Bill Walsh

XM Radio's "60/20" with James Carville and Luke Russert will pay tribute to Luke's father, Tim, in a special, commercial-free, two-hour show debuting at noon Friday. The focus will be Tim Russert's connection to sports, including clips of his interviews.....

The question was innocuous enough. But it struck a nerve with Marc Trestman during his lengthy introductory news conference in January. "Based on the pieces you have in place, do you anticipate any major changes by bringing in a new defensive...

In the event Marc Trestman and Jay Cutler do not always speak the same language, the Bears have hired a translator. We can be assured Matt Cavanaugh can converse in Trestmanish as well as Cutlerese. What's more, he presumably understands whatever sign...

NEW ORLEANS — America looks at Jim Harbaugh and sees one of the NFL's brightest and most charismatic coaches who wears the same black 49ers sweatshirt and hat every day leading up to Super Bowl XLVII. Chicago still sees No. 4. America hears...

NEW ORLEANS — The world's next great football coach has been on a roll this week, speaking of incorporating an enthusiasm unknown to mankind, building a beaver dam, lacking a "tweeter," living a childhood that was the opposite of the song Cat's in...

SAN FRANCISCO — Like many first-time parents, 49ers chief executive officer Jed York shares baby pictures on the Internet. See Jaxon Edward York, welcomed into the world Oct. 27 by Jed and his wife Danielle, wearing 49ers baby booties or a...

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...

Tom Williams resigned as the Bulldogs coach Wednesday as the university continues to investigate whether he lied on his resume about being a Rhodes candidate while attending Stanford....

Patch.com reports: The Oswego District 308 School Board voted Monday night to open Murphy Junior High School in Plainfield for the 2012-13 school year. Board …...

Jim Caldwell was fired after three years as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts on Tuesday after a 2-14 season without star quarterback Peyton Manning. Should he have lost his job under such circumstances?...

Writers from around the Tribune Co. weigh in on the topic. Check back throughout the day for more responses and feel free to leave a comment of your own. Keith Groller, The Morning Call Just for comic effect, I’d probably......