Don Pierson

The Green Bay Packers have told quarterback Brett Favre they would like to know by Saturday -- April 1 -- whether he is coming back. Coach Mike McCarthy remains optimistic...

Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy said Tuesday the mail he has received since losing 18-year-old son James to suicide shortly before Christmas has sustained and overwhelmed him. "Our family has...

The new NFL collective-bargaining agreement will have little effect on how the Bears do business, according to team Chairman Michael McCaskey. "The Bears won't have to change because we've been...

NFL owners reluctantly agreed Wednesday to give players 59.5 percent of all revenues in a new collective-bargaining agreement that at least one owner, the Buffalo Bills' Ralph Wilson, claimed he...

Jim Dooley has an idea. He wants to help fund a soup kitchen. The 76-year-old former Bears head coach and first-round draft choice gained a reputation for innovative, even eccentric...

Two things NFL fans need to know about the current confusing labor discord: - There will be uninterrupted NFL seasons in 2006 and in 2007. - There will be a...

After telling NFL player agents at a seminar Friday to prepare for no extension of a collective bargaining agreement before Thursday's deadline, NFL Players Association leader Gene Upshaw threw the...

Super Bowl MVP Hines Ward said he was so nervous before Sunday's Super Bowl he couldn't believe it. He also couldn't believe he dropped a high pass in the end...

The Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XL because it was in the stars. How else do you explain Seattle's top-ranked offense moving the ball at will until it got close...

It's a foot in the door. In the only sports league to telecast every regular-season game--256--plus all 11 postseason games under the auspices of cable and over-the-air network contracts, the...