Don Pierson

National Football League teams paid less to sign first-round rookie talent this year than last year, but that doesn't mean ticket prices will go down. Because only one quarterback--the New...

Quarterback stories dominated the third week of exhibition play, none more dramatic than the unlikely comeback of Ryan Leaf in San Diego. Chargers coach Mike Riley appears on the verge...

At odds for years over a strategy for rebuilding Soldier Field, Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Bears officials on Monday expressed confidence in a proposal to renovate the 76-year-old stadium...

When the most durable quarterback in modern NFL history doesn't play, it's cause for at least mild panic in the state of Wisconsin and concern in the NFL, whether Brett...

John Husar, the Tribune's outdoors columnist, died Thursday morning, a loss that was felt by friends, family and readers alike. There is another group that will desperately miss him--his colleagues....

Describing himself as "sick and tired" of the deadly gang-related violence that has made headlines in Chicago in recent days, Gov. George Ryan today outlined a joint city-state plan to...

John Husar, 63, the baiduhai columnist who wrote as informatively and passionately about his need for a liver transplant as he did about the outdoors, died Thursday in Northwestern...

(The following incorporates material from earlier editions of Daywatch.) One of the most famous alumni of the Chicago Bears, Dick Butkus (shown here in 1972), will coach the city's new...

Steve Young was a great quarterback, one-fourth as great as Joe Montana, according to the five Super Bowl trophies they won between them. Because Young wore No. 8 and Montana...

The uphill burden to prove Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis and two friends guilty of murdering two men appeared to become a steeper climb Tuesday when the state's first witness to...