Bears honor Urwiler, Rhode

Mooseheart’s Gary Urwiler and Montini’s John Rhode have been named the Bears High School Coach and Player of the Week, respectively, for Week 7.

Urwiler has one of the area’s feel-good stories of the season. The Red Ramblers, one of the few local Class 1A teams, are 7-0 and headed back to the IHSA playoffs after a 23-14 win over Longwood last week in a battle of Northeastern Athletic Conference unbeatens. That Mooseheart even has a football team, given its small enrollment, is impressive. But Urwiler’s clearly doing something right, with 52 of the school’s 65 boys in the football program.

Rhode is making up for lost time after missing the first five weeks of the season with a thumb injury suffered in the Broncos’ preseason scrimmage. He already has 11 touchdown passes: three vs. St. Francis in his season debut in Week 6 and eight more – one shy of the state record – in last weekend’s 59-14 win over St. Edward.

The Latest
Antoine Perteet, 33, targeted victims on the dating app Grindr, according to Chicago police.
Glass-facade buildings can disorient birds in flight. The city is expected to update and revise rules for new developments and rehabbed buildings next month. But bird groups say the proposed guidelines need to be mandatory.
The man was shot in the left eye area in the 5700 block of South Christiana Avenue on the city’s Southwest Side.
Most women who seek abortions are women of color, especially Black women. Restricting access to mifepristone, as a case now before the Supreme Court seeks to do, would worsen racial health disparities.
The Bears have spent months studying the draft. They’ll spend the next one plotting what could happen.