Don Pierson

Jerry Markbreit refereed his last NFL game Saturday when he called the Atlanta-San Francisco playoff. At 64, he is retiring because he can't run as well anymore. A fifth Super...

As coaches from the Bill Walsh School continue to dominate the NFL landscape, Sherman Lewis continues to get left out. One theory is Lewis never received a ringing endorsement from...

A check of the eight remaining playoff coaches reveals only Minnesota's Dennis Green in his job longer than four years. All but Arizona's Vince Tobin had been head coaches on...

Mike Singletary is qualified. More precisely, he possesses the qualities to be a successful NFL head coach. If qualification includes experience, he obviously falls short. But at four victories a...

Tribune pro football writer Don Pierson analyzes the prospects of the NFL's 12 playoff teams: NATIONAL CONFERENCE MINNESOTA VIKINGS Record: 15-1 Coach: Dennis Green Players to watch: Randy Moss and...

Michael McCaskey did nothing and said nothing Monday he hasn't said before. He only wants Bears fans to think so. He fired his coach and told his personnel man to...

The Green Bay Packers kept mentioning how hard the Bears had played. It was a way of explaining a lackluster 16-13 win Sunday in Soldier Field. It wasn't that the...

The Bears are owned in part by 13 grandchildren of the late founder George Halas, who bypassed daughter Virginia Halas McCaskey and willed the team directly to the third generation...

There aren't many games around the NFL Sunday that mean much to either team. With playoff positions pretty well set, the regular season ends with a fizzle rather than a...

Most people around Halas Hall believe Dave Wannstedt will be back coaching the Bears next season, even though most people admit the logic is difficult to follow. One man will...