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Sports Tuesday, May 12, 2026 | | |
| | | | | Good morning, Chicago. The Bears signed four players after rookie minicamp over the weekend, including veteran wide receiver Scotty Miller and veteran linebacker Jon Rhattigan. Miller,
a Barrington native, won a Super Bowl ring with the Buccaneers in the 2020 season, during which he caught 33 passes for 501 yards and three touchdowns — all career highs. He caught nine passes for 62 yards last season with the Steelers and returned two punts for 34 yards. Wide receiver Scotty Miller catches a ball during Bears rookie minicamp on May 8, 2026, at Halas Hall in Lake Forest. (Josh Boland/Chicago Tribune) Rhattigan, a Naperville native who went to Neuqua Valley, played for the Steelers and Raiders
in 2025 and has played for four teams since going undrafted out of Army in 2021. In 12 games with the Raiders last season, he played 75% of the special teams snaps. The Bears also signed undrafted rookies Kyron Hudson, a wide receiver from Penn State, and Wayne Matthews III, a linebacker from Michigan State. They placed undrafted rookie wide receiver Squirrel White, who signed with the team last week, on the reserve/retired list. Today’s eNewspaper edition | Subscribe to more newsletters | Asking Eric | Horoscopes | Puzzles & Games | Today in History | | | | Which players should the Chicago Bulls be scouting during the NBA draft combine for the Nos. 4 and 15 picks? | | | | | It seems like the first four names called in the NBA draft on June 23 will be BYU’s AJ Dybantsa, Kansas’ Darryn Peterson, Duke’s Cameron Boozer and North Carolina’s Caleb Wilson. | | | | | The Chicago Cubs and Atlanta Braves match up in a big series starting Tuesday, with tributes to Braves legends Bobby Cox and Ted Turner expected to add to the emotions. | | | | | Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 12, according to the Tribune’s archives. | | | | | The Buffalo Bills ‘ first regular-season game in their new stadium will be against the Detroit Lions on Sept. 17 and will kick off Amazon Prime Video’s “Thursday Night Football” schedule. | | | | | The Reinsdorf and Wirtz families now argue they need the 12-year property tax cut to jump-start one of the largest developments in the city’s history. | | | |
