Hardy Nickerson

Back in the summer of 2000, I, and roughly 300 other NFL rookies, were instructed to put condoms on bananas. That's right, the NFL wanted to teach us how to properly use a prophylactic. Some guys didn't even do it, while others held up the finished...

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The winning drive bordered on the improbable. The comeback restored faith in a suffocating defense.Rallying around a 38-year-old backup quarterback and a series of fourth-quarter stands, the Ravens raced back from an 11-point deficit to edge the...

The winning drive bordered on the improbable. The comeback restored faith in a suffocating defense. Rallying around a 38-year-old backup quarterback and a series of fourth-quarter stands, the Ravens raced back from an 11-point deficit to edge the...

The AFC South is the Lost Division. The Indianapolis Colts, who used to play in Baltimore, are farther north than Cincinnati or Baltimore of the AFC North. The Tennessee Titans used to be the Houston Oilers. The Houston Texans have now filled the void as...

In an early comparison of off-season personnel changes, the Green Bay Packers lost to the New Orleans Saints by worse than Sunday's 35-20 score. By adding defensive end Joe Johnson from the Saints and middle linebacker Hardy Nickerson from Jacksonville,...

The Bears coming off their first win in two months face an angry Packers team. Green Bay has lost two straight and last week's little post-game brouhaha between Warren Sapp and Packers coach Mike Sherman surely has fired them up even more. Brett Favre...

Suddenly, the Bears are in need of a designated driver to get them to the playoffs. They relinquished the driver's seat in the NFC Central title race Sunday by losing 13-10 to Tampa Bay, which left them with a 7-6 record and Green Bay and Detroit...

It was neither a thing of beauty nor a monstrosity. It was something in the middle. And, after all, that is where most folks figure the Bears to finish this season. But for opening day at Soldier Field, the Bears could not have done much more to energize...