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JOHNNY UNITAS You could justify celebrating John Unitas for leading his Baltimore Colts to the 23-17 overtime victory over the New York Giants in the 1958 championship game, the one that turned out to be the NFL's coming-out party. Or you could cite the three MVP awards, the 10 Pro Bowl games, the unfathomable record of touchdown passes in 47 straight games (people come closer to Joe DiMaggio's streak than to this one: next best after Unitas is Dan Marino, with 30). But Unitas' influence--vast and beyond challenge--is this: he was the first modern...
...Quarterback Matt Rader threw for 260 yards and two touchdowns, and tailback Jim Finn--the last player taken in the 1999 NFL Draft--ran for 106 yards and three scores...
Well, well, well. New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has come crawling back to the Bay State. After a seemingly complete deal that would ship the NFL team off to Connecticut was entering its final stages, Kraft realized what everyone else in Massachusetts had known all along--the Hartford Patriots could never...
SPORTS GAMES Pick any fast-moving sport, and there's a popular, highly realistic, multiplayer console game to go with it: NFL BLITZ, NCAA FINAL FOUR, FIFA '99 soccer. The teams, the players, the camera angles and even the commentary are exactly the same as the ones you see on TV. What's the harm in a little added interactivity...
...billionaire real estate developer, and his partners have offered $800 million to buy the National Football League's Washington Redskins franchise. The bid was not only $200 million better than anyone else's but would be the largest price ever for a North American sports team. Still, the NFL owners don't seem to want Milstein's money. Although Milstein says he has restructured the financing to meet league guidelines, sources say the offer is too highly leveraged. It's an ironic argument from a group of older white men who mainly got their teams for a song way back...