Walter Payton

There's a widely accepted axiom in the NFL that you are what your record says you are. The Chicago Bears hit November with a 4-3 mark, same as last year's after seven games. If they're running in place, it's viewed...

I knocked on the office door, and the old man answered. He was hunched over, with sunken eyes and brown skin that looked weathered. He wore a blue Members Only jacket, denim jeans and white Reebok sneakers. When he...

Where is he now, you ask? As William (the Refrigerator) Perry was wont to do with opposing backs, let us turn the question on its head: Where isn't he?

Nick of Iowa City asks a question that sounds logical but really doesn't ... ah, why criticize the poor bugger right at the top of the show? Here's the question: Given the size (7-1, 325 or maybe more) of Shaquille...

When Patriots quarterback Tom Brady hosted Saturday Night Live in April, he followed in a long tradition of sports figures who have taken on that role. That tradition has been sometimes proud, sometimes painful. Here...