Chris Williams

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - St. Louis Rams - INSIDE SLANT The Rams opened OTAs this week five weeks after the first phase of the offseason program began, and while optimism is high following last season's 7-8-1 record, quarterback Sam...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - St. Louis Rams - INSIDE SLANT Rams second-year guard Rokevious Watkins has been suspended for the first game of the 2013 season for violating the NFL Policy and Program for Substances of Abuse, the league confirmed...

NFL Team Report - St. Louis Rams - INSIDE SLANT Rams quarterback Sam Bradford was at practice Tuesday as the team held its first OTA of the offseason. But his mind was in Oklahoma City, his hometown, where the devastating tornado hit Monday afternoon....

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - St. Louis Rams - INSIDE SLANT They played together at West Virginia and lit up the scoreboard in the high-flying Mountaineers offense. Here they are again, wide receivers Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey as...

TODAY HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD  Aberdeen Central at Mark Wendelgass Invitational in Huron, 4 p.m.  Region 1B at Groton, 10 a.m. (Aberdeen Christian, Frederick, Grant-Deuel, Hitchcock-Tulare, Langford Area, Northwestern, Rosholt, Summit, Warner,...

TV SPORTS Hockey—IIHF World Championship, Preliminary Round, United States vs. Finland, Noon (NBCSN) Major League Baseball—Minnesota Twins at Boston Red Sox, 6 p.m. (ESPN, FXSP) NBA Basketball—Playoffs, Chicago Bulls at Miami Heat,...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - St. Louis Rams - INSIDE SLANT As the Rams concluded the 2013 draft, happy with the latest additions to one of the youngest rosters in the National Football League, they had to credit the results to a chain reaction...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - St. Louis Rams - INSIDE SLANT As the Rams concluded the 2013 draft, happy with the latest additions to one of the youngest rosters in the National Football League, there is one inescapable fact that helped the Rams...

The Bears started rebuilding the offense under new coach Marc Trestman in free agency and continued the process in the first round of the NFL draft Thursday night, but doing so with a player no one expected. Leaving Notre Dame tight end Tyler Eifert on...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - St. Louis Rams - INSIDE SLANT For the second consecutive year, the Rams ended up being wheelers and dealers in the first round of the draft. In 2012, the Rams first moved from the second overall pick to sixth in a...

Dressed comfortably for a long Thursday night in blue jeans and a Bears jacket, team Chairman George McCaskey entered Halas Hall and promptly placed a stack of 2013 pocket schedules on the receptionist's desk. How misleading. Nothing else the Bears...

This class looks pretty enticing to a tackle-needy NFL. Three tackles figure to be top 10 picks. The talent drops off a little after that, but a number of others have enough ability to be starters pretty quickly. As many as a dozen tackles could be chosen...