Don Pierson

Coach Dick Jauron's Bears lost to St. Louis and Tampa Bay in the last two weeks of the season. For four years before that, he was defensive coordinator of the...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers don't have a chance. If they beat the St. Louis Rams in Sunday's NFC championship game, it will be the greatest playoff upset in, let's see,...

The St. Louis Rams took the hottest assistant coach in the league off the job market Monday by promising offensive coordinator Mike Martz he eventually would succeed Dick Vermeil as...

Not since 1983 have rookies had such a dramatic impact on the NFL regular season and the playoffs. Indianapolis running back Edgerrin James is the first rookie to lead the...

The trouble with replaying the Home Run Throwback so much is that football fans probably never will get to see it again in real life. "We won't be able to...

It turns out the 6-10 Bears had a much better season than the 8-8 Green Bay Packers. The Bears spent $59.2 million in salaries in 1999 and the Packers spent...

The St. Louis Rams stick out so far in front of the NFL playoff pack that they are unbelievable. Maybe they are too good to be true. In outscoring their...

Doug Flutie lost his job as quarterback of the Buffalo Bills for the start of the NFL playoffs when coach Wade Phillips named Rob Johnson to start Saturday's game against...

Shaun King was a frustrated 11-year-old fan of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers growing up in St. Petersburg, Fla., when Paul Gruber was a rookie left tackle from Wisconsin. A dozen...

If Mike Ditka is right about being back to coach the New Orleans Saints next year and Bill Parcells survives the New York Jets' new ownership, the only coach expected...