Tommy Maddox

Homer Smith dies at 79; former UCLA assistant football coach

2011-04-12 21:03:00

Homer Smith, who served three stints as a UCLA football assistant coach and may have been college's most intellectually gifted offensive mind, died Sunday in Tuscaloosa, Ala., after a long battle with cancer. He was 79. Smith, who spent 37 of his 39...

Weis Blew It

2005-10-19 00:00:00

When onetime NFL coaches Pete Carroll of USC and Charlie Weis of Notre Dame were cranking up last week for the football game of the year — college or pro — Weis apparently confided to at least three newspaper reporters: "I own Pete Carroll."...

The Injury Threat

2005-10-12 00:00:00

With Ben Roethlisberger at quarterback and with their new interest in passing, the Pittsburgh Steelers had become the NFL's team to beat this season in the run for the Super Bowl after his passes had been the principal weapon in a dramatic 24-22 win...

Featured players

2006-03-30 00:00:00

IN the big inning, there was Koufax. Baseball cradled in his left hand, his flinty eyes staring down another strikeout victim, he was the quintessential Los Angeles sports superstar of the mid-20th century, a larger-than-life mythic figure to a city...

Peyton vs. Big Ben

2004-12-29 00:00:00

Almost certainly, the most important football game of the season — the AFC championship game, which some folks are sure to call the real Super Bowl — will be played outdoors on what could well be the coldest day of the winter in Pittsburgh...

Newest 49er Weapon

2003-11-19 00:00:00

The San Francisco 49ers' new leader, Tim Rattay, in his second NFL start, continued as a big-play quarterback Monday night with possibly the 49ers' longest-ever series of well-placed long and short passes except for some of John Brodie's long ago. To...

24 Top Passers

2003-10-15 00:00:00

With a quarterback named Jake Delhomme, the unbeaten Carolina Panthers (5-0) will entertain a preseason Super Bowl favorite next Sunday, the Tennessee Titans (4-2), whose passer, Steve McNair, proved again in NFL Week 6 that he's an all-pro candidate....

Chargers Own First Place

2002-10-22 00:00:00

With quarterback Brian Griese seemingly in sharp comeback form, the Denver Broncos will face Super Bowl quarterback Tom Brady at New England Sunday in the AFC Game of the Week. But regardless of how well they play, the Broncos won't be able to dislodge...

Vick's The One

2002-10-29 00:00:00

The time may already be here when it's possible to think of Michael Vick, the Atlanta Falcons' young quarterback, as the finest football player ever born. In only his ninth start as a pro, Vick, a smooth-throwing lefty, will show the Baltimore Ravens...

A New Kind of Quarterback

2004-11-10 00:00:00

The Pittsburgh Steelers, suddenly the best football team in the land, can't have an undefeated season this year — they've already lost once — but they can have an undefeated quarterback. He is Ben Roethlisberger, a jumbo-sized Joe Montana-type...

The Top Five

2005-01-05 00:00:00

As the 2005 playoffs arrive to put an end to an NFL regular season famous for widespread parity, one dominating question is obvious: How did five of the 32 pro clubs manage to rise so far above the crowd? The best answer is that five unique players...

Patriots Far in Front

2004-09-01 00:00:00

As of the 21st century, passer Tom Brady and pass-offense enthusiast Bill Belichick are on board to succeed the Joe Montanas and Joe Namaths and the Vince Lombardis and Bill Walshes who in the 20th century topped the NFL. Since the 2000 season, when...

Tommy Maddox was drafted in the first round of the 1992 draft to be John Elway 's successor. That didn't quite work out. Thirteen years later he ended up winning a super bowl backing up Ben Roethlisberger. In between he played for the now defunct XFL and AFL. Oh, and he's 40 today. (Photo by Jamie

2012-08-23 12:52:00

Ravens defensive end Tony Weaver, who had two sacks in the extra period, brings down Tommy Maddox to end the Steelers' first drive of overtime. The Ravens sacked Maddox six times overall.

2005-11-20 00:00:00

Bart Scott, here recovering a fumble by Steelers QB Tommy Maddox in the fourth quarter, also sacked Maddox twice and batted down a pass.

2005-11-20 00:00:00