Alex Karras

It was one of Hollywood’s biggest punches – when Mongo slugs a horse in the classic comedy “Blazing Saddles.” It was football player-turned-actor Alex Karras who threw that punch. Sadly, the former Lions All-Pro defensive lineman...

PREDATORS-RED WINGS Datsyuk, Franzen lead Red Wings over Predators 5-2 DETROIT (AP) — Pavel Datsyuk had a goal and two assists and the Detroit Red Wings moved a step closer to their 22nd straight playoff appearance with a 5-2 win over the...

DETROIT (AP) — Sam Williams, the former Detroit Lions defensive end and "Fearsome Foursome" member of the Los Angeles Rams, has died. He was 82. Williams' son said his father died Thursday following an illness at St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia,...

DETROIT (AP) — Sam Williams, the former Detroit Lions defensive end who also played for the Rams and Falcons, has died. He was 82. Williams' son said his father died Thursday following an illness at St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, a Detroit...

He served his time Omar Kelly Sun Sentinel Gregg Williams embarrassed the NFL by serving as the architect of a violent bounty system that has been the undercurrent of football for decades. He paid the harshest penalty for Bountygate. He has served...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Penn State child sex abuse scandal was selected as the sports story of the year by U.S. editors and news directors in an annual vote conducted by The Associated Press. The news broke in November 2011, with a grand jury report...

Chicago has a TV choice to make tonight, between a presidential debate on foreign policy and that Bears-Lions game at Soldier Field on “Monday Night Football.” And despite what you may have told yourself, the fact that you have a digital...

INDIANAPOLIS - His post-game message was a thank you on many levels. For one it was of praise for NAIA top-ranked Marian's marathon 45-38 victory over seventh-ranked St. Francis (IND) Saturday afternoon at St. Vincent Health Field. But for Ted Karras...

Alex Karras, an All-Pro defensive tackle for the Detroit Lions who later worked as a "Monday Night Football" co-host and parlayed his hulking strength into a Hollywood acting career, died Wednesday. He was 77. Karras died at his Los Angeles home, his...

DETROIT (AP) — Alex Karras was one of the NFL's most feared defensive tackles throughout the 1960s, a player who hounded quarterbacks and bulled past opposing linemen. And yet, to many people he will always be the lovable dad from the 1980s...

Alex Karras, an All-Pro defensive tackle for the Detroit Lions who later worked as a "Monday Night Football" co-host and parlayed his hulking strength into a Hollywood acting career, died Wednesday. He was 77. Karras died at his Los Angeles home, his...

LOS ANGELES -- Former NFL player and actor Alex Karras died Wednesday in Los Angeles, a family spokesman said. He was 77. "After a heroic fight with kidney disease, heart disease, dementia and for the last two years, stomach cancer," Karras died at his...