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Between now and NFL draft day, no potential top ten pick will be as scrutinized as Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen. And all of his so-called character issues, are truly just fabrications when you break them down. Last season, he completed 68 percent [...]

Apparently some people were upset that we didn’t cover the Super Bowl that much around here. To honor the squeaky annoying wheels out there who insist on emailing me about their perceived deficiencies on NQTC, here is the best coverage I could find. This is a video sent to me from my pops. [...]

Have you ever had one of those Sundays during the football season where you have work to do that you can’t put off?  Usually those days end up with you on the couch, your work on your lap, watching 12 hours of football and getting maybe an hour or two of work done.  The President [...]

Cedric Benson is at it again. I guess we should have  expected that Benson wouldn’t just be able to let his play do the talking next Sunday in the Bengals’ tilt against the Bears. Perhaps anticipating laying an egg this week, Benson came out firing today alleging that the Bears organization spread rumors and only [...]

I hate Brett Favre.  Cannot stand him.  But you know what I hate more than Brett Favre?  The media’s enormous boner for him.  Last night’s game was a great game except that every single announcer, feature, montage, and graphic was about slurping on Brett.
Sometimes I wonder: Is it just me?  Am I taking crazy pills?  [...]

Over the weekend, two of the big stars on the Chicago sports scene said some idiotic things.  Surprisingly enough, Ozzie Guillen wasn’t one of them (I mean I’m sure Ozzie said a lot of stupid things, but I wasn’t paying attention to him).  What I’m talking about are Zambrano’s “lazy” comment as well as Cutler [...]

Personally I have no beef with the Broncos, and the only connection we as Bears fans have with them is the recent trade of Orton and a slew of draft picks for Cutler.  I love Cutler so far, but I am the first to admit that his inability to keep his mouth shut has fanned [...]

The Basketball Hall of Fame inducted some new members this past week.  Unfortunately for Basketball, no one cares about it’s Hall.  No disrespect to Michael Jordan, Jerry Sloan, David Robinson, and the other inductees, but who really cares?
Why are Halls of Fame so different in importance from sport to sport?  I’m not entirely sure, but [...]

Top Ten Nominee tipped me off to this story last night.  Apparently some guy paid $27,000 to watch a Bears game on his laptop while he was on a cruise.  Here’s the story:
On November 2, Wayne Burdick (not pictured) was aboard a cruise ship in Miami waiting to depart on a Caribbean cruise. While still [...]

This is an old classic. On Thanksgiving in 1994, Plano East played John Tyler in a high school football game. With under 3 minutes to go, Plano East was behind 41-13. Thats when things “done gone crazy.” See for yourself: