Bill Walsh

Stanford hits a wall at Notre Dame

2012-10-14 00:00:00

Stanford ripped a page out of the Titanic-era playbook to help Notre Dame advance another precious step on what is suddenly becoming an improbable national title run. Football games a century ago were brutish struggles with heavy emphasis on gouging...

R.C. Owens dies at 77; 49ers 'alley oop' receiver

2012-06-24 00:00:00

R.C. Owens had an up-and-down career as a receiver for the San Francisco 49ers. The ball went up, and Owens routinely came down with it. Owens, whose leaping catches became his signature and introduced the term "alley oop" into the sports lexicon,...

Tom Williams resigns as Yale football coach amid Rhodes scandal

2011-12-21 16:33:56

Should Jim Caldwell have been fired by the Indianapolis Colts?

2012-01-18 16:33:58

Al Davis dies at 82; Oakland Raiders owner transformed team

2011-10-09 00:00:00

Al Davis, the tough-minded owner of the Oakland Raiders who transformed a failing team into a three-time Super Bowl champion and one of the most successful franchises in professional football only to preside over its dramatic decline in recent years, died...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 'On the Shoulders of Giants' celebrates the Harlem Rens

2011-05-31 16:35:34

Question of the day: Who would you have coach the Dallas Cowboys next season? [Updated]

2010-11-09 16:33:06

As the NFL draft nears, opinions on Cam Newton are all over the map

2011-04-26 17:36:00

Merlin Olsen dies at 69; Hall of Fame football star later became actor

2010-03-12 00:00:00

Merlin Olsen, a Hall of Fame defensive lineman with the Los Angeles Rams who was a charter member of the team's famed Fearsome Foursome, then made a remarkably smooth transition into careers in broadcasting and acting, has died. He was 69. Olsen died...

Leinart Has Fast Start

2006-10-17 00:00:00

Matt Leinart so far in college and pro football has made only one important mistake. At USC, when drafted, Leinart agreed to play for the Arizona Cardinals. He would have been better off to sit out a year and re-enter the draft, playing for anyone else....

Requiem: 2007 passings of note

2007-12-29 00:00:00

Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...

Cellphone law may not make roads safer

2008-03-25 00:00:00

As California joins five other states in requiring drivers to use hands-free devices when talking on cellphones, an increasing body of research suggests the legislation will accomplish little. The risk doesn't stem from whether one or both hands are on...

Two brilliant European filmmakers. NFL coach Bill Walsh died the same day, but it seems unlikely that he ever met them.

2009-06-26 06:57:56

San Francisco Coach Bill Walsh is carried off the field after the 49ers beat the Cincinnati Bengals , 26-21, in Super Bowl XVI on Jan 24, 1982, at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich. San Francisco quarterback Joe Montana would guide the 49ers on a late-scoring drive to earn MVP honors for the game.

2009-01-13 13:00:02

Bill Walsh (left) and Don Shula.

2007-11-07 09:24:57