Bernie Lincicome

Are the 49ers just smarter than everyone else? "Sure," quarterback Steve Young said. "Why not?" At eye level across the foyer rest five Lombardi trophies, sleek, shiny, smug. Oddly, only...

Short of some grudge cheap shot in one of those assorted college all-star grunt and gropes that seem to go on from now to Super Bowl Sunday, nothing tactile can...

Chapped lips have to be all that keeps Green Bay from licking its chops at the chance to play San Francisco, the, chuckle, best team in pro football. By beating...

With a rosy dusk framing the San Gabriel Mountains, 29 years after the last national title won by a Big Ten team was confirmed upon the same storied sod of...

Without a photo ID and a body-cavity search, it is impossible to tell who is the bully in the Rose Bowl and who is about to lose his lunch money...

Ryan Leaf would look very good in a Bears uniform. He could show the tight ends what they are supposed to look like. Ryan Leaf would look very good in...

Voices are not likely to be raised to keep Erik Kramer as the Bears' quarterback, not by the Bears, not by the fans, not by Kramer's teammates, alas. Not by...

Never before could it be so truly said that a year in sports bites, and Evander Holyfield has a souvenir ear fragment somewhere to prove it. Time once again for...

Well, somebody had to lose. A tie in this game would have been like kissing your livestock. If this one had been a prize fight, instead of whatever it was,...

Among the original designs for the Heisman Trophy was one of a player tackling another. It was classic, contact football, equally depicting offense and defense. It was the favorite of...