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Rival Hires Car Salesman Fired for Wearing Packers Tie

A Chicago car salesman fired for wearing a Green Bay Packers tie on the job is now working for his former boss's rival dealership. John Stone, 34, said he wore the green-and-gold tie Monday to honor his late grandmother, who was a huge Packers fan. She died recently and was buried on Friday, two days before the NFC...

Gale Sayers Talks Bears-Packers Game, Lovie Smith's Future

NEW YORK -- Gale Sayers, the Pro Football Hall of Famer who played seven seasons with the Chicago Bears, knows exactly what the Packers need to do in order to keep the Bears at bay in this Sunday's NFC championship game. "I think if Devin (Hester) gets his hands on the football," Sayers told FanHouse, "the Green Bay...

First Day of New Jersey Hunt Bags 264 Bears

(Dec. 7) -- The thousands of hunters who set off into the woods of northern New Jersey for the six-day black bear hunt bagged 264 of the bruins on the first day. Monday's tally was the highest one-day take in the seven years of the hunt, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported. The last hunt was in 2005. The hunt is aimed at...

Contrary to Popular Belief, Sarah Palin Isn't Mama Grizzly's Best Friend

(Nov. 22) -- Dogged Sarah Palin critic Andrew Sullivan recently unpacked the ex-Alaska governor's record on bears and found it doesn't mesh with the warmth she professes for them on her TLC reality show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska." "As she coos over them on TLC and anthropomorphizes them for the Tea Party, she tends not to...

Dancing Bear-Gate Strikes The Washington Post

ANALYSIS (Nov. 3) -- The Washington Post has a long and storied tradition of groundbreaking journalism, the pinnacle of which still arguably remains the Watergate investigation. As recently as Monday, staff writer Andrew Higgins produced a great story on U.S. military contracts to shady operators in...