Jamal Anderson

The numbers are staggering, like a stiff arm to the face mask. Ray Rice rushed for 4,377 yards in his first four NFL seasons, all before the Ravens running back had celebrated his 25th birthday. His 2,068 yards from scrimmage led the league in 2011. He...

Dan Reeves finally delivered on his promise Sunday afternoon. He gave Michael Vick the ball at a crucial point of a regular-season game. A coach whose play-calling is often criticized for being too predictable, Reeves' decision to use the element of...

(WGN-AM)- Three years after being battered by an uncle, a 3-year-old girl has died from her injuries. The Will County coroner says it's homicide. Her uncle Jamal Anderson was convicted of battery in the incident, but now may face murder charges. He is...

The Ravens displayed more desire and passion in one game yesterday than they did in the previous three seasons. First, running back Errict Rhett talked trash and accidentally screamed into the official's microphone on the field that he was "running...

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...

If you don't think anybody can win the AFC East, you missed last season, when the Patriots bounced from worst to first. This is the only division in which all four teams have made the playoffs at least once in the last three years. The 3-13 Bills, the...

The final scenes from "Titanic" come to mind. Frantic, desperate souls, knowing they are about to perish and yet still clinging to whatever they can find. A final prayer vigil. A sinking liner. Each other. These are the 3-8 Bears. And that was the...

Steve Bisciotti will take over as sole owner of the Ravens on April 8, when he will purchase the remaining 51 percent of the team from Art Modell for $325 million. At 43, he will become the second-youngest owner in the NFL. In his lengthiest interview...

The Bears went to Atlanta with a case of attitude, perhaps difficult to understand of a team that hasn't won very often since the mid-1990s. After Sunday's 31-3 mauling of the Falcons, in which they scored those 31 points in the final 32 minutes, they...