St. Louis Rams

What may be the best running attack in professional football history was displayed last week by the San Francisco 49ers against a defensively bolstered Los Angeles Rams team and was good enough to win by a solitary...

The Detroit Lions, National League football champions the past two years, are out this season to do the unprecedented—win three championships in a row. In preseason games they looked lethal (top, opposite), but so...

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Columnist Dick Hyland, a great football player in his own day, takes a hard look at the masked faces of the modern stars and wonders what kind of mayhem is taking place on the professional gridiron