Bill Walsh

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...

SEATTLE (AP) - Mike Holmgren is happily leaving the job he's loved and mastered for the last 17 years in the NFL. The reason is on the second floor of the Pike Market Medical Clinic. His wife, Kathy, a registered nurse who specializes is treating...

The husband of a missing teacher made an emotional appeal Tuesday morning for her safe return, speaking to reporters outside Leah Hirschel Walsh's family home in Rockville Centre. The husband, William Walsh, stood in his in-laws' driveway at around 11 a....

The family of murder defendant William Walsh Jr. has rallied to his defense, raising enough money to hire a well-known private attorney to represent him. With financial help from extended family members, Walsh's family has hired William Petrillo of...

One good thing about life in Los Angeles is that on fall Sundays, there are three NFL games on network TV — including two at the same time — as there were last Sunday morning, when, in the same three-hour span, L.A. football fans could compare...

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....

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.....

Known as the dean of American pro football writers, Bob Oates has been long known as a strong advocate of pass offense, the subject of this two-part series. The second part follows. The significant advantages of passing over running have been...

With Bill Belichick in charge and with Tom Brady continuing as the NFL's most competent quarterback, the New England Patriots are again the best team in football as another five-month race to the Super Bowl begins this week. There are, altogether, only...

Mud turned to a crust and then to smelly dust Saturday on the downtown streets of this battered city, where talk of recovery from Hurricane Ivan was more ambitious than simply putting things back the way they were. "There is so much to be rebuilt that...

At Indianapolis next Sunday, in the AFC night game of the year, the Oakland Raiders aren't likely to be bothered by the same thing that troubled them against Dallas last Sunday, when they couldn't take an 0-4 team seriously. They weren't up for the...

Coaching seems to be the decisive variable in the development of a successful football team, although, in New Orleans as well as in Philadelphia on Sunday, that might not be apparent. One game doesn't make a career. The odds are that Jim Haslett of...