Roger Staubach

Super Bowl 2013: Five greatest Super Bowls of all time

2013-02-03 05:00:00

It's Super Bowl time again, and that can mean only one thing. Well, two things, actually. Overdone commercials and anticlimactic halftime entertainment. But will today's CBS telecast also bring out the best football? Perhaps. But the Ravens and 49ers...

What's your favorite Thanksgiving football memory?

2012-11-21 10:52:00

In addition to green bean casserole, giant balloons of cartoon characters and arguments with family members over who gets to pull the wishbone, football is a part of the Thanksgiving holiday for many people. Writers from around the Tribune Co. share...

Greatest sports figures in L.A. history, No. 18: Marcus Allen

2011-10-13 16:33:11

Summers with John Wooden

2010-06-13 00:00:00

For years, John Wooden ran basketball camps for kids during the Southern California summers. Two Times staffers recall their experiences with the legendary coach. ---- In 1975, I was an 11-year-old aspiring NBA player enrolled in John Wooden's...

It's All-Opinions day

2009-09-23 04:32:17

Game on: Pros and big-league politics

2008-11-19 00:00:00

Howard Cosell called it "rule No. 1 of the Jockocracy": the idea that sports and politics must never mix. This last election season though, that iron wall separating the two worlds wasn't merely breached, it was flattened. It has been little reported...

Pilot: Straight, Proud and Tall

2002-01-11 00:00:00

He was everyone's All-American gone to war. Tall, athletic, brainy and ramrod straight--in stature and in his march through life--Capt. Matthew W. Bancroft never took his eyes off the destination. When word came that Bancroft's tanker plane had gone down...

USC Aces High

2004-12-08 00:00:00

USC will be represented by two aces, Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart, in the top 10 of the NFL draft in the not too distant future, I'd say. Such a distinction doesn't happen every year. A runner like Bush, who has both rare speed and the rare ability to...

'Broadway Joe' Namath is a big fan of Baltimore's Joe Flacco

2013-01-19 13:46:00

While Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco has won some people with his play the past two weeks, Joe Namath’s mind had long been made up. He didn’t need to see Flacco out-shine Indianapolis Colts phenom Andrew Luck and outplay Denver Broncos future...

NFL: Ravens top Broncos in 2OT

2013-01-12 23:42:00

DENVER -- No matter where his season or his career might end, Joe Flacco will always have The Fling.� �And Peyton Manning will always have to live with that throw he made, too.� �Flacco’s desperation 70-yard touchdown pass to Jacoby Jones with...

Outrage about Musburger smacks of hypocrisy

2013-01-09 17:52:00

Fox held an NFL playoff conference call on Wednesday and the subject turned to Brent Musburger. Musburger received some criticism for going maybe one "whoa" too many when ESPN's cameras focused on Katherine Webb, the girlfriend of Alabama quarterback AJ...

Navy freshman QB Keenan Reynolds could keep Army at bay for years

2012-12-08 18:35:00

The beleaguered Black Knights of Army finally seemed poised to escape their recent past when freshman quarterback Keenan Reynolds gave them a deflating glimpse of Navy's brightening future. Reynolds, who picked the Midshipmen off the deck nine weeks ago...

NFL great Roger Staubach, a Hall-of-Fame quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, made the cover of Time in 1963 while playing for the Naval Academy. He won the 1963 Heisman Trophy at Navy as the nation's premier college football player.

2012-07-10 12:36:00

record with 161 yards receiving on four catches, including the deciding 64-yard reception with 3:02 left. (In the second quarter, Swann had made one of the most famous catches of the Super Bowl, a juggling, tumbling 53-yarder.

2012-01-31 18:05:59

1974: Cowboys 24, Redskins 23 In a game between the Cowboys and Redskins, rookie quarterback Clint Longley took over for injured star Roger Staubach to lead the Cowboys to an improbable comeback victory.

2011-11-18 12:51:54