Mike Ditka as a coach. George Halas announces that Mike Ditka will be the next Bears coach on Jan. 20, 1982. 1. Buddy Ryan and Mike Ditka are carried by Bears players after winning the Super Bowl ...

That`s the story of the Chicago Bears since Mike Ditka`s return to Chicago. If 1984 was the year in which Ditka silenced critics who questioned his style of coaching, ...

If the Ditka Coaching Tree were organic rather than conceptual, it’d be a crab apple tree, all twisted shoots reaching for the sun. This year’s prime example is Ron Rivera, a Bears linebacker ...

The story behind the hatred between trash-talking Washington defensive end Dexter Manley and iconic Chicago Bears head coach ...

As a Hall of Fame tight end and a Super Bowl-winning coach, Mike Ditka was known for many things but chief among them his tough, no-nonsense attitude on the sidelines. Even though he's left the ...

"Buddy was such an integral part of the Chicago Bears and the ‘85 Bears,” Ditka told the NFL Network. “There’s no way we win anything without his defense and without his coaching.

Ditka not only couldn't plant a coaching tree, he couldn't pick a quarterback either. Ditka paved over players and made them parking lots. Just ask Mike Tomczak's shrink.

Mike Ditka turns 85 — but no celebratory cigars for Da Coach The legendary Chicago Bears coach and his wife are “doing great” in Florida, but missing Chicago, Diana Ditka told Sneed.

Mike Ditka, the former NFL coach who led the Chicago Bears to a Super Bowl championship in January 1986, was hospitalized in Florida earlier this week after suffering a heart attack, according to ...

NFL Hall of Famer Mike Ditka has returned to Chicago and not in hospice, he and his wife, Diana, told the Chicago Sun-Times. Ditka played for the Bears from 1961-66 before coaching the team from ...