Don Pierson

Let's say the Bears get Peyton Manning. Or Ryan Leaf. Or any quarterback you can name. Brett Favre. In case you haven't noticed, it won't be enough. This rebuilding job...

Denver's Terrell Davis is on pace for a 2,000-yard season. Detroit's Barry Sanders became the first back ever to pop two 80-yard touchdown runs in one game. The 11 100-yard...

Warren Moon is going to make John Elway feel like a young kid again Sunday in one of several pivotal matchups to start the second half of the season. Moon...

After half a season, there are only eight losing teams in the NFL. There are 22 teams at .500 or better, an amazing number. That's the kind of parity the...

Neither the winless Bears nor the 5-2 Dolphins believe they are that far apart, just as the Bears still can't believe they lost to the Saints. "The Bears are better...

In 1971, Bears coach Jim Dooley was so intent on developing quarterback Bobby Douglass that he moved into Douglass' bachelor apartment the week of a game against the Detroit Lions....

There never has been a three-time MVP in the NFL, not that there shouldn't have been. Most valuable players tend quickly to become most taken for granted. If the Bears...

Mike Ditka has been gone five years now, and the Bears are much worse off without him. If he needed vindication, an 0-5 Bears record is enough, except he has...

Not only are the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the only unbeaten team in the NFC, the Bucs and the New York Giants are the youngest teams in the NFC, with an...

Don't ask the Bears how it's going. Emmitt Smith is the worst running back they will have faced. Dorsey Levens, Robert Smith, Barry Sanders and Curtis Martin all have outgained...