Vince Lombardi

Chad Knaus

It's 9 o'clock on a fall night 20 years ago in Rockford, Ill., and a local short-track ace and his crew chief have been underneath their car since sunrise. That's the way it has always been for Chad Knaus, the then-14-year-old...

Manchester City 0-1 Manchester United: Wayne Rooney worth his weight in goals as Fergie wins it ugly

Sir Alex Ferguson's favourite book is the autobiography of legendary American football coach Vince Lombardi, who turned perennial losers Green Bay Packers into NFL champions. After this bruising derby win, which kept Manchester...

NFL: Time for Giants to do the right thing with Plaxico Burress

Professional football is not your average everyday business. If you miss work and skip meetings and curse out your boss in your average everyday business, you do not get the chance to carry around a loaded weapon while still...

NFL: Week 13 Capsules

By Bob Christ • Special to the RGJ • November 30, 2008 San Francisco (3-8) at Buffalo (6-5) Line: Bills by 6.5 Facts: The 49ers, 0-6 straight up (and against the line) in "jet lag" games in 2007-08, are the fourth West Coast...

Best of 'The Best': American anthology series offers good writing a second chance to get noticed

Not just very good; not merely outstanding. Still, the “Best American” series published by Houghton Mifflin always annoys me initially, even as I snap up each year’s editions with reckless glee, running a twitchy index finger...

Struggles often follow success for NFL coaches

McCarthy in the same boat as Belichick, others By Tom Pelissero • for The Northwestern • November 28, 2008 GREEN BAY — John Fox has been in Mike McCarthy's shoes. A late-season surge in Year 1 set up a highly successful second...

From the bottom to the top, here's how the SWAC stacks up this year

By Josh Moon • November 27, 2008 Last year around this time, I tried out the first SWAC-themed First and 10. No. 10, Alabama State: Picking the worst SWAC team this year is like trying to pick the person responsible for...

Andy Staples: Why Notre Dame has fallen behind in quest for talent

With its tough admission standards, Notre Dame can't admit many top players The Irish simply can't compete with the likes of Florida, Alabama and USC South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier swoops in and lands former commits Notre...

Hinton: Leave us alone, NASCAR bashers

They lurk under the cloak of ignorance. They strike with the precision of a 12-gauge shotgun sprayed from 100 yards. They laugh at us. They mock us. They are the NASCAR bashers, and they are out of control, writes Ed Hinton.

Suspect in mall shooting arrested in Portland

Police in Portland today arrested the 21-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting a 16-year-old boy and wounding a second teen Saturday at the Westfield Southcenter mall. By Christine Clarridge and Sara Jean Green Seattle...

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