Bronko Nagurski

On Sunday, Texas Stadium in Irving will be demolished by implosion. On Monday, the Minnesota Twins will christen Target Field, their new home. Meanwhile, the Cubs are tinkering with Wrigley Field, including plans to place a large Toyota sign in left-...

Capsules courtesy of the Hartford Colonials; players In alphabetical order: CHRIS BAKER, Defensive Lineman Height: 6-2; Weight: 329; DOB: Oct. 8, 1987 College: Hampton; How Acquired: Free Agent 2010 PRO CAREER: Hole-plugging defensive lineman joins...

Ever wonder if you went kind of crazy and nobody noticed? Back to that nutty notion in a second, for I've got wings to prepare -- turkey wings for the Big Game. "Why turkey wings?" you ask. "Aren't they tougher than Bronko Nagurski's helmet?" Well,...

After years of playing a sport in Illinois (with which) few are familiar with, Tori Karsten now finds herself in a field hockey hotbed. Named the state's top prep senior at Oak Park-River Forest, the college sophomore has emerged as one of the best...

Slingin' Sammy Baugh, a record-setting passer, punter and defensive back who led the Washington Redskins to two National Football League championships in 16 seasons and whose wide-open style of play helped usher professional football into the modern era,...

As the 1920 football season began, professional teams faced three pressing problems involving players: Salaries were rising quickly, players were jumping from one team to another and teams were using college players who had yet to graduate. These...

Stephen King is a writer with an eye for the grotesque, never at a loss for a strange way to make somebody die. Scott Hicks, director of "Shine" and "Snow Falling on Cedars," is a filmmaker of noticeable, at times overwhelming, gentility. They do not seem...

Minnesota excels at producing unlikely pairs. In the field of literature there is the dissimilar duo of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis (Riviera and prairie); in politics, Eugene McCarthy and Harold Stassen; in music, Bob Dylan and the Artist...

The mighty Chicago Bears came into a cavernous deep freeze called Yankee stadium here today and left as football's greatest enigma, humiliated by the New York Giants, 47 to 7, in the National league's 24th annual championship playoff. Long after the last...

Washington's Redskins, skimming over the frozen turf of Wrigley Field on the wings of Sammy Baugh's unerring passes, won the professional football championship of the world yesterday by defeating the Chicago Bears, 28 to 21, in the fifth annual National...