Don Pierson

It is fitting for Phillip Daniels and Kordell Stewart to depart the Bears on the same day, reminders that what ailed the Bears when they arrived ails them still. Daniels...

Maurice Clarett won't be the first 20-year-old running back drafted by the NFL. Walter Payton was only 20 when the Bears drafted him in 1975. Barry Sanders was only 20...

Lovie Smith introduced his complete Bears coaching staff Tuesday--to each other as well as to the media. He read names off a card. It took a while. Including two "quality...

Carolina quarterback Jake Delhomme is the fourth Super Bowl starter in five years out of NFL Europe, following Tampa Bay's Brad Johnson and St. Louis' Kurt Warner twice. So it's...

THE MAGICIAN One very big reason the New England Patriots will win Super Bowl XXXVIII is that they won it all two years ago. Back then, they were heavy underdogs,...

This could be the most defensive Super Bowl since Miami's No-Name Defense beat Washington's Over-the-Hill Gang 14-7 after the 1972 season. That was the lowest-scoring Super Bowl. New England's Bill...

Ty Law knows football. Ty Law also knows the business of football. So less than an hour after intercepting three of Peyton Manning's passes in the AFC championship game, the...

If you don't like your NFL team, wait a week. It will change. That's the perception in a volatile business, but it's not always true. New Bears coach Lovie Smith...

College coaches, including LSU's Nick Saban, did not particularly want the job the Bears gave Lovie Smith because, for many, the NFL no longer is the dream job Smith said...

Ending more than two weeks of speculation and false starts, the Bears announced Wednesday night that they had hired Lovie Smith as their 14th head coach (this sentence as published...