year. He was the Rams’ pro personnel director from 2012-16.
Carthon played three seasons with the Colts after a standout career playing running back at Florida. His dad Maurice is a former NFL player and coach.
He is the ninth GM candidate interviewed by the Bears over the last week. The team has talked to the Browns’ Glenn Cook and Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, the Bears’ own Champ Kelly, the Saints’ Jeff Ireland, the Titans’ Monti Ossenfort, the Bills’ Joe Schoen, the Colts’ Ed Dodds, the Patriots’ Eliot Wolf and Carthon.
Wednesday, Dodds withdrew from the search, per NFL Network.
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Blackhawks will have an Olympian, after all, in prospect goalie Drew Commesso
Drew Commesso was keeping a secret.
The Boston University sophomore — and Blackhawks’ top prospect goaltender — had learned the night of Jan. 6 he’d been selected to represent the U.S. in the Winter Olympics. He’d immediately called his parents, and his mom “almost started crying.” But they were the only people he told.
“We had two big games the following days, so I didn’t really want anyone in the [BU] organization to know because I didn’t want it to be a distraction,” he said Wednesday. “I was really just focused on playing two great games for the team and worrying about that news later.”
That Commesso did, saving a combined 61 of 64 shots as the Terriers swept their two-game series against Arizona State, 7-1 and 5-2.
His ability — at just age 19 — to compartmentalize that seismic information to concentrate on the task at hand was impressive. It also demonstrated perfectly why he’ll be trusted to help backstop a patchwork American roster next month in Beijing against European teams stacked with professionals.
The Hawks have high hopes down the road for Commesso, their 2020 second-round pick who has since gone 15-10-4 with a .912 save percentage in his first 31 NCAA appearances. Since Thanksgiving, he’s 5-0-1 with a .948 save percentage.
In the meantime, though, Commesso might actually be the Hawks’ lone 2022 Olympian, with Patrick Kane, Seth Jones, Alex DeBrincat, Lukas Reichel, Dominik Kubalik, Philipp Kurashev and Marc-Andre Fleury having all lost their opportunities to compete when the NHL pulled out last month.
It’s a “surreal” feeling for Commesso, considering his vivid memories of watching Jonathan Quick tend goal for the U.S. in Sochi in 2014 while sitting in the basement of his Massachusetts family home.
And after losing last month his own last opportunity to compete in the World Junior Championships, which were abruptly canceled due to COVID-19 cases, this Olympic shot has taken on even more meaning.
“All the stuff was going on at World Juniors, and one of my best friends, [Senators prospect] Jake Sanderson, and I were on the bus,” he said. “We looked at each other when some of the [Olympic] news came out and were like, ‘This could be a possibility for us.’ We were keeping our fingers crossed.”
Commesso might start out third on the U.S.’s goalie depth chart. Strauss Mann, a 23-year-old Connecticut native currently playing in the Swedish league, and Pat Nagle, a 34-year-old Michigan native with 11 seasons of AHL and ECHL experience, are also on the roster.
It’ll nonetheless provide valuable experience for a teenager who already acts, talks and plays like a veteran.
He credited lessons learned from the popular Jeff Olsen self-help book “The Slight Edge” for changing his “perspective and attitude,” turning his season around. Among his new habits: waking up early to stretch, read and jot down thing he’s looking forward to, and winding down before bed by unplugging, applying essential oils and reflecting on his day.
On the ice, he has worked to improve his skating and maneuverability in particular, calling this his “biggest season of development” yet.
The Hawks are watching closely; Commesso said he’s “so grateful for the amount of people from the Hawks organization that have reached out to congratulate” him. After the season, they’ll sit down to discuss future plans, although it’d seemingly make sense for him to return to Boston for his junior year before signing a contract.
He has something rather big to think about first, though. The US team will arrive in China on Feb. 4, just over two weeks from now.
“There’s so many stages [of hockey], and the international stage is just one of them,” he said. “I’ll just try to keep the most basic mindset: ‘It’s still a puck, and these players are still players, and my job is to go out there and stop the puck.'”
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Wednesday’s high school basketball scores
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022
CHICAGO PREP
Christ the King at Walther Christian, 7:00
Ida Crown at Northtown, 7:00
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
Northridge at Latin, 6:00
INTERSTATE EIGHT
Kaneland at Rochelle, 7:00
Morris at Ottawa, 7:00
Plano at LaSalle-Peru, 7:00
Sycamore at Sandwich, 6:45
LAKE SHORE ATHLETIC
British School at Beacon, 6:30
Lycee Francais at Waldorf, 6:00
LITTLE TEN
Somonauk at Serena, 7:00
NIC – 10
Boylan at Belvidere, 7:00
NOBLE LEAGUE – BLUE
Muchin at Baker, 7:00
Noble Academy at Mansueto, 7:00
Noble Street at Hansberry, 7:00
Pritzker at Golder, 7:00
NORTH SUBURBAN
Zion-Benton at Mundelein, 7:00
NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY
Grayslake Central at Wauconda, 7:00
North Chicago at Antioch, 7:00
Round Lake at Lakes, 7:00
PUBLIC LEAGUE RED-WEST / NORTH
Clark at Farragut, 5:00
Lincoln Park at Marshall, 5:00
Orr at North Lawndale, 6:30
Schurz at Young, 6:30
Westinghouse at Lane, 5:00
PUBLIC LEAGUE WHITE-NORTH
Foreman at Uplift, 6:00
Lake View at Von Steuben, 5:00
Northside at Prosser, 6:00
Sullivan at Mather, 5:00
Taft at Senn, 5:00
PUBLIC LEAGUE WHITE-WEST
Clemente at Legal Prep, 5:00
Collins at Jones, 6:30
Payton at Perspectives-MSA, 5:00
Raby at Austin, 5:00
Wells at Crane, 5:00
PUBLIC LEAGUE BLUE-NORTH
ASPIRA-Bus&Fin at North Grand, 5:00
Chicago Math & Science at Chicago Academy, 5:00
Disney at Steinmetz, 5:00
Marine at Roosevelt, 5:00
Rickover at Alcott, 5:00
PUBLIC LEAGUE BLUE-WEST
Chicago Collegiate at Juarez, 6:30
Douglass at Chicago Tech, 5:00
Kelvyn Park at Ogden, 5:00
Phoenix at Manley, 5:00
RIVER VALLEY
St. Anne at Beecher, 7:00
SOUTHWEST PRAIRIE – EAST
Plainfield South at Joliet West, 6:30
TRI-COUNTY
Marquette at Dwight, 7:00
NON CONFERENCE
ACERO-Cruz at Intrinsic-Downtown, 6:30
Belvidere North at Harvard, 7:00
Butler at Thornwood, 6:30
Byron at Woodstock North, 7:15
Clifton Central at Manteno, 7:00
Glenbrook North at Yorkville Christian, 7:00
LaMoille at Midland, 7:00
Lincoln-Way West at Joliet Central, 6:30
Lowpoint-Washburn at Galva, 7:00
Richmond-Burton at Rockford Christian, 7:00
Riverside-Brookfield at St. Edward, 7:00
Rochelle Zell at Cristo Rey-St. Martin, 5:30
St. Bede at Seneca, 7:00
Tri-Point at Woodland, 7:00
Westlake Christian at Carmel, 7:00
Woodstock at Genoa-Kingston, 7:00
SALEM
East St. Louis vs. Highland, 6:30
Salem vs. Carbondale, 8:00
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Was the Bears result against the Vikings inevitable, or a failure of the day?
On January 9th, the Bears suffered a rough 31-17 loss to the Vikings. This has been a mediocre season for the Bears, both at home and away. Finishing with 11 losses and 6 wins has landed them near the bottom of the NFC North and out of the running for the Super Bowl.
The Bears aren’t the safest team to bet on. They haven’t won a Super Bowl since 1986 and this season has been another fairly lackluster one. We will need to wait to see if the changes to the coaching staff have a positive impact.
One reason to keep an eye on who’s hired for the General Manager and Head Coach positions is that this could have a dramatic effect on the odds offered on Bears games next season. With sports betting becoming increasing popular around the country, a new season is the perfect time to get in on the action.
A bookmaker guide, like the one at www.bookmakers.com, is a great resource for sports bettors looking to find trustworthy bookmakers, the best odds, and available welcome bonuses and special offers. Even if you already have a favorite online sportsbook, it’s always worth checking a guide.
Are there bigger factors in play that made this loss inevitable? Or did the team just have one of those bad days that every team has occasionally. It’s most likely a bit of both. This article will look at what factors combined to make the last game of the season such a disappointment.
Echoes of past performances?
The last time these two teams met back in December, the Vikings beat the Bears 17 to 9. That game was closer, but it still wasn’t a great showing for the Bears. The narrative surrounding that game was that it was the Vikings’ last game to get their act together in order to secure a spot in the playoffs.
The Bears had 14 players on the reserve/Covid-19 list in that game, so they were already at a disadvantage. Their touchdown didn’t come until the fourth quarter and throughout the game the team struggled with giving away penalties.
Based on this performance, it would have been expected for the next meeting between the two to go roughly the same – especially since the games were so close in the schedule to one another. To see the Bears lose by almost twice as many points suggests it was a breakdown on the day.
What went wrong?
Throwing away a decent lead is evidence for the argument that something went wrong on the day. The Bears offense obviously had the ability to put points on the board, and the defensive line proved it could hold strong against whatever the Vikings could throw at it.
As the second half started, things started to go downhill. By the fourth quarter, the team had totally collapsed. So what happened? How did a team that looked like it would hold its own and end an unfortunate season on a high note, end up falling apart so badly?
It seems to have been a mix of poor decision-making and mediocre play for the most part – there were three moments when the Bears could have gone for the conversion at the 4th-and-1, but instead, they chose to throw each time. And each time it went badly for them, with sacks and turnovers.
What exactly went wrong with the defense is harder to identify, it was almost like a different team came out to play the second half. The clearest issue is that they had severe struggles against the Vikings’ air game, ultimately costing them.
Morale
The last few years have been hard on everyone and sometimes it’s easy to forget that this includes professional athletes too. The Bears have been no exception. The constant stress about whether or not they’ll be able to play is bad enough, but it has also made it hard to plan and strategize.
The other major morale issue seems to have been head coach Matt Nagy. Recent press has revealed that his ego and inability to communicate well with players led to him pulling stunts like not showing up for one on one meetings with players that he was upset with, namely former quarterback Mitch Trubisky.
Though he was described early on in his tenure with the Bears as a ‘leader of men’-style coach, he seems to have become completely disconnected from his players and the fans. This level of dysfunction and division is a struggle for even the best team to cope with.
When it comes down to it, losing that game was probably inevitable — especially with so many players out due to Covid-19. The Bears were a tired and frustrated team. Losing so badly, however, that was due to decisions made on the day.
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