Don Pierson

1. BUCCANEERS (1-1): Think they will have any more kicks blocked? 2. CHIEFS (2-0): Defense looks good enough to win so far. 3. COLTS (2-0): You would think the town...

It's strange that seven of the eight teams that started 2-0 last season failed to make the playoffs. Oakland was the only 2-0 team that advanced. It's stranger that none...

They were second-guessing New York Giants coach Jim Fassel Tuesday for another loss involving special teams. It was the one area the Giants tried hardest to fix after getting knocked...

It's little wonder why Maurice Clarett plans to challenge the NFL draft rule. He's a running back, and runners proved over the weekend they can still rule in the NFL....

You have to get to the passer. In all the NFL openers, the Bears had the biggest disparity between sacks and sacks allowed. They got zero and gave up five...

Dick Jauron, meet Dave Wannstedt. You seem to have more in common than you might care to know. What is it about coaching Chicago's football team? Is it dangerous, like...

Only seven teams have repeated Super Bowl titles. None has opened a defense as impressively as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did in their 17-0 dismantling of the Philadelphia Eagles on...

Rams quarterback Kurt Warner was released from a New York hospital Monday and returned to St. Louis after suffering a "mild to moderate" concussion against the Giants. It was Rams...

Compelling matchups dot the NFL landscape on the opening weekend, including rematches of the NFC and AFC title games--Tampa Bay vs. Philadelphia and Oakland vs. Tennessee. Nothing is more intense...

Nobody was looking forward to the opening of the NFL season more than Jerry Diehl. A 57-year-old milkman from Oak Lawn, Diehl had just bought his DirecTV subscription to NFL...