Len Dawson

Ever since Roberto Alomar spit on I umpire John Hirsch-beck in 1996, major league umps have adhered to a zero-tolerance policy on physical contact. If a player or manager lays a finger on an ump, he's gone in less...

THE STEELERS' GLORY DAYSThank you for Peter King's essay about the Pittsburgh Steelers' super years (The Steel Age, Jan. 22). As a youngster in the San Francisco Bay Area, I became caught up in the Raiders-Steelers...

For 58 minutes the game grinds on as the teams probe each other's weaknesses, trying to establish a ground game to make the passing attack work, or a passing game to make the ground attack work, take your pick. Then...

For the last 11 years no other team in professional football has practiced its art with the consistent success of the Oakland Raiders, whose 103-40-11 record for the period is the NFL's best. Yet Pro Football's...

•Mark Duncan, director of player personnel for the Los Angeles Rams: "Ohio State is loaded this year. They're so good they could even finish third or fourth in the Big Eight."