Brian makes more threats
Chicago Bears05/14/2008 5:08 PM The Chicago Sun-Times reports LB Brian Urlacher is threatening to retire again. Actually, Urlacher apparently was joking Monday when he brought up the subject with Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports while talking about media reaction to his demand for a contract extension. ''They're killing me in Chicago,'' Urlacher said. ''I think I should just go ahead and retire.'' It wasn't so funny last month when an incensed Urlacher accused the Chicago Sun-Times of writing a gossip column when it revealed that Urlacher's representatives had asked for a trade and threatened he would retire because of injury -- and thus not have to pay back any signing bonus from his $56.65 million deal -- in an effort to get more money from the Bears. Read more