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A St. Charles North High School football player who suffered a “severe brain injury” last month during a game has returned home as he awaits a second surgery, his family said.

A hard-fought Texas high school football game took a backseat to the realities of life when opponents Gage Smith and Ty Jordan came together for an emotional prayer after the final whistle last week. Smith asked Jordan if the two friends could say a prayer together for Jordan’s mother, Tiffany Jordan, 42, who has stage 4 lung and bone cancer....

A sophomore football player at St. Charles North High School is out of a coma after suffering a “severe brain injury” during a game on Friday, according to the teen’s family.

A suburban high school football player left the field in an ambulance, but it wasn’t after a big hit: it was after the game! He was in a coma for days, and although he’s making progress now, his parents are detailing his fight to our NBC 5’s Kate Chappell. 

The Chicago Bears’ offense finally showed up to the party, and their defense celebrated by forcing five turnovers in a win over the Washington Redskins on Monday night.

As the sting of a Chicago Bears loss to the Green Bay Packers still sits in the brains of sports fans, we’re taking a look at the game through a critical eye and naming this week’s Winners and Losers.

The Dallas Cowboys and Ezekiel Elliott have agreed on a $90 million, six-year contract extension that will make him the NFL’s highest-paid running back and end a holdout that lasted the entire preseason, a person with knowledge of the agreement said Wednesday.

Cedric Benson, former Bears running back, was killed in a motorcycle accident on Saturday night, according to KXAN, an NBC sister station in Austin, Texas.

Chicago Bears star Tarik Cohen will be arriving at training camp next week with a new purpose.

Chicago Bear Tarik Cohen revealed that his younger sibling was shot in North Carolina in early June and is “probably paralyzed from the waist” down.

Hollywood police say New York Jets running back Le’Veon Bell returned from the gym May 25 and found the women gone and his jewelry missing.

The Chicago Bears have signed three of their five draft picks, agreeing to four-year deals with fourth-rounder Riley Ridley and seventh-rounders Kerrith Whyte Jr. and Stephen Denmark.

If you haven’t done it already, and you’re on social media, mute LeSean McCoy’s account

Virginia has clinched a win advancing to the NCAA Championship final, after beating Auburn 63-62.

The NFL has suspended Browns running back Kareem Hunt for eight games after a video showed him kicking a woman and he was later involved in a fight at a resort.

Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said he was shocked by security camera footage showing Kareem Hunt shoving and kicking a woman in a Cleveland hotel, and that it was a collective decision by the organization to cut their star running back within hours.

The Browns’ coaching search isn’t quite ready to cross gender or diplomatic lines. General manager John Dorsey, who opened the possibility of hiring a woman to be Cleveland’s next coach, said Sunday that the team has not discussed former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a candidate to become the club’s ninth coach since 1999. ESPN, citing an anonymous league...

Northwestern leading rusher Jeremy Larkin is retiring from football after being diagnosed with cervical stenosis, a condition that causes narrowing of the spinal canal in the neck and upper back.

Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell issued a statement late Friday after being placed on administrative leave by Major League Baseball following new allegations of abuse were published by his ex-wife. Lexi Sutter reports.