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 ...

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

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 ...

Very few people have had the kind of career Mike Ditka has enjoyed in football. A legendary tight end, Ditka then went onto enjoy a lengthy coaching career that included a Super Bowl win as the ...

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.

Legendary NFL coach Mike Ditka's wife, Diana, gave an update on her husband amid hospice rumors that recently surfaced online. The former Chicago Bears head coach is 85.

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 ...

Mike Ditka had success as an NFL coach and player . Ditka, 85, was the head coach of the Bears from 1982 to 1992 and the New Orleans Saints from 1997 to 1999.

Surname was changed from Dyczko to Ditka when he was young. Nicknamed “Iron Mike,” “Da Coach” and “The Hammer.” Five-time Pro Bowl player (1961-1965 seasons). NFL tight end with the ...

Hall of Fame former Chicago Bears head coach Mike Ditka and his wife, Diana, have placed their longtime two-bedroom, 1,904-square-foot condominium on the 39th floor of a Streeterville high-rise on ...