Shaun King

The Bears need a quarterback. With injury-prone Jim Miller and Chris Chandler and ineffectual Henry Burris on the roster, it's safe to say the team will pursue a veteran QB this off-season. Whether he turns into just a quarterback or the quarterback,...

Strangely, as a first-year AFC coach, Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts is doing the same things that got him feared and then fired in an NFC town, Tampa. At both places, Dungy rose to notoriety as a leader who had one of the NFL's finest and most...

The point that NFL games have been efficiently officiated again this fall, as usual, is compelling. And I'd say that on the whole it's true. At the same time it is obvious that there have been too many penalty calls this season. Waves of falling flags...

With quarterback Brian Griese seemingly in sharp comeback form, the Denver Broncos will face Super Bowl quarterback Tom Brady at New England Sunday in the AFC Game of the Week. But regardless of how well they play, the Broncos won't be able to dislodge...

Rookie quarterback Patrick Ramsey will make his first start for the Washington Redskins on his home field Sunday against the charging New Orleans Saints. And again, the football fans of Washington, the best sports town in the NFL, will be expecting big...

When you think back over the NFL's just-over regular season, one thing to keep in mind, if you're a California sports fan, is that Cade McNown put the Rams in the playoffs. Though neither adored nor even appreciated by most Midwest sports fans or media,...

Coaching seems to be the decisive variable in the development of a successful football team, although, in New Orleans as well as in Philadelphia on Sunday, that might not be apparent. One game doesn't make a career. The odds are that Jim Haslett of...

They have been fond of saying they were the best 0-4, 1-7, 2-8 team in the league, which doesn't go very far when you continue to lose. Now at 3-8 after Sunday's 13-10 victory over Tampa Bay at Soldier Field, the Bears can keep that claim going with a...

Two teams with a long history of pounding the ball into the line on running plays--college football's Oklahoma Sooners and the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers--have apparently changed direction: • In Sunday's game at Atlanta, the Buccaneers will get an...

The country is about to see why Minnesota Coach Dennis Green raves about his big, new, young quarterback, Daunte Culpepper, who is a unique runner-passer rising 6 feet 4 and weighing 255 pounds or more. If Culpepper can solve the Tampa Bay Buccaneers...

The 0-2 start is not the shocking part. An 0-2 start was considered, discussed, even justified in advance. Two road games against tough division opponents. Tampa in high humidity. Yep, an 0-2 start, under certain circumstances, was understandable, maybe...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were two minutes and 39 yards from the Super Bowl before the offense backpedaled its way out of the NFC title game. An untimely sack coupled with an unfavorable call by the replay official wiped out any chance for a heroic...