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Bears’ Chris Conte can’t fathom how his fine matches Jared Allen’s

suntimes.com

The inequity of NFL jurisprudence continues to confound Chris Conte. The second-year Bears safety, still smarting from a $21,000 fine for an inadvertent helmet-to-helmet hit against the Carolina Panthers on Oct. 28, was surprised to see Jared Allen of t…

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The list of receivers contained by Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner, the Seattle Seahawks’ big, fast and contentious cornerbacks, is impressive. Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson and Steve Smith are on it, and up next is the Bears’ Brandon Marshall.…

Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com

Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was fined $10,000 for taunting, after flipping the ball at Vikings cornerback A.J. Jefferson last week, according to Vaughn McClure of the Chicago Tribune. Cutler was scrambling, and heading out of bounds, when he stiff-arme…

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Let's get inside the Friday injury report in the NFC North: Chicago Bears: We already knew that the Bears wouldn't have guard Chris Spencer (knee) or receivers Devin Hester and Alshon Jeffery (knee) for Sunday's game against the Seattle Seahawks. The re…

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Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher plans to appeal a fine levied by the NFL for a horse collar tackle on Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson on Sunday.

Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com

It looks like the Bears will have running back Matt Forte on the field against the Seahawks on Sunday. During last week’s victory over the Vikings, Forte tweaked the ankle injury that kept him out of one game earlier this season. He’s been sleeping in…

ESPN.com

In picking the Chicago Bears to defeat the Seattle Seahawks in this Countdown Daily video, ESPN's Mark Schlereth suggested that Bears quarterback Jay Cutler should be a candidate for the NFL's MVP award. You already know the obvious. The Bears are 13-2 …

Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com

Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher thought it was bull on Sunday, and he got the horns on Thursday. Urlacher told Vaughn McClure of the Chicago Tribune he was fined $15,750 for a horse-collar tackle on Vikings running back Adrian Peterson. He was penalized…