It was Mike Ditka who made it happen, who put aside the wisecracks and snide cracks and thawed a feud with Buddy Ryan that Ryan said he never knew existed. But it was Ryan who allowed it to happen, ...

For Mike Singletary, the road to Super Bowl XX didn’t begin 40 years ago. It began 41 years ago, at the end of the 1984 season, with the future Hall of Fame linebacker crying on the sidelines at the ...

And Singletary did so because he didn’t want to answer to Ryan on Monday about why he made the wrong call. “The defense was a team almost all by itself,” Singletary said. “We kind of operated as if ...

Former NFL head coach and influential defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan died Tuesday. He was 85. Ryan, who was outspoken and coached in the NFL for 26 seasons, was known forbuilding some of football's ...