Butkus, Dick (1942—)
If a Hollywood scriptwriter were authoring a football movie and needed to conjure up an ideal name for a hard-nosed middle linebacker who breakfasted on nails and quarterba...
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In 2006
Brian
Urlacher
, middle linebacker of the National Football League (NFL) Chicago Bears, made good on the promise that he showed when he was named the league's Defensive Player of the Year ...
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Today is Saturday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2006. There are 22 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 9, 1854, Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem, "The Charge of the Light Brig...
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Shoved to one side of a shelf behind Gary Knight's desk is a Dick Butkus bobblehead doll.Butkus, all 6 inches of him, sits in the middle of a shrine to the Bears' Super Bowl opponents, the Indianap...
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Coach Lovie Smith thumbed through the Indianapolis Colts press guide on a three-hour flight that delivered the Bears from the cold of Chicago to the warm comfort of Florida _ a trip that landed the...
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Sports games may be perennial best-sellers _ and cash cows for their publishers, especially EA Sports _ but even their most die-hard fans will acknowledge that they're kind of predictable.Those of ...
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NEW YORK, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Hall of Famer Jim Brown says
the New England Patriots will reign supreme in NFL history
should they complete a perfect Super Bowl run. Brown, the former Cleveland Brow...
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Except for the occasional holding penalty that negates a big play, offensive linemen are the anonymous creatures on NFL teams. That makes Bruce Matthews' immediate election to the Pro Football Hall...
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