Keith Traylor

Q: Don't you think Dave Hyde is crazy for suggesting that the Dolphins should start John Beck? He would get killed playing behind that weak offensive line. Brad Nir, Weehawken, NJ. A: "I would never call my esteemed cohort crazy, maybe a tad eccentric....

Tim Bowens could fend off 350-pound blockers with his massive arms. But in the end he was stopped by pain in the back. Arguably the franchise's strongest and most durable defensive lineman retired after 11 seasons with the Dolphins."I am grateful to...

Former Dolphins tight end Jim Mandich, who broadcasts games for WQAM (560-AM), answers readers' questions in Sun-Sentinel.com's weekly Q&A sessions with former Dolphins. Q: When will Wayne Huizenga start getting the heat he deserves? All I hear is what a...

Former Dolphins linebacker/defensive end Kim Bokamper, who played for the Dolphins from 1977-85, answers readers' questions in Sun-Sentinel.com's weekly Q&A sessions with former Dolphins. Q: Hey Kim, it's great the Dolphins won a game, but it's time...

Before Bears quarterback Kordell Stewart jogged off Invesco Field on Sunday after the Bears' 19-10 victory over the Broncos, he acknowledged the adulation above him with his patented toothy smile. That's the one Stewart brought to Chicago and hadn't...

A look at how each player on the 2003 roster came to be a Bear. Thirty-two of the 53 players on the active roster (60.4%) were either draftees of the Bears or undrafted free agents signed with the Bears. Only one player (R.W. McQuarters) was acquired via...

Monday in lake Forest, Brian Urlacher's defensive teammates were still talking about his leap over Atlanta running back Warrick Dunn Sunday. Late in the third quarter with the Bears up 14-13, Urlacher charged in on a blitz. Dunn tried to block the...

It's New Orleans this week. Home of paper-bag-wearing fans, the Neville and Marsalis clans, crawfish Po' Boys, Girls Gone Wild and Super Bowl XX. Bears 46, Patriots 10. Grab your beignets and café au lait. Aiee! This game's in Champaign, I'm told....

The Monday following their sixth straight loss, Bears players were hardly in a talking mood. The few that were at Halas Hall to explain why everything could go so wrong in the second half of a the 19-13 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles repeated familiar...

Say goodbye to the Detroit Lions and San Diego Chargers. Real football returns to Soldier Field this Sunday as the Bears play host to the St. Louis Rams. The Bears have had success against the run at times this season, but today clearly is their...

Here we go again. Another Monday night experience for the Bears. Players always say Monday Night Football is a chance to prove something to your peers, a chance for the entire country to watch you play. This Bears team is out to prove they're not one...

I wonder if the Bears feel differently now on passing up the opportunity to obtain Bledsoe? --Bill Thieben, Kewanee, Ill. That's an easy told-you-so, but it's oversimplistic. Bears fans would be shrieking if he was getting sacked behind a line that...