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Los Chicago Bulls pondrán a disposición la transmisión en español de 20 partidos en casa esta temporada a través de la función SAP (programa de audio secundario), comenzando con el partido inaugural en casa de hoy sábado por la noche contra los Wizards.Las emisiones por SAP estarán disponibles en las señales lineales y en la aplicación móvil de Chicago Sports Network, así como en Bulls.com, que sólo transmitirá el audio. Miguel Esparza relatará la acción acompañado por Elio Benítez y Jorge Moreno, quienes compartirán la labor de analista.Los Bulls transmitieron los 41 partidos en casa en la emisora en español WRTO-AM (1200) durante los últimos tres años. Pero la emisora, propiedad de Latino Media Network, dejó de transmitirlos. La emisión por SAP fue la solución del equipo. Se cree que es la primera vez que los Bulls usan SAP. La Voz Chicago WhatsAppEncuentra más noticias en nuestro canal de WhatsApp. Síguenos. Traducido con una herramienta de inteligencia artificial (IA) y editado por los seres humanos de La Voz Chicago

A Chatham landlord was charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a tenant in the same apartment where he reportedly murdered another woman, according to Chicago police. Jerry Powe, 58, was charged with first degree murder, aggravated sexual assault with a weapon and aggravated kidnapping, police said. Police received a 911 call about 9:20 a.m. Thursday from a friend of a 28-year-old woman who reported being sexually assaulted at gunpoint by her landlord at an apartment in the 8100 block of South Ellis Avenue, according to reports from the Chicago police and the city’s Office of Emergency Management and Communication.The 28-year-old woman said while the attack happened, she noticed another woman who “may be dead” on a couch, according to the reports.Around the same time, Powe walked into the Grand Crossing District police station and “admitted to killing victim by strangulation,” according to the police report. When police conducted a well-being check at the Ellis Avenue address, they reported finding the door locked, and no one answering. Fire department crews opened the door and found the unresponsive victim, an unidentified 36-year-old woman, unclothed and covered in a sheet, on a couch in the living room, according to the report.She was pronounced dead on the scene by the University of Chicago Medical Center, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Powe was scheduled to appear in court Saturday.

Thirty-seven. Thirty-one. That’s it. So far.It was the points the numbers represented that set off the contrast. Suspect from Day 1, the points put up by other teams against the Bears’ defense began to look and feel like anomalies.Because, well, hell, on other days, in other games, where the numbers weren’t north of 30, the unit — whatever that happened to look like from week to week, whoever was able to suit up — defensive coordinator Dennis Allen put on the field to defend Chicago’s NFL honor somehow kept defying expectations.It was recently said Allen had ‘‘arguably coached one of his best games’’ as the Bears’ DC. His blitz scheming called ‘‘brilliant.’’ His mastery to ‘‘manipulate the protection count,’’ as former NFL safety Matt Bowen referred to it, was ‘‘great football.’’On the Patriots’ first drive Thursday night, in between downs, Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit, maybe predicting whom their Amazon Prime team would have to give further accolades to after the game, side-barred a segment to give Allen his flowers. The word ‘‘genius’’ was being tossed around.Before all of this, before these last few games in which the Bears’ defense — while in flux — still found an identity, before the season began, the responsibility that belonged to Allen was doubted at inception.The rundown since: Holding three of the seven teams they’ve played to 12 points or fewer. Holding a running back who’s on the short list in the MVP conversation (Bijan Robinson) to nine carries was a thing of beautiful resistance and denial. A run defense last season that was 27th in the NFL sits at No. 8 so far this season. A third-down defense that ranks No. 2 in the NFL. A points per game and total yards given up that were, (dis)respectively, 23rd and 29th in the NFL last season are now categories in which the Bears’ defense stands eighth and 11th, respectively.Holding a team in the Patriots, who had been averaging more than 32 points in their previous four games to 24. Their fewest since Week 2.It’s all DA. Take away the 16 points the defense allowed the Falcons in the fourth quarter, the six-reception, 143-yard, two-TD peace de’ Christian Watson put on them a few weeks ago and the breakdown on the last play of the first half against the Patriots, and Allen’s ‘‘bend but don’t break’’ defense has been close to unbroken.He lives in this Bears culture in some unique form of anonymity. Inside of the shadow coach Ben Johnson casts. Making lemonade outta Hennessy and bruised lemons. The Bears’ BKS.No Montez Sweat, Tyrique Stevenson (though he played Thursday), Coby Bryant, T.J. Edwards, Dayo Odeyingbo. No prob. No panic. Daniel Hardy, James Lynch, Grady Jarrett, Cam Lewis, Clark Phillips, D’Marco Jackson. Risen to occasion and opportunity. Add the sustained glimpses of overachievement of rookies Dillon Thieneman at safety and Malik Muhammad at corner, and all Allen has to do is play perfect chess with the pieces he has to work with on any given week, at any given position.The players he continues introducing to us are basically those with no names. A dubious defense to begin with, he has seen major members of his starting unit ‘‘Bear down’’ to both injury and suspension, yet has instilled a ‘‘next Bear up’’ mentality that in this seven-week run seems very 2012-14 ‘‘Thibs-ish.’’ He has lifted them from ‘‘no-names’’ to ‘‘know names.’’As quarterback Caleb Williams’ return has shaped the way the Bears have looked since, so might the return of cornerback Kyler Gordon. Hidden. Go figure. The man about whom Allen said during his introductory news conference in 2025: ‘‘I have a vision of how we can utilize him.’’ To which Mark Grote on ‘‘Rahimi and Grote’’ said of Allen in direct relation to Gordon: ‘‘If Dennis Allen were able to get [Gordon] to double-digit sacks, he’d be the greatest [defensive] coordinator that ever lived.’’Now out there, maybe, all things considered and implementable, Allen can do with and for Gordon what Johnson has done with and for Williams.We’ll see.As Williams said, ‘‘That’s who we are: We’re gonna keep score.’’ To apply thought to expectative theory and totally paraphrase what Linus said to Charlie Brown, ‘‘Keep the score low Dennis Allen. Keep the score low.’’He has. For the most part. The perfect complement and contrast to Johnson’s mission in keeping the score high.What’s going to haunt Allen is his defense allowing more yards per target to wide receivers than any defense in the NFL. Looking one way against the Packers, another way against the Falcons and yet another against the Patriots. There’s time to find themselves. Find consistency.Again, we’ll see.As we sit back, sippin’ on the Henn and juice he continues to serve us, we can, God willin’, trust the swerve of the Bears’ above-solid ‘‘D’’ is official and real. And if this newly expected run meets the expectations the city is carrying within about how attainable the pinnacle is, then Dennis Allen is quietly putting himself in position to be this era’s Buddy Ryan. In Chicago.Not necessarily in stature or aura but in what every championship-chasing team needs the most: someone who, by hook or crook or any means, gets the improbable, implausible, unpredictable done.

This is what the leap from fun quarterback to franchise quarterback looks like.Caleb Williams has reenergized the Bears’ offense and been checking key boxes along the way. He has done it by blending his high-end talent with the foundation coach Ben Johnson laid out for him.His fundamentals lagged in his first two seasons even as he made stunning plays, but he’s now taking steps toward being a finished product. Williams showed great timing, throwing accuracy, pocket patience and decision-making while rolling up big numbers in the 30-24 win over the Patriots on Thursday — and that performance wasn’t an outlier.Imagine the reaction a year ago if he’d completed 22 of 33 passes for 308 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions for a 116.7 passer rating. Now it’s becoming relatively normal.He has completed 71% of his passes this season, second in the NFL. He’s piling up easy yardage on safe, short throws. He’s leading his receivers into space. It’s the merging of electricity and efficiency that Johnson demanded.“He has gone through the progressions a little bit quicker,” Johnson said Friday. “He's got that clock going in his head, understanding where the breakdowns are happening in protection.”Williams has always had good pocket awareness, but not always great judgment. He needed a tough grader like Johnson to help him sharpen that, and that’s why after a 2025 season in which he made some of the most incredible plays in the league, he sat Williams down in the offseason to scrutinize over 100 incomplete passes.Johnson’s relentlessness is one of the best parts of his approach to the job, and is a major factor in why Williams has a chance to be a championship-caliber quarterback. Johnson’s reaction to Thursday was that Williams did a ton right, but also could fix quite a bit.“It's a great stat line, and yet I can't wait to sit down with him and go through this [snap-by-snap] because … there's still a lot more out there for us,” he said.That’s a chore for another time.Williams deserves credit for the work he’s done to become a more polished passer. He made plays against the Patriots that were not only vital in that game, but promising for his future.All four passes to speedster Luther Burden were right where they needed to be as Burden went for 130 yards and a touchdown in the first half.On Williams’ 58- and 26-yard completions, each pass was a “runner’s ball,” as he’s been calling it under Johnson, meaning Burden could catch them in stride with room to run. The Patriots didn’t allow the Bears those opportunities on the other two passes, but Williams was on target to Burden for 37 and 24 yards.He made three crucial passes in the fourth quarter in which pressure was closing in on him and he showed great discipline by staying in the pocket and delivering the ball downfield:- Patriots linebacker Christian Elliss got a hand on his left shoulder when he dropped back on third-and-11 from his own 13-yard line, but rather than run, Williams shook him off, held his ground and fired to Rome Odunze for 21 yards.- Later that drive, facing fourth-and-two near midfield, Williams hung in the pocket as pressure pushed toward him from three directions and found tight end Colston Loveland for nine yards.- His most important pass was on the Bears’ final drive as they tried to ice the game. On third-and-nine at his own 10-yard line, Williams dropped all the back to the end zone to buy time, then stepped forward a yard and sent a dart to Odunze for 21 yards.None of those three passes produced enduring highlights, but they were solid, professional plays that led to victory. The Bears have been desperate for years to find that in a quarterback.

Barack and Michelle Obama chose the South Side of Chicago as the home for the Obama Presidential Center in order to build an active and engaging campus for everyone, whether visitors live across the street or on the other side of the world.Since June 19, we have seen that vision come to life in extraordinary ways. We have had the privilege of enthusiastically welcoming over 220,000 visitors to the presidential museum, and hundreds of thousands more have explored the remainder of the 19.3-acre center, free of charge. Thousands of local students have participated in field trips and after-school programming at the center. Families have gathered for picnics, barbecues, movies at the John Lewis Plaza and impromptu line dances. And on these same grounds, rising leaders from our global programs and extraordinary role models have assembled to discuss new ideas, bridge divides and build a brighter future.Carrying out a mission of this scale requires tremendous effort, and our team works hard every day to ensure an exceptional experience for every visitor and program participant. Commentary bug Commentary Over the last 10 years, more than 4,500 workers have contributed to our mission, including those who helped design and construct this magical center, as well as those delivering programs that empower global change makers and improve the lives of boys and young men of color and adolescent girls. We are very grateful to them and proudly display their names on our Worker Appreciation Wall at the center, commemorating those who helped bring our vision to life.Before we opened the center to the public, we partnered with four community-based organizations to identify and recruit local residents for approximately 200 front-line roles — our team members who would spend hours a day warmly engaging our visitors from around the world, answering an array of questions with a welcoming spirit and keeping our center clean and safe. Seventeen thousand people applied, and we hired tremendously talented individuals.We knew these jobs would be demanding and wanted to give staff the tools and resources they need to perform at their very best. We worked with industry experts to help us build a robust staff training that is grounded in our values. In recognition of the caliber of employees we have working here, we designed a compensation and benefits package that is competitive and comparable to peer museums and cultural institutions across Chicago.Understanding the tremendous work it takes to live up to our standards of excellence, our goal is to operate a workplace that treats all contributors with respect and where workers’ dignity is highly valued:We maintain a transparent, ongoing dialogue with our workforce regarding growth opportunities. We have been — and will continue to be — guided by the Obamas' values, competitive compensation rates and our financial condition each year when considering staff compensation and benefits. We just kicked off our 2027 budget process, which will be completed by year end. Operating a world-class cultural institution year-round means our staffing needs have evolved from our pre-opening years, when operations were limited around the winter holidays. We needed to evolve in order to serve our community fully, because our magnificent campus is now open to the public year-round. Since our opening in June, our employee turnover has been less than 10%, which is on par with peer organizations and which also includes planned departures as a result of the conclusion of the construction phase. As our staff begins to consider union representation, we will approach their right to make their own organizing decisions in good faith, with immense gratitude for their many contributions, deep respect for unions and a sincere commitment to working collaboratively with our partners in labor.We are greater than the sum of our parts. The center tells a story that the extraordinary history of the Obamas wasn’t made by them alone; it was made by countless people upon whose shoulders they stand and those who have stood by them through all the ups and downs.And so we take seriously our responsibility as fiscal stewards of the Obamas’ vision, so every dollar we invest must create lasting value for our visitors to the center and our amazing program participants for generations to come. We wouldn’t be able to achieve this vision without our talented and dedicated team.Valerie Jarrett is CEO and a board member at the Obama Foundation. Send letters to letters@suntimes.com. More about how to submit here.