Joe Horn

The delayed chaos of free agency in the National Football League kicked off Tuesday afternoon, and the Indianapolis Colts have been just as busy as any team around. Reports of the Colts first acquisition surfaced Tuesday morning when third-year veteran...

TV SPORTS SATURDAY Auto Racing-NASCAR Sprint Cup, Brickyard 400 final practice, 9 a.m. (ESPN2); NASCAR Nationwide Series, Kroger 200 practice, 10:30 a.m. (ESPN2); NASCAR Sprint Cup, Brickyard 400 pole qualifying, 1 p.m. (ESPN2); NASCAR Nationwide...

In a week when Brian Billick compared the New Orleans Saints to Mother Teresa, the Ravens coach turned out to be the miracle worker. With Billick bringing new life to a moribund offense along with an air of unpredictability in his first game as the team'...

We've reached the point in the season when roster depth becomes vital. Relying solely on your starters to get you to the playoffs is as risky as sending your kids to summer camp at Neverland. It's hard to imagine a roster that wasn't compromised this...

To win his first 13 games again this year, Peyton Manning, the conscientious Indianapolis quarterback, will have to beat better teams than he met last year. But he can win most of the time if he plays as he did opening night, when he came out as an...

It's time for the baseball winter meetings, live from Vegas, starring (still) Newsday baseball columnist Ken Davidoff. I can't remember whether I've told this story before, but . . . I never have been more happy to not be a......

There was a game. Well, actually, too many games. Too many for Mark Clayton to cite one above the others. Certainly not enough time to chronicle them all, not with less than three hours until the once-in-a-lifetime event Clayton and Mark Duper had come...

It's New Orleans this week. Home of paper-bag-wearing fans, the Neville and Marsalis clans, crawfish Po' Boys, Girls Gone Wild and Super Bowl XX. Bears 46, Patriots 10. Grab your beignets and café au lait. Aiee! This game's in Champaign, I'm told....

A Sunday that began with hope drawn from a week-ago win over the once-hated Green Bay Packers ended as many have lately for the Bears at Soldier Field--in ignominy. But this time it was worse. In a season of lows, a new one was reached. At the end of...

Two lost fumbles. An interception. Ten penalties for 91 yards. A 20-point deficit. The pain of it all. Hearkening back to yesteryear, the New Orleans Saints were giving their fans reason to reach for those never-to-be-forgotten paper bags. But despite...

Standing on the sideline with his team down 20-0, New Orleans coach Jim Haslett turned to quarterback Aaron Brooks and said, "Are you scared?" Brooks, a fourth-year player out of Virginia, laughed and replied: "Please. We're going to win this game." Two...