Daniel Pompei
Reporter, Specialist
My Role
Covers the Chicago Bears and pro football.
My Biography
Dan Pompei has covered more than 500 NFL games and 23 Super Bowls in a career that has taken him from the Sun-Times to The Sporting News to the Tribune. He is one of 44 selectors for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and one of nine members of the senior committee. Follow him on facebook.
My Interests
Fitness, marine fish, family and church activities.
My Recent Articles
It's fitting Urlacher ends career as lifelong Bear
5/22/2013
It wouldn't have been right for great middle linebacker to don colors of rival for swan song There will be no purple smudge on the accomplishments of Brian Urlacher. The sight of him with some sort of cat or bird on his helmet never will make anyone wince. He will not have that moment when he makes us recall Willie Mays with the Mets.
Pompei: Urlacher still had what it takes 5/22/2013
Brian Urlacher's retirement is a surprise. A pretty big surprise. This is why: The middle linebacker still can play.
Urlacher deserving of 54-gun salute 5/22/2013
Angelo on likely Hall of Famer: 'If you drew up the perfect player … there wasn't anything he couldn't do' When Brian Urlacher held up that navy blue jersey for the first time on that April day in 2000, his face a little pimply and his scalp covered with closely cropped blond hair, no one had any idea what 54 would come to represent.
Onobun growing as tight end by leaps and bounds 5/22/2013
And that's somewhat fitting as Bears hopeful spent formative athletic years playing basketball You have to be cautious about what you see from a football team when buds still are on the trees and pads still are in the lockers.
McCown fits profile for NFL backup QB 5/18/2013
There aren't many, and certainly not many available, who bring more to role than Bears' No. 2. Bears fans may be more panicked about Josh McCown being the team's backup quarterback than they were about the Chicago-area water levels being higher than sled hills last month.
It wouldn't have been right for great middle linebacker to don colors of rival for swan song There will be no purple smudge on the accomplishments of Brian Urlacher. The sight of him with some sort of cat or bird on his helmet never will make anyone wince. He will not have that moment when he makes us recall Willie Mays with the Mets.
Pompei: Urlacher still had what it takes 5/22/2013
Brian Urlacher's retirement is a surprise. A pretty big surprise. This is why: The middle linebacker still can play.
Urlacher deserving of 54-gun salute 5/22/2013
Angelo on likely Hall of Famer: 'If you drew up the perfect player … there wasn't anything he couldn't do' When Brian Urlacher held up that navy blue jersey for the first time on that April day in 2000, his face a little pimply and his scalp covered with closely cropped blond hair, no one had any idea what 54 would come to represent.
Onobun growing as tight end by leaps and bounds 5/22/2013
And that's somewhat fitting as Bears hopeful spent formative athletic years playing basketball You have to be cautious about what you see from a football team when buds still are on the trees and pads still are in the lockers.
McCown fits profile for NFL backup QB 5/18/2013
There aren't many, and certainly not many available, who bring more to role than Bears' No. 2. Bears fans may be more panicked about Josh McCown being the team's backup quarterback than they were about the Chicago-area water levels being higher than sled hills last month.