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They are big, immobile and can't block anybody but -- unlike the Bears' offensive line -- the five orange safety cones that head coach Lovie Smith brought to practice late last week allowed the offense to successfully run some plays, which Smith credited for his team's improvement in Sunday night's 39-10 thrashing of the Vikings.

The Cubs sent renewal invoices to their season ticket holder base this weekend and took the unique route of asking several thousand of their customers to just go ahead and make their checks out to "Alfonso Soriano in care of the Chicago Cubs."

In the first edition of "Deep Thoughts...by Lovie Smith," the Bears head coach ponders the complexities of timeouts.

“It should be amazing,” said linebacker Lance Briggs. “You grow up dreaming about putting a career-ending hit on a great quarterback, but you never really think it will happen, you know?”

“‘Proud’ does not accurately reflect the feelings of our company’s owners and management when we see the on-field play of the Vikings and Colts,” the memo says. “At best, the emotion could be described as ‘mild discomfiture’.”

Play along while watching the Bears battle the Vikings in a game nobody outside of Chicago and Minnesota thinks should be in prime time. Click the above board for a larger, printer-friendly version.

An unprecedented scenario played out behind the scenes Saturday night shortly after the Blackhawks loss to the Boston Bruins: Patrick Kane went straight home.