Dan Rooney

Mourners said goodbye to John Unitas yesterday, evoking memories of a steely, Hall of Fame quarterback and a tender father who stayed close to his coal-shoveling roots. Cardinal William H. Keeler said he found "sanctity" in the man who threw footballs as...

PALM BEACH, Fla. - The start of this year's owners meetings was a mixture of smiles, tears and goodbyes for Art Modell. In his final league-wide event, the Ravens' outgoing owner was saluted at two meetings - the opening session before all league...

CHICAGO -- Ravens owner Art Modell let bygones be bygones and helped his former friend and business partner, Al Lerner, win the bidding war for the Cleveland Browns to become the 31st NFL owner last night. Even though there was a major rift between the...

NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue indicated yesterday that he will take no action against Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis if he's acquitted on murder charges in Atlanta. When Tagliabue was asked at the end of the annual two-day May NFL owners meeting here...

The entire week leading up to Super Bowl XL, the buzz surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers swirled around large men with gigantic personalities: Ben Roethlisberger, the quarterback who goes by Big Ben; the massive Jerome Bettis, who answers to Bus; and...

Decades before the tortuous franchise move and the triumph of a Super Bowl, Ravens owner Art Modell's emotional ties with football became rooted in Roy Lumpkin. At age 9, Modell walked a couple of miles to save on car fare and squeezed out a quarter to...

Two weeks after his personal Super Bowl moment -- pulling the NFL back from the brink of a labor meltdown -- Paul Tagliabue has decided to walk away from the game. Tagliabue, the league's commissioner for more than 16 years, announced Monday he plans...

According to reports, New York Congressman Peter King rejected an offer from the Obama administration to take on the role as U.S. ambassador to Ireland back in January. Sources say Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel contacted King, the week before the...

It's been almost a year since Pennsylvania's Clean Indoor Air Act banned smoking in most public buildings in the Commonwealth. Now one York County township wants to take it a step further. Spring Garden Township commissioners voted unanimously...