The Athlon Sports 2023 Fantasy Football Annual magazine reached out to team insiders at all 32 NFL clubs to ask them three key fantasy questions heading into the season. As we count down to training camp, Sports Illustrated will publish their answers here. Today’s team: Chicago Bears
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Steve Stricker is on a roll as he earned another win on the Champions Tour and took home the American Family Insurance Championship.
Steve Stricker is unstoppable right now, as he just took home his third win in four starts after winning the American Family Insurance Championship in Madison, Wisconsin. He beat Steven Alker and Paul Broadhurst by five shots, posting an 18-under for the tournament.
Stricker logged a final round 69 to finish the tournament five shots better than the next closest competitor.
If you had no idea that Floyd Mayweather was fighting on Sunday night, you weren’t alone. But it wasn’t about what happened during the fight against John Gotti III, it was about what happened after the referee ended it.
The exhibition match that went down Sunday night at the FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Florida wasn’t discussed much before the bell rang. As a boxing fan, I had no idea that the two were ‘fighting’ tonight, but it didn’t take long for highlights to hit social media.
Welcome to 32 teams in 32 days. To get us through the offseason, we’ll be taking a closer look at every team in the league, in order of projected 2023 win totals.
For a proud franchise, the last decade has been a forgettable stretch for the Bears.
Since firing coach Lovie Smith following the 2012 season, Chicago has appeared in two playoff games and won neither. In ’17, the Bears famously passed on quarterback Patrick Mahomes to select Mitchell Trubisky, and last year they bottomed out with a 3–14 mark despite starting the season 2–1.
However, brighter days might be ahead.
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The Nuggets went through hell for decades before finally building a championship-caliber team.
Denver’s first (pro) basketball club debuted in 1948 as the “Nuggets” — on account of all that gold — with the National Basketball League. The Nuggets joined the NBA in 1949-50 before folding after one season, not enough wins, not nearly enough gold.
Denver sat dormant until 1967, when local trucking scion Bill Ringsby purchased two-thirds interest in an ABA franchise.
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The star New York running back has yet to sign the franchise tag
The New York Giants are slated to kickoff mandatory minicamp this week, and expectations are high surrounding the team. While they entered last season with almost no expectations, given the state of their roster and salary cap coming into 2022, the Giants shocked the NFL world in their first year under general manager Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll. New York secured a playoff spot and beat the Minnesota Vikings on the road in the Wild Card Round.
Wisconsin AD Chris McIntosh wants fans to understand things are going to look different this football season under Luke Fickell’s leadership.
McIntosh is responsible for pulling the trigger on firing former head coach Paul Chryst and replacing him with Fickell. The former Cincy coach had an incredible run with the Bearcats and was the first and only G5 team to ever make the College Football Playoff.
Now, he’s been tasked with turning things around in Madison after three straight disappointing seasons.
The former professional football player and BBC pundit wore a fitted red PVC dress to host the charity football match on Sunday night (11 June)
Travis Hunter apparently turned down massive amounts of money to follow Deion Sanders to Colorado.
Hunter is a former five star recruit and the top recruit in his class. He shocked the college football world when he chose to play at Jackson State over a traditional power.
Travis Hunter followed Deion Sanders to Colorado. (Photo by Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
The incredibly talented defensive back followed Sanders when he left to take over the Colorado Buffaloes. However, there were apparently serious efforts made to buy Hunter out of the portal.
Austin Killips is a male cyclist who entered the women’s category and easily won the Belgian Waffle Ride North Carolina race on Saturday.
After the race, second-place female cyclist Paige Onweller called out Killips’ advantage as a transgender competitor. She called for event organizers to create a separate category in order to preserve fairness in the women’s category.
Austin Killips, a transgender cyclist, absolutely obliterated the Women’s Waffle North Carolina race on Saturday.
Killips finished 5 minutes ahead of the pack. pic.twitter.