Adam Vinatieri

SAN DIEGO--Consider the Chargers an honorary member of the AFC South. For the Colts, its visa versa in the AFC West. These would be just honorary distinctions reflecting the familiarity of these two teams separated by thousands of miles. Their recent...

INDIANAPOLIS--Don't dismiss this as melodrama. The Colts season stared them in the face Sunday night. "This is game we felt like we had to win," said head coach Tony Dungy. "We had already lost two games at home and we didn't want to lose another one."...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indianapolis Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri is the AFC special teams player of the week. Vinatieri's 52-yard field goal in the fourth quarter gave the Colts an 18-15 win over New England on Sunday night. The victory lifted...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - This time, Adam Vinatieri was right on from a lot farther out. Vinatieri, one of the most clutch kickers in NFL history, made a 51-yard field goal as time expired to lift Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts to a heart-stopping 23-...

Durbin's restaurant in Tinley Park: As the final minutes of the game ticked down, Maribeth Aguirre, 45, of Frankfort, sat with her arms folded over her chest and pain etched on her face. "It's been a roller coaster ride," she said. "It started great, but...

Unless you play in a league of Tibetan monks or with people whose surnames are Hilton, you aren't likely to assemble a dream team of Peyton Manning, LaDainian Tomlinson, Priest Holmes, Randy Moss and Antonio Gates in your fantasy draft. The most you can...

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...

In the end, they were a haggard, beaten bunch. The Bears were not stripped of their pride nor were they the authors of a performance that whitewashed all that had led to this moment in South Florida. No. nothing as severe as that. But the defense, so...

Congratulations and thank you to the WatchDog Man of the Day: Adam Vinatieri of the Colts. By kicking a game-winning field goal with three seconds left in regulation against the Vikings, Mr. Vinatieri saved me from the obligatory round of......

The key question about yesterday???s 31-3 Ravens??? blowout loss to Indianapolis is whether it was an anomaly or was that the Ravens team that many fans feared they would have to live with after a dismal preseason. No one knows......

ESPN's latest "Mt. Rushmore of Sports" release doesn't make much more sense to me than the last one. It appears Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Joe Namath and Manhasset's own Jim Brown will represent New York in this feature. I'm not......

Ravens coach Brian Billick tried to use tact and diplomacy in describing the loss, but his players were more direct. Some of the Ravens quit yesterday. End of story. End of season. The Ravens (8-8), a team searching for an identity and its first...